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New Zealand - Population Density 2015

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People per sq. km of land area · World Bank

17.5 +0.4 from 2014 Global rank: 30th

New Zealand's population density was 17.5 in 2015, increased +0.4 from 17.2 in 2014. This was the 30th 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 New Zealand's population density in 2015?▾

New Zealand's population density in 2015 was 17.5. This ranked 30th globally.

How did New Zealand's population density change in 2015?▾

New Zealand's population density increased by 2.1% 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 New Zealand in 2015?▾

The population density of New Zealand in 2015 was 17.5. This ranked 30th globally.

How does 2015 compare to 2014 for New Zealand's population density?▾

New Zealand's population density went from 17.2 in 2014 to 17.5 in 2015, a 2.1% increase.

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