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Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of - Population Density 2015

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People per sq. km of land area · World Bank

212.4 +1.0 from 2014 Global rank: 159th

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density was 212.4 in 2015, increased +1.0 from 211.4 in 2014. This was the 159th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2015▾

Population Density by Country - 2015
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Greenland	0.1	-0.3%
2nd	Mongolia	1.9	2.2%
3rd	Namibia	2.9	2.7%
4th	Australia	3.1	1.4%
5th	Iceland	3.3	1.0%
6th	Suriname	3.6	1.1%
7th	Libya	3.7	1.6%
8th	Mauritania	3.8	3.1%
9th	Guyana	3.9	0.6%
10th	Botswana	3.9	1.4%
11th	Canada	4.0	0.8%
12th	Kazakhstan	6.7	1.5%
13th	Central African Republic	7.4	0.1%
14th	Gabon	7.9	3.2%
15th	Russian Federation	8.8	0.3%
16th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	10.2	1.5%
17th	Chad	11.6	3.2%
18th	Turkmenistan	13.2	2.3%
19th	Oman	13.5	4.6%
20th	Saudi Arabia	13.9	5.3%
21st	Norway	14.2	1.0%
22nd	Congo, Republic of	14.9	2.4%
23rd	Mali	15.2	3.2%
24th	New Caledonia	15.5	0.7%
25th	Paraguay	15.5	1.5%
26th	Belize	15.6	2.1%
27th	Niger	15.7	3.8%
28th	Argentina	15.9	1.1%
29th	Algeria	16.8	2.1%
30th	New Zealand	17.5	2.1%
31st	South Sudan	17.6	-1.1%
32nd	Finland	18.0	0.3%
33rd	Uruguay	19.2	0.3%
34th	Papua New Guinea	19.3	2.6%
35th	Bhutan	19.4	1.0%
36th	Sudan	21.4	3.1%
37th	Vanuatu	21.8	2.3%
38th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	22.0	3.5%
39th	Zambia	22.1	3.2%
40th	Angola	22.6	3.7%
41st	Solomon Islands	22.8	3.6%
42nd	Peru	23.8	1.1%
43rd	Sweden	24.1	1.1%
44th	Brazil	24.1	0.8%
45th	Chile	24.3	1.0%
46th	Eritrea	25.6	0.3%
47th	Lao PDR	29.5	1.5%
48th	Estonia	30.3	0.1%
49th	Kyrgyz Republic	31.5	2.3%
50th	Latvia	31.8	-0.8%
51st	Mozambique	33.8	2.9%
52nd	Faroe Islands	35.0	1.0%
53rd	United States	35.2	0.8%
54th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	35.7	3.4%
55th	Zimbabwe	37.2	1.3%
56th	Bahamas, The	38.5	0.8%
57th	Turks and Caicos Islands	38.5	4.4%
58th	Palau	38.6	0.3%
59th	Colombia	42.3	0.9%
60th	Madagascar	43.7	2.7%
61st	Djibouti	44.0	1.8%
62nd	Montenegro	46.4	0.1%
63rd	Lithuania	46.5	-0.9%
64th	Belarus	46.6	0.1%
65th	South Africa	46.8	2.0%
66th	Guinea	47.9	2.6%
67th	Cameroon	48.2	3.2%
68th	Liberia	48.4	2.1%
69th	Fiji	50.3	0.1%
70th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	50.7	1.4%
71st	Nicaragua	51.1	1.4%
72nd	Equatorial Guinea	51.8	3.9%
73rd	Afghanistan	51.9	3.2%
74th	Panama	53.4	1.7%
75th	Tanzania	58.7	3.3%
76th	Yemen, Republic of	59.0	3.1%
77th	Tajikistan	62.3	2.6%
78th	Mexico	62.3	1.1%
79th	Guinea-Bissau	63.5	2.6%
80th	Bulgaria	64.3	-1.3%
81st	Georgia	65.2	0.2%
82nd	Ecuador	65.5	1.4%
83rd	Eswatini	66.4	0.6%
84th	Ireland	68.3	0.9%
85th	Burkina Faso	68.6	3.0%
86th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	68.7	-1.3%
87th	Lesotho	69.3	1.2%
88th	Uzbekistan	69.8	0.6%
89th	Samoa	71.3	0.9%
90th	Tunisia	73.4	1.1%
91st	Croatia	74.2	-1.2%
92nd	Senegal	75.8	3.1%
93rd	North Macedonia	75.8	-0.3%
94th	Morocco	77.5	1.2%
95th	Myanmar	78.2	0.8%
96th	Ukraine	79.0	-0.4%
97th	Côte d'Ivoire	79.4	2.9%
98th	French Polynesia	80.1	0.5%
99th	Brunei Darussalam	80.1	1.3%
100th	Timor-Leste	81.0	2.0%
101st	Serbia	81.1	-0.5%
102nd	Kenya	82.5	1.9%
103rd	Honduras	82.6	1.9%
104th	Greece	83.9	-0.7%
105th	Romania	86.1	-0.5%
106th	Iraq	86.5	2.8%
107th	Cambodia	88.5	1.5%
108th	Spain	92.9	0.0%
109th	Dominica	93.9	0.1%
110th	Costa Rica	94.4	1.1%
111th	Malaysia	95.1	1.7%
112th	Sierra Leone	97.5	2.3%
113th	Moldova	98.8	-0.8%
114th	Albania	99.7	-1.5%
115th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	100.1	2.1%
116th	Benin	100.8	3.0%
117th	Türkiye	101.6	1.3%
118th	Slovenia	102.4	0.1%
119th	Austria	104.7	1.1%
120th	Armenia	105.5	-0.3%
121st	Syrian Arab Republic	105.8	-4.2%
122nd	Hungary	107.4	-0.4%
123rd	Jordan	107.5	8.6%
124th	Cuba	108.3	-0.2%
125th	European Union	111.0	0.2%
126th	Northern Mariana Islands	112.0	-1.3%
127th	Slovak Republic	112.8	0.1%
128th	Portugal	113.1	-0.4%
129th	Azerbaijan	116.7	1.2%
130th	United Arab Emirates	119.8	5.5%
131st	France	123.5	0.4%
132nd	Poland	124.1	-0.1%
133rd	Ghana	126.1	2.3%
134th	Cabo Verde	127.1	0.0%
135th	Cyprus	132.0	1.5%
136th	Czechia	136.6	0.2%
137th	Thailand	138.1	0.5%
138th	Indonesia	139.4	1.1%
139th	Togo	140.9	2.6%
140th	Denmark	142.1	0.7%
141st	Kiribati	144.2	1.3%
142nd	Isle of Man	146.7	-0.4%
143rd	China	147.0	0.6%
144th	Tonga	147.4	-0.5%
145th	Guatemala	149.0	1.8%
146th	Andorra	153.6	-2.1%
147th	Micronesia, Federated States of	155.3	0.3%
148th	St. Kitts and Nevis	181.1	0.0%
149th	Malawi	181.2	2.8%
150th	Uganda	187.2	3.1%
151st	Nepal	194.1	0.5%
152nd	Seychelles	203.1	2.3%
153rd	Antigua and Barbuda	203.2	0.7%
154th	Italy	203.7	-0.2%
155th	Qatar	204.1	9.0%
156th	São Tomé and Principe	208.6	1.8%
157th	Nigeria	209.4	2.6%
158th	Switzerland	209.6	1.1%
159th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	212.4	0.5%
160th	Kuwait	215.2	4.6%
161st	Dominican Republic	216.0	1.2%
162nd	Gambia, The	219.8	2.8%
163rd	Luxembourg	221.3	2.4%
164th	British Virgin Islands	230.0	4.7%
165th	Germany	234.2	0.9%
166th	Liechtenstein	234.3	0.7%
167th	Cayman Islands	256.8	2.5%
168th	Jamaica	258.8	0.3%
169th	Trinidad and Tobago	263.1	0.3%
170th	American Samoa	264.4	-1.1%
171st	United Kingdom	269.0	0.7%
172nd	Marshall Islands	271.1	-2.0%
173rd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	274.3	-0.5%
174th	Pakistan	281.9	1.4%
175th	St. Lucia	286.7	0.4%
176th	Viet Nam	296.2	1.2%
177th	El Salvador	298.4	0.3%
178th	Guam	305.4	-0.4%
179th	Virgin Islands (US)	307.7	-0.2%
180th	Grenada	337.3	0.5%
181st	Sri Lanka	338.8	2.3%
182nd	Japan	348.8	-0.1%
183rd	Philippines	353.2	1.5%
184th	Curaçao	355.8	1.3%
185th	Tuvalu	365.4	-0.2%
186th	Belgium	371.7	0.6%
187th	Haiti	381.8	1.4%
188th	Israel	387.3	2.0%
189th	Comoros	390.5	2.1%
190th	Puerto Rico (US)	398.6	-1.4%
191st	Burundi	430.2	2.3%
192nd	India	446.7	1.2%
193rd	Rwanda	471.8	2.4%
194th	Netherlands	503.1	0.5%
195th	Korea	523.5	0.5%
196th	Nauru	547.7	2.0%
197th	San Marino	548.3	0.7%
198th	Aruba	599.5	1.0%
199th	Mauritius	632.4	0.1%
200th	Lebanon	632.7	2.0%
201st	Barbados	648.8	0.2%
202nd	West Bank and Gaza	709.3	2.3%
203rd	St. Martin (French part)	747.4	-0.2%
204th	Channel Islands	825.5	0.4%
205th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	1,102.1	2.2%
206th	Bermuda	1,175.3	-0.1%
207th	Bangladesh	1,224.4	0.9%
208th	Malta	1,388.2	2.5%
209th	Maldives	1,427.2	3.5%
210th	Bahrain	1,761.3	3.3%
211th	Gibraltar	3,319.3	1.2%
212th	Hong Kong SAR, China	6,944.1	0.9%
213th	Singapore	7,806.8	1.2%
214th	Monaco	18,133.7	1.7%
215th	Macao SAR, China	21,148.0	3.1%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density in 2015?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density in 2015 was 212.4. This ranked 159th globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density change in 2015?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density increased by 0.5% in 2015 compared to 2014.

Which country had the highest population density in 2015?▾

Macao SAR, China had the highest population density in 2015 at 21,148.0.

What is the population density of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2015?▾

The population density of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2015 was 212.4. This ranked 159th globally.

How does 2015 compare to 2014 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density went from 211.4 in 2014 to 212.4 in 2015, a 0.5% increase.

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