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Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of - Population Density 2018

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People per sq. km of land area · World Bank

215.4 +0.9 from 2017 Global rank: 155th

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density was 215.4 in 2018, increased +0.9 from 214.4 in 2017. This was the 155th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2018▾

Population Density by Country - 2018
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Greenland	0.1	-0.3%
2nd	Mongolia	2.1	1.9%
3rd	Namibia	3.1	2.8%
4th	Australia	3.2	1.5%
5th	Iceland	3.5	2.1%
6th	Suriname	3.7	1.0%
7th	Libya	3.9	1.6%
8th	Guyana	4.0	3.0%
9th	Botswana	4.1	1.4%
10th	Canada	4.1	1.4%
11th	Mauritania	4.2	3.0%
12th	Kazakhstan	7.0	1.5%
13th	Central African Republic	7.8	1.8%
14th	Gabon	8.6	2.6%
15th	Russian Federation	8.9	0.1%
16th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	10.6	1.4%
17th	Chad	12.8	3.4%
18th	Saudi Arabia	14.0	-2.5%
19th	Turkmenistan	14.2	2.3%
20th	Norway	14.5	0.7%
21st	Oman	14.9	1.3%
22nd	New Caledonia	15.5	0.0%
23rd	South Sudan	16.0	-1.3%
24th	Congo, Republic of	16.1	2.5%
25th	Paraguay	16.2	1.4%
26th	Argentina	16.3	0.8%
27th	Belize	16.7	1.9%
28th	Mali	16.8	3.2%
29th	Niger	17.5	3.5%
30th	Algeria	17.8	2.0%
31st	Finland	18.1	0.1%
32nd	New Zealand	18.6	1.8%
33rd	Uruguay	19.4	0.2%
34th	Bhutan	19.9	0.7%
35th	Papua New Guinea	20.7	2.4%
36th	Vanuatu	23.4	2.4%
37th	Sudan	23.7	3.5%
38th	Zambia	24.2	3.1%
39th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	24.6	3.6%
40th	Brazil	24.7	0.7%
41st	Peru	24.9	1.8%
42nd	Sweden	25.0	1.2%
43rd	Angola	25.1	3.5%
44th	Solomon Islands	25.3	3.4%
45th	Chile	25.5	1.8%
46th	Eritrea	26.4	1.3%
47th	Lao PDR	30.9	1.6%
48th	Estonia	30.9	0.3%
49th	Latvia	31.0	-0.8%
50th	Kyrgyz Republic	33.6	2.2%
51st	United States	35.9	0.6%
52nd	Faroe Islands	36.5	1.6%
53rd	Mozambique	36.9	3.0%
54th	Palau	38.7	0.0%
55th	Zimbabwe	38.9	1.5%
56th	Bahamas, The	39.2	0.6%
57th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	39.7	3.4%
58th	Turks and Caicos Islands	43.7	4.1%
59th	Colombia	44.2	1.9%
60th	Lithuania	45.0	-0.8%
61st	Djibouti	46.2	1.6%
62nd	Belarus	46.5	-0.2%
63rd	Montenegro	46.6	0.1%
64th	Madagascar	47.3	2.6%
65th	South Africa	48.3	1.7%
66th	Fiji	50.2	-0.2%
67th	Liberia	51.3	2.0%
68th	Guinea	51.7	2.6%
69th	Cameroon	52.5	2.8%
70th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	53.1	1.3%
71st	Nicaragua	53.2	1.3%
72nd	Panama	56.2	1.6%
73rd	Afghanistan	56.3	3.0%
74th	Equatorial Guinea	57.6	3.5%
75th	Bulgaria	61.8	-1.4%
76th	Mexico	64.1	1.0%
77th	Yemen, Republic of	64.6	3.0%
78th	Tanzania	64.8	3.2%
79th	Georgia	65.2	0.0%
80th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	66.2	-1.2%
81st	Tajikistan	67.1	2.4%
82nd	Eswatini	68.0	0.9%
83rd	Guinea-Bissau	68.4	2.4%
84th	Ecuador	68.6	1.7%
85th	Ireland	71.1	1.5%
86th	Croatia	71.3	-1.3%
87th	Lesotho	71.9	1.2%
88th	Uzbekistan	73.5	1.7%
89th	Samoa	74.7	1.1%
90th	Burkina Faso	74.7	2.7%
91st	North Macedonia	74.9	-0.5%
92nd	Tunisia	75.7	1.0%
93rd	Ukraine	78.0	-0.5%
94th	Serbia	79.8	-0.5%
95th	Myanmar	80.1	0.7%
96th	Morocco	80.3	1.1%
97th	French Polynesia	80.6	-0.1%
98th	Senegal	82.7	2.8%
99th	Brunei Darussalam	83.1	1.2%
100th	Greece	83.3	-0.2%
101st	Romania	84.6	-0.6%
102nd	Timor-Leste	85.8	1.9%
103rd	Côte d'Ivoire	86.4	2.7%
104th	Kenya	87.0	1.7%
105th	Honduras	87.3	1.8%
106th	Dominica	90.9	-0.5%
107th	Cambodia	92.2	1.3%
108th	Iraq	92.8	2.4%
109th	Spain	93.6	0.4%
110th	Moldova	94.3	-1.7%
111th	Albania	95.2	-1.5%
112th	Costa Rica	97.1	0.9%
113th	Malaysia	100.2	1.7%
114th	Slovenia	103.0	0.4%
115th	Armenia	104.3	-0.3%
116th	Sierra Leone	104.7	2.4%
117th	Türkiye	105.8	1.4%
118th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	106.2	1.9%
119th	Hungary	106.4	-0.2%
