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Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of - Population Density 2022

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People per sq. km of land area · World Bank

218.7 +0.8 from 2021 Global rank: 153rd

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density was 218.7 in 2022, increased +0.8 from 217.9 in 2021. This was the 153rd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2022▾

Population Density by Country - 2022
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Greenland	0.1	0.0%
2nd	Mongolia	2.2	1.5%
3rd	Australia	3.4	1.3%
4th	Namibia	3.5	2.8%
5th	Iceland	3.8	2.5%
6th	Suriname	3.9	0.9%
7th	Guyana	3.9	0.8%
8th	Libya	4.1	1.2%
9th	Botswana	4.3	1.6%
10th	Canada	4.4	1.8%
11th	Mauritania	4.7	3.0%
12th	Kazakhstan	7.4	1.5%
13th	Central African Republic	8.2	-0.3%
14th	Russian Federation	8.8	-0.4%
15th	Gabon	9.4	2.3%
16th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	11.1	1.2%
17th	Chad	14.7	3.5%
18th	Saudi Arabia	15.0	4.5%
19th	Norway	15.0	0.9%
20th	Oman	15.3	5.1%
21st	Turkmenistan	15.4	1.9%
22nd	New Caledonia	15.7	0.7%
23rd	Argentina	16.6	0.2%
24th	Paraguay	17.1	1.5%
25th	South Sudan	17.4	1.4%
26th	Belize	17.7	1.9%
27th	Congo, Republic of	17.7	2.4%
28th	Finland	18.3	0.3%
29th	Mali	18.9	3.1%
30th	Algeria	19.1	1.6%
31st	New Zealand	19.3	-0.1%
32nd	Uruguay	19.4	-0.2%
33rd	Niger	20.0	3.3%
34th	Bhutan	20.5	0.7%
35th	Papua New Guinea	22.5	1.9%
36th	Brazil	25.2	0.4%
37th	Vanuatu	25.7	2.3%
38th	Sweden	25.7	0.7%
39th	Peru	26.2	1.0%
40th	Chile	26.3	0.5%
41st	Sudan	26.4	2.7%
42nd	Zambia	27.1	2.8%
43rd	Solomon Islands	27.9	2.4%
44th	Eritrea	28.1	1.8%
45th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	28.4	3.1%
46th	Angola	28.6	3.2%
47th	Latvia	30.2	-0.3%
48th	Estonia	31.6	1.4%
49th	Lao PDR	32.8	1.4%
50th	Kyrgyz Republic	36.4	1.8%
51st	United States	36.5	0.6%
52nd	Palau	38.6	-0.1%
53rd	Faroe Islands	39.4	1.2%
54th	Bahamas, The	39.7	0.3%
55th	Mozambique	41.5	3.0%
56th	Zimbabwe	41.5	1.7%
57th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	45.2	3.3%
58th	Lithuania	45.2	0.8%
59th	Belarus	45.5	-0.8%
60th	Montenegro	46.4	-0.2%
61st	Colombia	46.6	1.1%
62nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	48.3	1.3%
63rd	Djibouti	49.1	1.4%
64th	Fiji	50.3	0.3%
65th	South Africa	51.4	1.4%
66th	Madagascar	52.3	2.5%
67th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	55.2	1.2%
68th	Liberia	55.8	2.2%
69th	Nicaragua	55.9	1.3%
70th	Guinea	57.2	2.5%
71st	Cameroon	58.5	2.7%
72nd	Panama	59.3	1.3%
73rd	Bulgaria	59.6	-0.6%
74th	Afghanistan	62.2	1.4%
75th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	62.6	-1.2%
76th	Equatorial Guinea	64.3	2.5%
77th	Georgia	65.0	0.1%
78th	Mexico	66.2	0.8%
79th	Croatia	68.9	-0.6%
80th	Ukraine	70.8	-7.3%
81st	Eswatini	70.9	1.0%
82nd	Ecuador	71.8	0.8%
83rd	Yemen, Republic of	72.4	2.9%
84th	North Macedonia	72.6	-0.3%
85th	Tanzania	73.1	3.0%
86th	Tajikistan	73.4	2.2%
87th	Guinea-Bissau	74.9	2.3%
88th	Lesotho	75.3	1.1%
89th	Ireland	75.7	2.0%
90th	Samoa	77.4	0.7%
91st	Tunisia	78.0	0.6%
92nd	Serbia	79.3	-2.5%
93rd	Uzbekistan	79.3	2.0%
94th	French Polynesia	80.8	0.2%
95th	Greece	81.0	-1.3%
96th	Burkina Faso	82.3	2.3%
97th	Myanmar	82.4	0.7%
98th	Romania	82.8	-0.4%
99th	Morocco	83.6	1.0%
100th	Brunei Darussalam	86.4	0.8%
101st	Moldova	88.1	-2.6%
102nd	Dominica	89.1	-0.6%
103rd	Albania	89.5	-1.5%
104th	Senegal	91.7	2.5%
105th	Timor-Leste	92.1	1.4%
106th	Kenya	93.4	1.9%
107th	Honduras	93.5	1.7%
108th	Côte d'Ivoire	95.6	2.5%
109th	Spain	95.6	0.7%
110th	Cambodia	97.4	1.3%
111th	Costa Rica	99.5	0.4%
112th	Northern Mariana Islands	100.2	-1.9%
113th	Iraq	101.5	2.3%
114th	Slovenia	104.9	0.2%
115th	Hungary	105.2	-0.3%
116th	Armenia	105.3	0.2%
117th	Malaysia	105.6	1.2%
118th	Cuba	106.5	-0.6%
119th	Austria	109.6	1.0%
120th	Türkiye	110.4	1.0%
121st	European Union	111.9	0.2%
122nd	Slovak Republic	113.0	-0.3%
123rd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	113.1	1.5%
124th	Portugal	113.9	0.7%
125th	Sierra Leone	114.7	2.3%
126th	Poland	120.3	-0.4%
127th	Benin	122.0	2.6%
128th	Syrian Arab Republic	122.3	3.9%
129th	Azerbaijan	122.7	0.0%
130th	France	126.5	0.5%
131st	Jordan	126.8	1.7%
132nd	Cabo Verde	129.0	0.6%
133rd	Czechia	138.3	1.6%
134th	Thailand	140.4	0.0%
135th	United Arab Emirates	141.9	5.2%
136th	Cyprus	144.1	1.1%
137th	Ghana	145.7	1.9%
138th	Tonga	145.9	-0.4%
139th	Indonesia	147.3	0.7%
140th	Denmark	147.6	0.8%
141st	Isle of Man	147.6	0.0%
142nd	China	150.4	0.0%
143rd	Micronesia, Federated States of	160.2	0.4%
144th	Kiribati	161.1	1.6%
145th	Guatemala	166.6	1.4%
146th	Togo	167.1	2.4%
147th	Andorra	169.6	1.7%
148th	St. Kitts and Nevis	179.7	-0.1%
149th	Italy	199.6	-0.2%
150th	Nepal	207.3	0.8%
151st	Antigua and Barbuda	211.0	0.5%
152nd	Malawi	218.2	2.6%
153rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	218.7	0.4%
154th	Switzerland	222.2	0.8%
155th	Marshall Islands	222.7	-3.1%
156th	Qatar	231.3	6.1%
157th	Dominican Republic	233.0	1.0%
158th	São Tomé and Principe	235.7	2.0%
159th	Uganda	236.0	3.1%
160th	Germany	238.1	0.0%
161st	American Samoa	241.7	-1.8%
162nd	Nigeria	245.0	2.1%
163rd	Liechtenstein	246.8	0.8%
164th	Luxembourg	253.7	2.0%
165th	British Virgin Islands	255.5	1.3%
166th	Kuwait	257.6	5.2%
167th	Gambia, The	260.5	2.3%
168th	Seychelles	260.6	20.8%
169th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	261.7	-0.8%
170th	Jamaica	262.2	0.1%
171st	Trinidad and Tobago	266.2	-0.1%
172nd	United Kingdom	279.4	0.9%
173rd	St. Lucia	293.1	0.1%
174th	Cayman Islands	298.3	2.1%
175th	Virgin Islands (US)	301.2	-0.4%
176th	El Salvador	303.1	0.4%
177th	Guam	305.9	0.9%
178th	Pakistan	316.1	1.8%
179th	Viet Nam	318.0	0.8%
180th	Tuvalu	333.1	-2.0%
181st	Japan	343.3	-0.4%
182nd	Grenada	343.9	0.2%
183rd	Curaçao	345.3	-0.4%
184th	Sri Lanka	358.6	0.1%
185th	Puerto Rico (US)	363.0	-1.3%
186th	Philippines	382.2	0.8%
187th	Belgium	383.0	0.8%
188th	Haiti	417.4	1.1%
189th	Israel	441.7	2.0%
190th	Comoros	448.2	2.0%
191st	India	479.4	0.8%
192nd	Burundi	518.7	2.7%
193rd	Netherlands	525.7	1.0%
194th	Korea	529.4	-0.2%
195th	Rwanda	553.3	2.2%
196th	Lebanon	561.5	0.5%
197th	San Marino	562.6	-1.5%
198th	St. Martin (French part)	577.4	-3.6%
199th	Nauru	590.1	0.8%
200th	Aruba	596.2	-0.4%
201st	Mauritius	632.2	-0.3%
202nd	Barbados	656.6	0.1%
203rd	West Bank and Gaza	837.1	2.5%
204th	Bermuda	1,199.1	0.2%
205th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	1,239.4	1.4%
206th	Bangladesh	1,300.4	1.0%
207th	Malta	1,659.7	2.5%
208th	Maldives	1,747.0	1.5%
209th	Bahrain	1,930.0	1.4%
210th	Gibraltar	3,760.9	2.0%
211th	Hong Kong SAR, China	6,996.3	-0.9%
212th	Singapore	7,851.0	3.4%
213th	Monaco	18,680.9	1.0%
214th	Macao SAR, China	20,524.2	-0.8%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density in 2022?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density in 2022 was 218.7. This ranked 153rd globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density change in 2022?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density increased by 0.4% in 2022 compared to 2021.

Which country had the highest population density in 2022?▾

Macao SAR, China had the highest population density in 2022 at 20,524.2.

What is the population density of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2022?▾

The population density of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2022 was 218.7. This ranked 153rd globally.

How does 2022 compare to 2021 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density went from 217.9 in 2021 to 218.7 in 2022, a 0.4% increase.

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