American Samoa - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in American Samoa was 275.99 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 298.42 in 2004 and a minimum value of 103.03 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 103.03
1962 106.23
1963 110.15
1964 114.25
1965 118.38
1966 122.37
1967 126.18
1968 129.90
1969 133.49
1970 136.81
1971 139.91
1972 142.82
1973 145.52
1974 147.98
1975 150.23
1976 152.28
1977 154.17
1978 156.31
1979 159.21
1980 163.24
1981 168.49
1982 174.85
1983 182.07
1984 189.73
1985 197.61
1986 205.57
1987 213.71
1988 221.73
1989 229.47
1990 236.76
1991 243.41
1992 249.50
1993 255.13
1994 260.50
1995 265.79
1996 271.05
1997 276.14
1998 280.90
1999 285.25
2000 289.08
2001 292.48
2002 295.39
2003 297.48
2004 298.42
2005 297.79
2006 295.55
2007 291.84
2008 287.45
2009 283.38
2010 280.42
2011 278.78
2012 278.35
2013 278.59
2014 278.96
2015 279.03
2016 278.70
2017 278.09
2018 277.31
2019 276.56
2020 275.99

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization