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Jun 12, 2023 · Population density. Population per unit of area. Source. Gapminder - Population v7 (2022); Gapminder - Systema Globalis (2022); HYDE (2017); United Nations - World Population Prospects (2022); Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Last updated.
- Asia
- Europe
- Africa
- North and South America
- Australia
Asiais the most populated continent in the world with a population of approximately 4.5 billion. About 59.55% of the world’s population lives in Asia. Asia covers an area of 17,212,000 square miles. The continents population density is 246.11 per square mile. Between 2010 and 2018 the population grew at an average of 1% annually.
Europe has a population of 743 million, representing 9.73% of the global population as of 2018. The continent covers an area of 3,930,000 square miles. The population’s density is 187.84 per square miles. Europe is slightly larger than China(3,705,407 square miles), but China has twice the population of Europe.
Africaranks third with a population of 1.29 billion, representing 16.87% of the world’s population. Africa covers an area of 11,730,000 square miles. The population density of the continent is 87.15 people per square mile. Africa is experiencing the world's fastest population growth. Between 2010 and 2015, the population growth in Africa was 2.55% ...
North America and South Americahave near equal population densities. North America has a density of 57.29 per square mile while South America has a density of 56.9 per square mile. North America has a population of 580 million while South America has a population of 429 million.
Australiais the world's least densely populated continent, aside from Antartica which does not have a permanent population. Approximately 41.5 million people inhabit an area of 2,969,907 square miles. The continent’s density is 8.37 per square mile.
Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
- Africa. Nigeria. 206,139,589. Ethiopia. 114,963,588. Egypt. 102,334,404. Dr Congo. 89,561,403. Tanzania. 59,734,218. South Africa. 59,308,690. Kenya.
- Asia. China. 1,439,323,776. India. 1,380,004,385. Indonesia. 273,523,615. Pakistan. 220,892,340. Bangladesh. 164,689,383. Japan. 126,476,461. Philippines.
- Europe. Russia. 145,934,462. Germany. 83,783,942. United Kingdom. 67,886,011. France. 65,273,511. Italy. 60,461,826. Spain. 46,754,778. Ukraine. 43,733,762.
- North America. United States. 331,002,651. Mexico. 128,932,753. Canada. 37,742,154. Guatemala. 17,915,568. Haiti. 11,402,528. Cuba. 11,326,616.
For comparison, the two countries with the highest populations—China and India—have population densities of 146/km² and 412/km², respectively. Density calculation based on land area, not total area. CSV JSON.
Chart and table of World population density from 1950 to 2024. United Nations projections are also included through the year 2100. The current population density of World in 2024 is 60.31 people per square kilometer, a 0.91% increase from 2023. The population density of World in 2023 was 59.76 people per square kilometer, a 0.88% increase from ...
Feb 25, 2021 · Asia is the most populous and densely populated continent, followed by Africa and Europe. Therefore, it is not surprising that 7 of the top 10 densely populated countries are on the continent. However, the most densely populated country, Monaco, is located in Europe.
