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Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of - Population Density 2023

Name: Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of Population Density 2023
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People per sq. km of land area · World Bank

219.4 +0.7 from 2022 Global rank: 152nd

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density was 219.4 in 2023, increased +0.7 from 218.7 in 2022. This was the 152nd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2023▾

Population Density by Country - 2023
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Greenland	0.1	0.4%
2nd	Mongolia	2.2	1.3%
3rd	Australia	3.5	2.5%
4th	Namibia	3.6	2.5%
5th	Iceland	3.8	1.0%
6th	Guyana	3.9	0.6%
7th	Suriname	3.9	0.9%
8th	Libya	4.2	1.1%
9th	Botswana	4.4	1.7%
10th	Canada	4.6	2.9%
11th	Mauritania	4.9	3.0%
12th	Kazakhstan	7.5	1.5%
13th	Central African Republic	8.3	1.1%
14th	Russian Federation	8.8	-0.3%
15th	Gabon	9.6	2.2%
16th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	11.3	1.4%
17th	Norway	15.2	1.1%
18th	Chad	15.3	4.7%
19th	Turkmenistan	15.7	1.9%
20th	Saudi Arabia	15.7	4.7%
21st	New Caledonia	15.9	1.0%
22nd	Oman	16.3	6.7%
23rd	Argentina	16.6	0.3%
24th	Paraguay	17.3	1.2%
25th	Belize	18.0	2.1%
26th	Congo, Republic of	18.1	2.4%
27th	South Sudan	18.2	4.2%
28th	Finland	18.4	0.5%
29th	Uruguay	19.4	-0.1%
30th	Algeria	19.4	1.5%
31st	Mali	19.5	3.0%
32nd	New Zealand	19.7	2.3%
33rd	Bhutan	20.6	0.7%
34th	Niger	20.7	3.3%
35th	Papua New Guinea	22.9	1.8%
36th	Brazil	25.3	0.4%
37th	Sweden	25.9	0.5%
38th	Vanuatu	26.3	2.4%
39th	Peru	26.4	1.1%
40th	Chile	26.5	0.5%
41st	Sudan	26.8	1.3%
42nd	Zambia	27.9	2.8%
43rd	Solomon Islands	28.6	2.4%
44th	Eritrea	28.6	1.8%
45th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	29.3	3.1%
46th	Angola	29.5	3.1%
47th	Latvia	30.3	0.2%
48th	Estonia	32.1	1.6%
49th	Lao PDR	33.2	1.4%
50th	United States	36.8	0.8%
51st	Kyrgyz Republic	37.0	1.8%
52nd	Palau	38.5	-0.2%
53rd	Faroe Islands	39.7	0.9%
54th	Bahamas, The	39.9	0.5%
55th	Zimbabwe	42.2	1.7%
56th	Mozambique	42.8	3.0%
57th	Belarus	45.2	-0.5%
58th	Lithuania	45.9	1.4%
59th	Montenegro	46.4	0.0%
60th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	46.7	3.3%
61st	Colombia	47.2	1.1%
62nd	Turks and Caicos Islands	48.6	0.8%
63rd	Djibouti	49.7	1.4%
64th	Fiji	50.6	0.5%
65th	South Africa	52.1	1.3%
66th	Madagascar	53.6	2.5%
67th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	55.8	1.2%
68th	Nicaragua	56.7	1.4%
69th	Liberia	57.0	2.2%
70th	Guinea	58.6	2.5%
71st	Bulgaria	59.4	-0.3%
72nd	Cameroon	60.0	2.7%
73rd	Panama	60.1	1.3%
74th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	62.2	-0.6%
75th	Afghanistan	63.6	2.2%
76th	Georgia	65.0	0.1%
77th	Ukraine	65.1	-8.1%
78th	Equatorial Guinea	65.9	2.4%
79th	Mexico	66.7	0.9%
80th	Croatia	69.0	0.1%
81st	Eswatini	71.5	1.0%
82nd	Ecuador	72.4	0.9%
83rd	North Macedonia	72.5	-0.2%
84th	Yemen, Republic of	74.6	3.1%
85th	Tajikistan	74.9	2.0%
86th	Tanzania	75.2	2.9%
87th	Lesotho	76.1	1.1%
88th	Guinea-Bissau	76.6	2.3%
89th	Ireland	77.1	1.9%
90th	Samoa	77.9	0.7%
91st	Tunisia	78.5	0.7%
92nd	Serbia	78.8	-0.6%
93rd	Greece	80.7	-0.3%
94th	Uzbekistan	80.9	2.0%
95th	French Polynesia	81.0	0.3%
96th	Romania	82.8	0.1%
97th	Myanmar	82.9	0.7%
98th	Burkina Faso	84.2	2.3%
99th	Morocco	84.5	1.0%
100th	Moldova	85.4	-3.0%
101st	Brunei Darussalam	87.1	0.8%
102nd	Albania	88.1	-1.5%
103rd	Dominica	88.7	-0.5%
104th	Timor-Leste	93.1	1.1%
105th	Senegal	93.9	2.4%
106th	Honduras	95.1	1.7%
107th	Kenya	95.3	2.0%
108th	Spain	96.8	1.2%
109th	Côte d'Ivoire	98.0	2.5%
110th	Northern Mariana Islands	98.1	-2.0%
111th	Cambodia	98.7	1.3%
112th	Costa Rica	100.0	0.5%
113th	Iraq	103.8	2.3%
114th	Hungary	105.1	-0.1%
115th	Armenia	105.1	-0.2%
116th	Slovenia	105.3	0.4%
117th	Cuba	106.2	-0.4%
118th	Malaysia	106.9	1.2%
119th	Austria	110.7	1.0%
120th	Türkiye	110.9	0.4%
121st	Slovak Republic	112.9	-0.1%
122nd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	115.1	1.7%
123rd	Portugal	115.5	1.4%
124th	Sierra Leone	117.2	2.2%
125th	Poland	119.8	-0.4%
126th	Azerbaijan	122.9	0.1%
127th	Benin	125.1	2.6%
128th	France	126.9	0.3%
129th	Syrian Arab Republic	128.5	5.0%
130th	Jordan	128.8	1.6%
131st	Cabo Verde	129.6	0.5%
132nd	Thailand	140.3	0.0%
133rd	Czechia	140.8	1.8%
134th	Tonga	145.3	-0.4%
135th	Cyprus	145.6	1.0%
136th	United Arab Emirates	147.6	4.1%
137th	Isle of Man	147.7	0.0%
138th	Ghana	148.5	1.9%
139th	Indonesia	148.6	0.8%
140th	Denmark	148.7	0.7%
141st	China	150.3	-0.1%
142nd	Micronesia, Federated States of	160.9	0.5%
143rd	Kiribati	163.6	1.6%
144th	Guatemala	169.1	1.6%
145th	Togo	171.1	2.4%
146th	Andorra	172.0	1.4%
147th	St. Kitts and Nevis	179.8	0.1%
148th	Italy	199.5	0.0%
149th	Nepal	207.1	-0.1%
150th	Antigua and Barbuda	212.1	0.5%
151st	Marshall Islands	215.7	-3.1%
152nd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	219.4	0.3%
153rd	Malawi	223.8	2.6%
154th	Switzerland	225.0	1.3%
155th	Qatar	231.2	0.0%
156th	Dominican Republic	235.1	0.9%
157th	American Samoa	237.6	-1.7%
158th	Germany	238.4	0.1%
159th	São Tomé and Principe	240.5	2.0%
160th	Uganda	242.7	2.8%
161st	Liechtenstein	249.0	0.9%
162nd	Nigeria	250.2	2.1%
163rd	Luxembourg	258.9	2.0%
164th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	259.8	-0.7%
165th	British Virgin Islands	259.9	1.7%
166th	Seychelles	260.4	-0.1%
167th	Jamaica	262.2	0.0%
168th	Trinidad and Tobago	266.6	0.1%
169th	Gambia, The	266.6	2.3%
170th	Kuwait	272.4	5.7%
171st	United Kingdom	283.1	1.3%
172nd	St. Lucia	293.9	0.3%
173rd	Virgin Islands (US)	299.8	-0.5%
174th	Cayman Islands	304.3	2.0%
175th	El Salvador	304.5	0.5%
176th	Guam	308.3	0.8%
177th	Viet Nam	320.2	0.7%
178th	Pakistan	321.1	1.6%
179th	Tuvalu	327.2	-1.8%
180th	Japan	341.5	-0.5%
181st	Grenada	344.4	0.1%
182nd	Curaçao	348.3	0.9%
183rd	Sri Lanka	356.2	-0.6%
184th	Puerto Rico (US)	361.2	-0.5%
185th	Philippines	385.3	0.8%
186th	Belgium	386.3	0.9%
187th	Haiti	422.3	1.2%
188th	Israel	455.1	3.0%
189th	Comoros	457.0	1.9%
190th	India	483.7	0.9%
191st	Korea	529.8	0.1%
192nd	Netherlands	531.0	1.0%
193rd	Burundi	533.1	2.8%
194th	St. Martin (French part)	550.3	-4.7%
195th	San Marino	564.3	0.3%
196th	Lebanon	564.4	0.5%
197th	Rwanda	565.6	2.2%
198th	Nauru	593.8	0.6%
199th	Aruba	596.4	0.0%
200th	Mauritius	625.3	-1.1%
201st	Barbados	656.6	0.0%
202nd	West Bank and Gaza	857.4	2.4%
203rd	Bermuda	1,198.1	-0.1%
204th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	1,257.3	1.4%
205th	Bangladesh	1,319.2	1.4%
206th	Malta	1,727.3	4.1%
207th	Maldives	1,765.1	1.0%
208th	Bahrain	1,971.3	2.1%
209th	Gibraltar	3,847.1	2.3%
210th	Hong Kong SAR, China	7,177.2	2.6%
211th	Singapore	8,241.8	5.0%
212th	Monaco	18,692.9	0.1%
213th	Macao SAR, China	20,569.7	0.2%

FAQ

What was Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density in 2023?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density in 2023 was 219.4. This ranked 152nd globally.

How did Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density change in 2023?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density increased by 0.3% in 2023 compared to 2022.

Which country had the highest population density in 2023?▾

Macao SAR, China had the highest population density in 2023 at 20,569.7.

What is the population density of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2023?▾

The population density of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of in 2023 was 219.4. This ranked 152nd globally.

How does 2023 compare to 2022 for Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density?▾

Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of's population density went from 218.7 in 2022 to 219.4 in 2023, a 0.3% increase.

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