Sierra Leone - Population density

Population density (people per sq. km of land area)

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Sierra Leone was 110.52 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 110.52 in 2020 and a minimum value of 32.59 in 1961.

Definition: Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization and World Bank population estimates.

See also:

Year Value
1961 32.59
1962 33.09
1963 33.62
1964 34.17
1965 34.75
1966 35.35
1967 35.98
1968 36.63
1969 37.31
1970 38.03
1971 38.77
1972 39.55
1973 40.36
1974 41.20
1975 42.08
1976 42.98
1977 43.92
1978 44.90
1979 45.91
1980 46.95
1981 47.99
1982 49.05
1983 50.15
1984 51.36
1985 52.72
1986 54.26
1987 55.95
1988 57.59
1989 58.94
1990 59.85
1991 60.25
1992 60.23
1993 59.97
1994 59.71
1995 59.63
1996 59.75
1997 60.06
1998 60.70
1999 61.82
2000 63.52
2001 65.86
2002 68.80
2003 72.06
2004 75.28
2005 78.22
2006 80.76
2007 82.98
2008 84.98
2009 86.90
2010 88.88
2011 90.93
2012 93.00
2013 95.10
2014 97.22
2015 99.36
2016 101.54
2017 103.75
2018 105.99
2019 108.25
2020 110.52

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization