Pacific island small states - Population density

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

The value for Population density (people per sq. km of land area) in Pacific island small states was 39.39 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 59 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 39.39 in 2020 and a minimum value of 14.21 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 14.21
1962 14.69
1963 15.18
1964 15.67
1965 16.14
1966 16.60
1967 17.04
1968 17.47
1969 17.89
1970 18.31
1971 18.72
1972 19.12
1973 19.53
1974 19.94
1975 20.36
1976 20.78
1977 21.20
1978 21.64
1979 22.11
1980 22.59
1981 23.12
1982 23.67
1983 24.22
1984 24.74
1985 25.21
1986 25.61
1987 25.94
1988 26.26
1989 26.58
1990 26.95
1991 26.81
1992 27.27
1993 27.76
1994 28.24
1995 28.69
1996 29.10
1997 29.49
1998 29.86
1999 30.22
2000 30.57
2001 30.91
2002 31.25
2003 31.59
2004 31.94
2005 32.32
2006 32.72
2007 33.16
2008 33.61
2009 34.05
2010 34.49
2011 34.92
2012 35.34
2013 35.75
2014 36.19
2015 36.66
2016 37.16
2017 37.69
2018 38.25
2019 38.81
2020 39.39

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Density & urbanization