Population and density

The map shows density (people per km²), the chart the total number of inhabitants, within present-day borders.

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World map: Population and density, 2024 — Map 2024. Source: Gapminder (CC BY 4.0), d’après ONU, HMD, Maddison et autres · areas: mledoze/countries (ODbL).

In 2024, 169 countries have a value. Highest: India (1.45 bn), China (1.42 bn), United States (345 M). Lowest: Vanuatu (328 k), Iceland (393 k), Bahamas (401 k). World (total): 8.14 bn. France: 66.5 M (23rd of 169).

Country ranking in 2024

Rank	Country	Value
1	India its history →	1.45 bn
2	China	1.42 bn
3	United States	345 M
4	Indonesia	283 M
5	Pakistan	251 M
6	Nigeria	233 M
7	Brazil	212 M
8	Bangladesh	174 M
9	Russia	145 M
10	Ethiopia	132 M
11	Mexico	131 M
12	Japan	124 M
13	Egypt	117 M
14	Philippines	116 M
15	Congo - Kinshasa	109 M
16	Vietnam	101 M
17	Iran	91.6 M
18	Türkiye	87.5 M
19	Germany its history →	84.6 M
20	Thailand	71.7 M
21	United Kingdom	69.1 M
22	Tanzania	68.6 M
23	France its history →	66.5 M
24	South Africa	64 M
25	Italy	59.3 M
26	Kenya	56.4 M
27	Myanmar (Burma)	54.5 M
28	Colombia	52.9 M
29	South Korea	51.7 M
30	Sudan	50.4 M
31	Uganda	50 M
32	Spain its history →	47.9 M
33	Algeria	46.8 M
34	Iraq	46 M
35	Argentina its history →	45.7 M
36	Afghanistan	42.6 M
37	Yemen	40.6 M
38	Canada	39.7 M
39	Poland	38.5 M
40	Morocco	38.1 M
41	Angola	37.9 M
42	Ukraine its history →	37.9 M
43	Uzbekistan	36.4 M
44	Malaysia	35.6 M
45	Mozambique	34.6 M
46	Ghana	34.4 M
47	Peru	34.2 M
48	Saudi Arabia	34 M
49	Madagascar	32 M
50	Côte d’Ivoire	31.9 M
51	Nepal	29.7 M
52	Cameroon	29.1 M
53	Venezuela	28.4 M
54	Niger	27 M
55	Australia its history →	26.7 M
56	North Korea	26.5 M
57	Syria	24.7 M
58	Mali	24.5 M
59	Burkina Faso	23.5 M
60	Taiwan	23.2 M
61	Sri Lanka	23.1 M
62	Malawi	21.7 M
63	Zambia	21.3 M
64	Kazakhstan	20.6 M
65	Chad	20.3 M
66	Chile	19.8 M
67	Romania	19 M
68	Somalia	19 M
69	Senegal	18.5 M
70	Guatemala	18.4 M
71	Netherlands its history →	18.2 M
72	Ecuador	18.1 M
73	Cambodia	17.6 M
74	Zimbabwe	16.6 M
75	Guinea	14.8 M
76	Benin	14.5 M
77	Rwanda	14.3 M
78	Burundi	14 M
79	Bolivia	12.4 M
80	Tunisia	12.3 M
81	South Sudan	11.9 M
82	Haiti	11.8 M
83	Belgium	11.7 M
84	Jordan	11.6 M
85	Dominican Republic	11.4 M
86	United Arab Emirates	11 M
87	Cuba	11 M
88	Honduras	10.8 M
89	Czechia	10.7 M
90	Papua New Guinea	10.6 M
91	Sweden its history →	10.6 M
92	Tajikistan	10.6 M
93	Portugal its history →	10.4 M
94	Azerbaijan	10.3 M
95	Greece	10 M
96	Hungary its history →	9.7 M
97	Togo	9.5 M
98	Israel	9.4 M
99	Austria	9.1 M
100	Belarus	9.1 M
101	Switzerland its history →	8.9 M
102	Sierra Leone	8.6 M
103	Laos	7.8 M
104	Turkmenistan	7.5 M
105	Libya	7.4 M
106	Kyrgyzstan	7.2 M
107	Paraguay	6.9 M
108	Nicaragua	6.9 M
109	Bulgaria	6.8 M
110	Serbia	6.7 M
111	El Salvador	6.3 M
112	Congo - Brazzaville	6.3 M
113	Denmark	6 M
114	Singapore	5.8 M
115	Lebanon	5.8 M
116	Finland	5.6 M
117	Liberia	5.6 M
118	Norway	5.6 M
119	Slovakia	5.5 M
120	Palestine	5.5 M
121	Central African Republic	5.3 M
122	Oman	5.3 M
123	Ireland	5.3 M
124	New Zealand	5.2 M
125	Mauritania	5.2 M
126	Costa Rica	5.1 M
127	Kuwait	4.9 M
128	Panama	4.5 M
129	Croatia	3.9 M
130	Georgia	3.8 M
131	Eritrea	3.5 M
132	Mongolia	3.5 M
133	Uruguay	3.4 M
134	Bosnia & Herzegovina	3.2 M
135	Qatar	3.1 M
136	Moldova	3 M
137	Namibia	3 M
138	Armenia	3 M
139	Lithuania	2.9 M
140	Jamaica	2.8 M
141	Albania	2.8 M
142	Gambia	2.8 M
143	Gabon	2.5 M
144	Botswana	2.5 M
145	Lesotho	2.3 M
146	Guinea-Bissau	2.2 M
147	Slovenia	2.1 M
148	Equatorial Guinea	1.9 M
149	Latvia	1.9 M
150	North Macedonia	1.8 M
151	Trinidad & Tobago	1.5 M
152	Timor-Leste	1.4 M
153	Cyprus	1.4 M
154	Estonia	1.4 M
155	Eswatini	1.2 M
156	Djibouti	1.2 M
157	Fiji	929 k
158	Guyana	831 k
159	Solomon Islands	819 k
160	Bhutan	792 k
161	Luxembourg	673 k
162	Montenegro	638 k
163	Suriname	634 k
164	Malta	540 k
165	Brunei	463 k
166	Belize	417 k
167	Bahamas	401 k
168	Iceland	393 k
169	Vanuatu	328 k

9 countries or territories have no value that year.

Continent averages

World (total)	8.14 bn
Europe (total)	849 M
Africa (total)	1.51 bn
Americas (total)	1.04 bn
Asia (total)	4.68 bn
Oceania (total)	44.6 M

Understanding this map

Why density on the map

Colouring a country by its total population favours big countries: Russia would stand out more than Bangladesh, which has more people on a territory a hundred times smaller. Density relates population to area: you see where people cluster (the Ganges plain, eastern China, western Europe, the Nile delta) and where they are scarce.

A national average

Density is an average over the whole territory. Egypt shows about a hundred people per km², yet almost all live along the Nile, on a few percent of the country; Canada, at 4 per km², still has big cities.

The chart and borders

The chart keeps the total number of inhabitants, on a log scale: the same slope means the same growth rate. Each country is counted within today's borders. The world goes from one billion people around 1800 to over 8 billion, mostly after 1950. Before the first reliable censuses, these are estimates.

Sources : Gapminder (CC BY 4.0), d’après ONU, HMD, Maddison et autres · areas: mledoze/countries (ODbL)

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