Country statistics

Highest population density

Countries with the most people per square kilometre — where land is scarcest and cities most concentrated.

60 countries in this ranking ← Back to all statistics

Monaco, Singapore, the Vatican, and Bahrain top every density ranking — these are nations where almost the entire population lives within an urban core. Bangladesh is the densest large country, packing more than 1,200 people into every square kilometre on average. Density is computed simply as population divided by total land area; sparsely populated countries with vast uninhabitable terrain (like Australia or Mongolia) sit at the bottom of the global ranking.

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1	Macau	22,863.3	685,900	30	Asia
2	Monaco	19,021.3	38,423	2	Europe
3	Singapore	8,605.9	6,110,200	710	Asia
4	Hong Kong	6,818.4	7,527,500	1,104	Asia
5	Gibraltar	6,333.3	38,000	6	Europe
6	Bahrain	2,084.5	1,594,654	765	Asia
7	Malta	1,817.2	574,250	316	Europe
8	Vatican City	1,800.0	882	0	Europe
9	Maldives	1,717.1	515,132	300	Asia
10	Sint Maarten	1,216.1	41,349	34	Americas
11	Bermuda	1,186.2	64,055	54	Americas
12	Bangladesh	1,150.8	169,828,911	147,570	Asia
13	Jersey	890.2	103,267	116	Europe
14	Palestine	881.6	5,483,450	6,220	Asia
15	Mayotte	858.0	320,901	374	Africa
16	Guernsey	830.5	64,781	78	Europe
17	Taiwan	644.2	23,317,031	36,197	Asia
18	Barbados	622.8	267,800	430	Americas
19	Mauritius	609.7	1,243,741	2,040	Africa
20	Aruba	597.6	107,566	180	Americas
21	Saint Martin	594.3	31,496	53	Americas
22	San Marino	559.5	34,132	61	Europe
23	Nauru	556.2	11,680	21	Oceania
24	Rwanda	535.5	14,104,969	26,338	Africa
25	Lebanon	525.3	5,490,000	10,452	Asia
26	South Korea	510.5	51,159,889	100,210	Asia
27	Saint Barthélemy	503.0	10,562	21	Americas
28	Comoros	494.0	919,901	1,862	Africa
29	Israel	462.0	10,134,800	21,937	Asia
30	Burundi	443.1	12,332,788	27,834	Africa
31	Netherlands	432.4	18,100,436	41,865	Europe
32	India	431.2	1,417,492,000	3,287,263	Asia
33	Haiti	427.6	11,867,032	27,750	Americas
34	Tuvalu	409.3	10,643	26	Oceania
35	Belgium	387.4	11,825,551	30,528	Europe
36	Puerto Rico	361.1	3,203,295	8,870	Americas
37	Réunion	356.9	896,175	2,511	Africa
38	Curaçao	351.6	156,115	444	Americas
39	Philippines	333.4	114,123,600	342,353	Asia
40	Sri Lanka	331.7	21,763,170	65,610	Asia
41	Japan	326.0	123,210,000	377,930	Asia
42	Cayman Islands	321.0	84,738	264	Americas
43	Grenada	316.9	109,021	344	Americas
44	Martinique	310.2	349,925	1,128	Americas
45	Vietnam	306.0	101,343,800	331,212	Asia
46	Pakistan	303.4	241,499,431	796,095	Asia
47	Saint Lucia	298.9	184,100	616	Americas
48	El Salvador	286.6	6,029,976	21,041	Americas
49	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	285.0	110,872	389	Americas
50	United Kingdom	283.5	69,281,437	244,376	Europe
51	Guam	280.2	153,836	549	Oceania
52	Kuwait	274.0	4,881,254	17,818	Asia
53	Qatar	273.9	3,173,024	11,586	Asia
54	Seychelles	271.5	122,729	452	Africa
55	Trinidad and Tobago	266.6	1,367,764	5,130	Americas
56	Luxembourg	263.7	681,973	2,586	Europe
57	British Virgin Islands	261.4	39,471	151	Americas
58	Jamaica	257.1	2,825,544	10,991	Americas
59	Liechtenstein	255.6	40,900	160	Europe
60	United States Virgin Islands	251.1	87,146	347	Americas