OECD members - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in OECD members was 38.65 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 38.65 in 2020 and a minimum value of 23.11 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 23.11
1962 23.43
1963 23.76
1964 24.08
1965 24.39
1966 24.69
1967 24.99
1968 25.27
1969 25.56
1970 25.85
1971 26.19
1972 26.49
1973 26.78
1974 27.08
1975 27.36
1976 27.63
1977 27.89
1978 28.16
1979 28.42
1980 28.69
1981 28.95
1982 29.21
1983 29.45
1984 29.69
1985 29.92
1986 30.16
1987 30.40
1988 30.65
1989 30.91
1990 31.18
1991 31.48
1992 31.77
1993 32.06
1994 32.32
1995 32.58
1996 32.83
1997 33.08
1998 33.33
1999 33.57
2000 33.81
2001 34.07
2002 34.32
2003 34.57
2004 34.83
2005 35.08
2006 35.34
2007 35.61
2008 35.90
2009 36.16
2010 36.40
2011 36.58
2012 36.82
2013 37.05
2014 37.30
2015 37.55
2016 37.79
2017 38.02
2018 38.24
2019 38.44
2020 38.65

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization