Zambia - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Zambia was 24.73 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 24.73 in 2020 and a minimum value of 4.26 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.

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Year Value
1961 4.26
1962 4.39
1963 4.52
1964 4.66
1965 4.80
1966 4.95
1967 5.11
1968 5.27
1969 5.44
1970 5.62
1971 5.81
1972 6.01
1973 6.21
1974 6.43
1975 6.65
1976 6.88
1977 7.11
1978 7.36
1979 7.61
1980 7.87
1981 8.15
1982 8.43
1983 8.72
1984 9.01
1985 9.31
1986 9.61
1987 9.92
1988 10.22
1989 10.52
1990 10.81
1991 11.09
1992 11.37
1993 11.64
1994 11.93
1995 12.24
1996 12.56
1997 12.91
1998 13.27
1999 13.64
2000 14.01
2001 14.38
2002 14.76
2003 15.14
2004 15.54
2005 15.95
2006 16.38
2007 16.82
2008 17.28
2009 17.78
2010 18.30
2011 18.86
2012 19.46
2013 20.08
2014 20.72
2015 21.36
2016 22.01
2017 22.67
2018 23.34
2019 24.03
2020 24.73

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization