New Caledonia - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in New Caledonia was 14.88 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 14.88 in 2020 and a minimum value of 4.44 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 4.44
1962 4.56
1963 4.69
1964 4.82
1965 4.95
1966 5.11
1967 5.28
1968 5.44
1969 5.69
1970 6.13
1971 6.56
1972 6.87
1973 7.03
1974 7.17
1975 7.25
1976 7.33
1977 7.44
1978 7.52
1979 7.58
1980 7.66
1981 7.80
1982 7.97
1983 8.13
1984 8.30
1985 8.45
1986 8.61
1987 8.78
1988 8.95
1989 9.13
1990 9.35
1991 9.59
1992 9.84
1993 10.09
1994 10.37
1995 10.60
1996 10.81
1997 11.02
1998 11.23
1999 11.44
2000 11.66
2001 11.89
2002 12.12
2003 12.32
2004 12.51
2005 12.71
2006 12.90
2007 13.09
2008 13.28
2009 13.45
2010 13.66
2011 13.91
2012 14.17
2013 14.42
2014 14.66
2015 14.70
2016 14.73
2017 14.77
2018 14.81
2019 14.84
2020 14.88

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization