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Libya - Population Density 2017

Name: Libya Population Density 2017
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People per sq. km of land area · World Bank

3.8 +0.1 from 2016 Global rank: 7th

Libya's population density was 3.8 in 2017, increased +0.1 from 3.8 in 2016. This was the 7th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2017▾

Population Density by Country - 2017
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Greenland	0.1	0.0%
2nd	Mongolia	2.0	1.9%
3rd	Namibia	3.0	2.8%
4th	Australia	3.2	1.7%
5th	Iceland	3.4	2.4%
6th	Suriname	3.7	1.0%
7th	Libya	3.8	1.6%
8th	Guyana	3.9	0.6%
9th	Botswana	4.0	1.4%
10th	Canada	4.1	1.2%
11th	Mauritania	4.1	3.0%
12th	Kazakhstan	6.9	1.6%
13th	Central African Republic	7.7	1.7%
14th	Gabon	8.4	2.7%
15th	Russian Federation	8.9	0.2%
16th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	10.5	1.5%
17th	Chad	12.4	3.4%
18th	Turkmenistan	13.8	2.3%
19th	Saudi Arabia	14.4	0.1%
20th	Norway	14.5	0.8%
21st	Oman	14.7	3.3%
22nd	New Caledonia	15.5	0.0%
23rd	Congo, Republic of	15.7	2.5%
24th	Paraguay	16.0	1.4%
25th	Argentina	16.2	0.9%
26th	South Sudan	16.2	-5.3%
27th	Mali	16.2	3.2%
28th	Belize	16.4	2.3%
29th	Niger	16.9	3.6%
30th	Algeria	17.5	2.1%
31st	Finland	18.1	0.2%
32nd	New Zealand	18.3	2.1%
33rd	Uruguay	19.4	0.3%
34th	Bhutan	19.8	0.9%
35th	Papua New Guinea	20.3	2.4%
36th	Vanuatu	22.8	2.4%
37th	Sudan	22.9	3.5%
38th	Zambia	23.5	3.1%
39th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	23.8	4.0%
40th	Angola	24.3	3.6%
41st	Peru	24.5	1.5%
42nd	Brazil	24.5	0.7%
43rd	Solomon Islands	24.5	3.5%
44th	Sweden	24.7	1.4%
45th	Chile	25.0	1.6%
46th	Eritrea	26.0	0.8%
47th	Lao PDR	30.4	1.6%
48th	Estonia	30.8	1.8%
49th	Latvia	31.2	-0.9%
50th	Kyrgyz Republic	32.9	2.1%
51st	United States	35.7	0.7%
52nd	Mozambique	35.8	3.0%
53rd	Faroe Islands	35.9	1.4%
54th	Zimbabwe	38.3	1.5%
55th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	38.4	3.7%
56th	Palau	38.7	0.1%
57th	Bahamas, The	39.0	0.6%
58th	Turks and Caicos Islands	42.0	4.2%
59th	Colombia	43.4	1.5%
60th	Lithuania	45.4	-1.2%
61st	Djibouti	45.5	1.7%
62nd	Madagascar	46.0	2.6%
63rd	Montenegro	46.5	0.1%
64th	Belarus	46.6	-0.1%
65th	South Africa	47.5	0.7%
66th	Fiji	50.3	0.0%
67th	Liberia	50.3	2.0%
68th	Guinea	50.4	2.6%
69th	Cameroon	51.0	2.9%
70th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	52.4	1.8%
71st	Nicaragua	52.5	1.3%
72nd	Afghanistan	54.7	2.8%
73rd	Panama	55.3	1.7%
74th	Equatorial Guinea	55.7	3.6%
75th	Bulgaria	62.7	-1.3%
76th	Yemen, Republic of	62.7	3.1%
77th	Tanzania	62.8	3.4%
78th	Mexico	63.5	0.9%
79th	Georgia	65.2	0.0%
80th	Tajikistan	65.5	2.5%
81st	Guinea-Bissau	66.8	2.5%
82nd	Bosnia and Herzegovina	67.0	-1.3%
83rd	Eswatini	67.3	0.8%
84th	Ecuador	67.5	1.5%
85th	Ireland	70.1	1.4%
86th	Lesotho	71.1	1.3%
87th	Croatia	72.2	-1.6%
88th	Uzbekistan	72.2	1.7%
89th	Burkina Faso	72.7	2.9%
90th	Samoa	73.9	2.8%
91st	Tunisia	75.0	1.1%
92nd	North Macedonia	75.3	-0.4%
93rd	Ukraine	78.4	-0.4%
94th	Morocco	79.4	1.2%
95th	Myanmar	79.5	0.8%
96th	Serbia	80.3	-0.5%
97th	Senegal	80.4	2.9%
98th	French Polynesia	80.7	0.3%
99th	Brunei Darussalam	82.1	1.2%
100th	Greece	83.4	-0.2%
101st	Côte d'Ivoire	84.1	2.9%
102nd	Timor-Leste	84.2	1.9%
103rd	Romania	85.1	-0.6%
104th	Kenya	85.6	1.9%
105th	Honduras	85.7	1.9%
106th	Iraq	90.6	2.3%
107th	Cambodia	91.1	1.4%
108th	Dominica	91.3	-1.6%
109th	Spain	93.2	0.2%
110th	Moldova	95.9	-1.7%
111th	Costa Rica	96.2	0.9%
112th	Albania	96.7	-1.5%
113th	Malaysia	98.5	1.8%
114th	Sierra Leone	102.2	2.4%
115th	Slovenia	102.6	0.1%
116th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	104.2	2.0%
117th	Türkiye	104.4	1.3%
118th	Armenia	104.7	-0.4%
119th	Syrian Arab Republic	104.7	0.2%
120th	Hungary	106.6	-0.3%
121st	Austria	106.6	0.7%
