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India – Population Density 1986

Name: India Population Density 1986
Creator: World Bank
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Midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Captures how concentrated the population is across the country. · World Bank

265.9 +6.1 from 1985 G20 rank: 154th

India's population density was 265.9 in 1986, increased +6.1 from 259.9 in 1985. This was the 154th highest in the G20.

G20 Ranking – 1986▾

Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Greenland	0.2	0.6%
2nd	Mongolia	1.3	2.6%
3rd	Namibia	1.4	3.1%
4th	Mauritania	1.7	2.9%
5th	Botswana	2.0	3.4%
6th	Australia	2.1	1.5%
7th	Libya	2.3	3.0%
8th	Iceland	2.4	0.7%
9th	Suriname	2.4	1.4%
10th	Canada	2.9	1.0%
11th	Gabon	3.4	2.8%
12th	Guyana	3.9	-0.4%
13th	Saudi Arabia	4.0	5.8%
14th	Chad	4.2	3.0%
15th	Central African Republic	4.2	1.3%
16th	Oman	4.6	6.6%
17th	Niger	5.8	3.1%
18th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	6.0	2.1%
19th	Congo, Republic of	6.2	3.0%
20th	Mali	7.0	1.9%
21st	Belize	7.3	2.3%
22nd	Papua New Guinea	7.8	2.2%
23rd	Angola	8.1	3.7%
24th	New Caledonia	8.9	1.7%
25th	Paraguay	9.1	2.9%
26th	Zambia	9.4	3.0%
27th	Algeria	9.5	3.3%
28th	Solomon Islands	10.4	3.3%
29th	Turks and Caicos Islands	10.5	4.4%
30th	Vanuatu	11.0	2.6%
31st	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	11.1	4.2%
32nd	Bhutan	11.2	3.1%
33rd	Argentina	11.3	1.6%
34th	Norway	11.4	0.4%
35th	New Zealand	12.3	0.0%
36th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	14.2	3.2%
37th	Equatorial Guinea	14.4	5.0%
38th	Peru	15.7	2.4%
39th	Finland	16.1	0.3%
40th	Mozambique	16.2	1.8%
41st	Brazil	16.6	2.1%
42nd	Lao PDR	16.7	2.9%
43rd	Chile	16.9	1.6%
44th	Uruguay	17.3	0.5%
45th	Afghanistan	17.5	-0.1%
46th	Djibouti	18.4	5.9%
47th	Madagascar	18.5	2.9%
48th	Sweden	20.5	0.2%
49th	United Arab Emirates	20.7	6.5%
50th	Cameroon	21.3	3.1%
51st	Yemen, Republic of	22.5	3.9%
52nd	Zimbabwe	23.2	3.4%
53rd	Guinea	23.4	2.5%
54th	Liberia	24.0	3.0%
55th	Bahamas, The	25.7	1.7%
56th	United States	26.2	0.9%
57th	Tanzania	26.3	3.4%
58th	Colombia	26.9	2.1%
59th	South Africa	29.8	3.2%
60th	Burkina Faso	30.1	2.9%
61st	Panama	30.3	2.3%
62nd	Nicaragua	31.5	2.4%
63rd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	31.6	3.8%
64th	Guinea-Bissau	32.4	1.6%
65th	Côte d'Ivoire	32.8	4.0%
66th	Qatar	32.9	4.5%
67th	Jordan	33.0	4.7%
68th	Faroe Islands	33.0	0.9%
69th	Ecuador	34.5	2.5%
70th	Kenya	35.0	3.6%
71st	Cambodia	35.6	4.0%
72nd	Senegal	35.7	2.9%
73rd	Iraq	36.8	2.5%
74th	Mexico	39.4	2.1%
75th	Honduras	39.8	2.9%
76th	Fiji	40.5	2.1%
77th	Benin	41.5	3.0%
78th	Eswatini	42.7	4.0%
79th	Brunei Darussalam	43.0	3.5%
80th	Timor-Leste	47.6	1.5%
81st	Malaysia	48.0	3.3%
82nd	Tunisia	48.9	2.6%
83rd	Morocco	50.6	2.2%
