Afghanistan - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Afghanistan was 59.63 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 59.63 in 2020 and a minimum value of 14.04 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 14.04
1962 14.32
1963 14.62
1964 14.93
1965 15.25
1966 15.59
1967 15.93
1968 16.29
1969 16.69
1970 17.11
1971 17.58
1972 18.06
1973 18.55
1974 19.01
1975 19.44
1976 19.83
1977 20.17
1978 20.44
1979 20.54
1980 20.46
1981 20.18
1982 19.73
1983 19.20
1984 18.69
1985 18.29
1986 17.98
1987 17.77
1988 17.80
1989 18.18
1990 19.01
1991 20.37
1992 22.19
1993 24.23
1994 26.16
1995 27.74
1996 28.88
1997 29.65
1998 30.23
1999 30.90
2000 31.83
2001 33.10
2002 34.62
2003 36.27
2004 37.87
2005 39.30
2006 40.49
2007 41.51
2008 42.46
2009 43.49
2010 44.70
2011 46.13
2012 47.73
2013 49.43
2014 51.11
2015 52.71
2016 54.20
2017 55.60
2018 56.94
2019 58.27
2020 59.63

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization