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New Zealand - Population Density 2023

Name: New Zealand Population Density 2023
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People per sq. km of land area · World Bank

19.7 +0.4 from 2022 Global rank: 32nd

New Zealand's population density was 19.7 in 2023, increased +0.4 from 19.3 in 2022. This was the 32nd 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 New Zealand's population density in 2023?▾

New Zealand's population density in 2023 was 19.7. This ranked 32nd globally.

How did New Zealand's population density change in 2023?▾

New Zealand's population density increased by 2.3% 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 New Zealand in 2023?▾

The population density of New Zealand in 2023 was 19.7. This ranked 32nd globally.

How does 2023 compare to 2022 for New Zealand's population density?▾

New Zealand's population density went from 19.3 in 2022 to 19.7 in 2023, a 2.3% increase.

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