120th	Syrian Arab Republic	106.6	1.8%
121st	Northern Mariana Islands	106.7	-1.8%
122nd	Austria	107.1	0.5%
123rd	Cuba	108.2	-0.2%
124th	Benin	109.8	2.9%
125th	European Union	111.7	0.2%
126th	Portugal	112.3	-0.2%
127th	Slovak Republic	113.3	0.1%
128th	Jordan	117.8	2.2%
129th	Azerbaijan	120.3	0.9%
130th	Poland	124.0	0.0%
131st	France	124.6	0.4%
132nd	Cabo Verde	127.4	0.1%
133rd	United Arab Emirates	131.6	1.3%
134th	Ghana	134.6	2.1%
135th	Cyprus	137.5	1.3%
136th	Czechia	137.7	0.3%
137th	Thailand	139.7	0.3%
138th	Indonesia	143.8	1.0%
139th	Denmark	144.8	0.5%
140th	Tonga	146.6	0.2%
141st	Isle of Man	147.0	0.2%
142nd	China	149.4	0.5%
143rd	Kiribati	150.7	1.5%
144th	Togo	151.8	2.5%
145th	Micronesia, Federated States of	157.0	0.4%
146th	Guatemala	157.2	1.7%
147th	Andorra	159.9	1.9%
148th	St. Kitts and Nevis	180.8	-0.1%
149th	Nepal	195.9	0.2%
150th	Malawi	196.5	2.7%
151st	Italy	203.4	0.2%
152nd	Antigua and Barbuda	206.7	0.5%
153rd	Uganda	207.3	3.5%
154th	Seychelles	210.4	1.0%
155th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	215.4	0.4%
156th	Switzerland	215.5	0.7%
157th	São Tomé and Principe	218.9	1.6%
158th	Dominican Republic	223.2	1.1%
159th	Qatar	224.6	1.4%
160th	Nigeria	225.0	2.3%
161st	British Virgin Islands	231.0	6.0%
162nd	Luxembourg	236.1	1.9%
163rd	Gambia, The	237.1	2.5%
164th	Germany	237.3	0.3%
165th	Liechtenstein	239.0	0.7%
166th	Kuwait	242.6	4.1%
167th	Marshall Islands	251.6	-2.7%
168th	American Samoa	254.5	-1.3%
169th	Jamaica	260.4	0.2%
170th	Trinidad and Tobago	264.9	0.2%
171st	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	269.0	-0.7%
172nd	United Kingdom	274.0	0.5%
173rd	Cayman Islands	274.8	2.2%
174th	St. Lucia	290.2	0.4%
175th	Pakistan	294.4	1.6%
176th	El Salvador	300.2	0.1%
177th	Guam	301.3	-0.5%
178th	Virgin Islands (US)	305.7	-0.3%
179th	Viet Nam	307.0	1.1%
180th	Grenada	340.3	0.2%
181st	Japan	347.9	-0.1%
182nd	Sri Lanka	350.3	1.1%
183rd	Tuvalu	358.4	-1.1%
184th	Curaçao	358.9	-0.5%
185th	Philippines	367.1	1.2%
186th	Puerto Rico (US)	371.0	-3.5%
187th	Belgium	374.7	-0.1%
188th	Haiti	397.8	1.3%
189th	Israel	410.5	1.9%
190th	Comoros	414.6	2.0%
191st	Burundi	461.8	3.1%
192nd	India	462.4	1.1%
193rd	Rwanda	506.2	2.3%
194th	Netherlands	511.8	0.6%
195th	Korea	529.0	0.4%
196th	Nauru	573.9	1.4%
197th	San Marino	575.4	2.1%
198th	Lebanon	585.0	-2.9%
199th	Aruba	605.0	0.2%
200th	Mauritius	633.7	0.1%
201st	Barbados	652.8	0.2%
202nd	St. Martin (French part)	720.2	-2.2%
203rd	West Bank and Gaza	759.0	2.6%
204th	Channel Islands	833.1	0.4%
205th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	1,168.0	1.8%
206th	Bermuda	1,182.1	0.4%
207th	Bangladesh	1,256.2	0.8%
208th	Malta	1,512.2	3.6%
209th	Maldives	1,577.0	3.2%
210th	Bahrain	1,932.0	0.4%
211th	Gibraltar	3,485.4	1.8%
212th	Hong Kong SAR, China	7,097.7	0.8%
213th	Singapore	7,897.3	0.2%
214th	Monaco	18,822.9	1.3%
215th	Macao SAR, China	20,027.4	-4.9%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density in 2018?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density in 2018 was 215.4. This ranked 155th globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density change in 2018?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density increased by 0.4% in 2018 compared to 2017.

Which country had the highest population density in 2018?▾

Macao SAR, China had the highest population density in 2018 at 20,027.4.

What is the population density of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2018?▾

The population density of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2018 was 215.4. This ranked 155th globally.

How does 2018 compare to 2017 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density went from 214.4 in 2017 to 215.4 in 2018, a 0.4% increase.

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