84th	French Polynesia	50.7	2.6%
85th	Ireland	51.4	0.0%
86th	Sierra Leone	51.7	2.5%
87th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	52.4	2.9%
88th	Lesotho	54.9	2.6%
89th	Costa Rica	55.2	2.7%
90th	Myanmar	57.1	1.9%
91st	Samoa	59.0	0.1%
92nd	Syrian Arab Republic	59.9	3.5%
93rd	Ghana	61.4	2.2%
94th	Togo	65.2	3.1%
95th	Türkiye	67.3	2.2%
96th	Guatemala	75.3	2.8%
97th	Spain	77.3	0.3%
98th	Greece	77.3	0.3%
99th	Uganda	77.4	3.0%
100th	Cyprus	80.4	1.6%
101st	Bulgaria	81.0	0.0%
102nd	Malawi	83.9	3.8%
103rd	Kiribati	84.0	2.4%
104th	Cabo Verde	87.4	1.4%
105th	Gambia, The	88.3	4.1%
106th	British Virgin Islands	91.5	3.4%
107th	Austria	91.7	0.1%
108th	Cayman Islands	92.5	4.1%
109th	Indonesia	93.9	2.0%
110th	Dominica	95.2	-0.5%
111th	Cuba	95.4	0.9%
112th	Nigeria	95.8	2.8%
113th	Andorra	97.3	4.4%
114th	Romania	99.1	0.5%
115th	Thailand	100.2	1.8%
116th	France	105.7	0.5%
117th	Portugal	109.6	0.1%
118th	Albania	110.3	2.0%
119th	Kuwait	110.7	4.1%
120th	Isle of Man	113.5	0.5%
121st	China	113.6	1.5%
122nd	European Union	115.5	0.3%
123rd	São Tomé and Principe	115.8	2.3%
124th	Hungary	118.3	-0.2%
125th	Poland	122.3	0.7%
126th	Nepal	125.0	2.2%
127th	Denmark	128.0	0.1%
128th	Pakistan	131.8	3.4%
129th	Dominican Republic	136.0	2.2%
130th	Tonga	136.1	0.0%
131st	Seychelles	142.7	0.6%
132nd	Antigua and Barbuda	146.1	-0.5%
133rd	St. Kitts and Nevis	160.1	-0.6%
134th	Switzerland	164.5	0.5%
135th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	165.4	1.5%
136th	Liechtenstein	170.2	1.3%
137th	Viet Nam	185.4	2.2%
138th	Philippines	190.0	2.6%
139th	Italy	192.4	0.0%
140th	Israel	198.7	1.6%
141st	Burundi	199.7	1.9%
142nd	American Samoa	202.9	3.8%
143rd	Jamaica	213.5	0.9%
144th	Comoros	214.6	2.8%
145th	St. Lucia	215.1	1.6%
146th	Germany	222.6	0.0%
147th	Haiti	229.2	2.0%
148th	United Kingdom	234.3	0.2%
149th	Trinidad and Tobago	234.5	1.3%
150th	Guam	235.1	2.3%
151st	El Salvador	241.0	2.0%
152nd	Sri Lanka	250.9	1.2%
153rd	Rwanda	264.8	3.4%
154th	India	265.9	2.3%
155th	Tuvalu	273.9	2.1%
156th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	280.2	0.7%
157th	Grenada	284.7	0.7%
158th	Virgin Islands (US)	288.1	0.1%
159th	Lebanon	322.6	2.6%
160th	Aruba	333.0	-2.9%
161st	Japan	333.1	0.5%
162nd	San Marino	377.3	0.7%
163rd	Puerto Rico (US)	384.4	1.0%
164th	Korea	427.3	1.0%
165th	Netherlands	431.6	0.6%
166th	Nauru	437.1	2.2%
167th	Mauritius	506.6	0.8%
168th	Barbados	596.8	0.3%
169th	Bahrain	646.8	3.7%
170th	Maldives	656.5	3.6%
171st	Channel Islands	694.0	1.0%
172nd	Bangladesh	788.5	2.4%
173rd	Bermuda	1,035.0	0.6%
174th	Malta	1,069.1	1.7%
175th	Gibraltar	2,832.8	-0.6%
176th	Singapore	4,079.7	-0.1%
177th	Hong Kong SAR, China	5,580.4	1.3%
178th	Monaco	14,352.7	1.3%
179th	Macao SAR, China	14,802.5	2.2%

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