122nd	Benin	106.8	2.9%
123rd	Cuba	108.4	0.1%
124th	Northern Mariana Islands	108.6	-1.6%
125th	European Union	111.4	0.2%
126th	Portugal	112.4	-0.2%
127th	Slovak Republic	113.1	0.2%
128th	Jordan	115.3	2.3%
129th	Azerbaijan	119.2	1.0%
130th	Poland	124.0	0.0%
131st	France	124.2	0.3%
132nd	Cabo Verde	127.3	0.1%
133rd	United Arab Emirates	129.9	3.2%
134th	Ghana	131.9	2.2%
135th	Cyprus	135.7	1.4%
136th	Czechia	137.2	0.3%
137th	Thailand	139.3	0.4%
138th	Indonesia	142.4	1.0%
139th	Denmark	144.1	0.6%
140th	Tonga	146.3	-0.2%
141st	Isle of Man	146.7	0.2%
142nd	Togo	148.1	2.5%
143rd	Kiribati	148.5	1.5%
144th	China	148.7	0.6%
145th	Guatemala	154.6	1.8%
146th	Micronesia, Federated States of	156.4	0.4%
147th	Andorra	156.9	2.2%
148th	St. Kitts and Nevis	181.0	-0.1%
149th	Malawi	191.3	2.7%
150th	Nepal	195.4	0.2%
151st	Uganda	200.4	3.6%
152nd	Italy	202.9	-0.2%
153rd	Antigua and Barbuda	205.6	0.6%
154th	Seychelles	208.4	1.2%
155th	Switzerland	213.9	0.9%
156th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	214.4	0.5%
157th	São Tomé and Principe	215.6	1.6%
158th	British Virgin Islands	218.0	-3.5%
159th	Nigeria	219.9	2.5%
160th	Dominican Republic	220.8	1.1%
161st	Qatar	221.6	2.8%
162nd	Gambia, The	231.4	2.6%
163rd	Luxembourg	231.6	2.5%
164th	Kuwait	233.2	3.8%
165th	Germany	236.6	0.4%
166th	Liechtenstein	237.3	0.7%
167th	American Samoa	257.9	-1.3%
168th	Marshall Islands	258.5	-2.5%
169th	Jamaica	260.0	0.2%
170th	Trinidad and Tobago	264.5	0.2%
171st	Cayman Islands	268.9	2.3%
172nd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	270.9	-0.6%
173rd	United Kingdom	272.7	0.5%
174th	St. Lucia	289.1	0.4%
175th	Pakistan	289.6	1.4%
176th	El Salvador	299.9	0.2%
177th	Guam	302.8	-0.5%
178th	Viet Nam	303.7	1.2%
179th	Virgin Islands (US)	306.5	-0.2%
180th	Grenada	339.5	0.3%
181st	Sri Lanka	346.6	1.2%
182nd	Japan	348.3	-0.1%
183rd	Curaçao	360.8	0.3%
184th	Tuvalu	362.3	-0.6%
185th	Philippines	362.6	1.3%
186th	Belgium	375.0	0.4%
187th	Puerto Rico (US)	384.5	-2.0%
188th	Haiti	392.5	1.4%
189th	Israel	402.6	2.0%
190th	Comoros	406.6	2.0%
191st	Burundi	448.1	2.4%
192nd	India	457.3	1.2%
193rd	Rwanda	494.6	2.4%
194th	Netherlands	508.8	0.6%
195th	Korea	526.7	0.3%
196th	San Marino	563.8	2.2%
197th	Nauru	566.2	1.6%
198th	Lebanon	602.2	-2.6%
199th	Aruba	604.1	0.0%
200th	Mauritius	633.4	0.1%
201st	Barbados	651.6	0.2%
202nd	St. Martin (French part)	736.7	-0.9%
203rd	West Bank and Gaza	740.0	2.0%
204th	Channel Islands	829.9	0.3%
205th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	1,146.9	2.0%
206th	Bermuda	1,177.4	0.2%
207th	Bangladesh	1,246.0	0.9%
208th	Malta	1,459.7	2.8%
209th	Maldives	1,527.6	3.4%
210th	Bahrain	1,924.5	5.3%
211th	Gibraltar	3,424.5	1.7%
212th	Hong Kong SAR, China	7,041.1	0.8%
213th	Singapore	7,882.4	-0.3%
214th	Monaco	18,588.1	1.1%
215th	Macao SAR, China	21,051.9	-1.6%

FAQ

What was Libya's population density in 2017?▾

Libya's population density in 2017 was 3.8. This ranked 7th globally.

How did Libya's population density change in 2017?▾

Libya's population density increased by 1.6% in 2017 compared to 2016.

Which country had the highest population density in 2017?▾

Macao SAR, China had the highest population density in 2017 at 21,051.9.

What is the population density of Libya in 2017?▾

The population density of Libya in 2017 was 3.8. This ranked 7th globally.

How does 2017 compare to 2016 for Libya's population density?▾

Libya's population density went from 3.8 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2017, a 1.6% increase.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Libya matched the Export Boom Cycle pattern in 2017. Historically: 768 occurrences, 546 successful (71%). Outcome 24 months later: -11.2%. View full analysis →

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