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São Tomé and Principe - Population Density 2018

Name: São Tomé and Principe Population Density 2018
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People per sq. km of land area · World Bank

218.9 +3.4 from 2017 Global rank: 157th

São Tomé and Principe's population density was 218.9 in 2018, increased +3.4 from 215.6 in 2017. This was the 157th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2018▾

Population Density by Country - 2018
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Greenland	0.1	-0.3%
2nd	Mongolia	2.1	1.9%
3rd	Namibia	3.1	2.8%
4th	Australia	3.2	1.5%
5th	Iceland	3.5	2.1%
6th	Suriname	3.7	1.0%
7th	Libya	3.9	1.6%
8th	Guyana	4.0	3.0%
9th	Botswana	4.1	1.4%
10th	Canada	4.1	1.4%
11th	Mauritania	4.2	3.0%
12th	Kazakhstan	7.0	1.5%
13th	Central African Republic	7.8	1.8%
14th	Gabon	8.6	2.6%
15th	Russian Federation	8.9	0.1%
16th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	10.6	1.4%
17th	Chad	12.8	3.4%
18th	Saudi Arabia	14.0	-2.5%
19th	Turkmenistan	14.2	2.3%
20th	Norway	14.5	0.7%
21st	Oman	14.9	1.3%
22nd	New Caledonia	15.5	0.0%
23rd	South Sudan	16.0	-1.3%
24th	Congo, Republic of	16.1	2.5%
25th	Paraguay	16.2	1.4%
26th	Argentina	16.3	0.8%
27th	Belize	16.7	1.9%
28th	Mali	16.8	3.2%
29th	Niger	17.5	3.5%
30th	Algeria	17.8	2.0%
31st	Finland	18.1	0.1%
32nd	New Zealand	18.6	1.8%
33rd	Uruguay	19.4	0.2%
34th	Bhutan	19.9	0.7%
35th	Papua New Guinea	20.7	2.4%
36th	Vanuatu	23.4	2.4%
37th	Sudan	23.7	3.5%
38th	Zambia	24.2	3.1%
39th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	24.6	3.6%
40th	Brazil	24.7	0.7%
41st	Peru	24.9	1.8%
42nd	Sweden	25.0	1.2%
43rd	Angola	25.1	3.5%
44th	Solomon Islands	25.3	3.4%
45th	Chile	25.5	1.8%
46th	Eritrea	26.4	1.3%
47th	Lao PDR	30.9	1.6%
48th	Estonia	30.9	0.3%
49th	Latvia	31.0	-0.8%
50th	Kyrgyz Republic	33.6	2.2%
51st	United States	35.9	0.6%
52nd	Faroe Islands	36.5	1.6%
53rd	Mozambique	36.9	3.0%
54th	Palau	38.7	0.0%
55th	Zimbabwe	38.9	1.5%
56th	Bahamas, The	39.2	0.6%
57th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	39.7	3.4%
58th	Turks and Caicos Islands	43.7	4.1%
59th	Colombia	44.2	1.9%
60th	Lithuania	45.0	-0.8%
61st	Djibouti	46.2	1.6%
62nd	Belarus	46.5	-0.2%
63rd	Montenegro	46.6	0.1%
64th	Madagascar	47.3	2.6%
65th	South Africa	48.3	1.7%
66th	Fiji	50.2	-0.2%
67th	Liberia	51.3	2.0%
68th	Guinea	51.7	2.6%
69th	Cameroon	52.5	2.8%
70th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	53.1	1.3%
71st	Nicaragua	53.2	1.3%
72nd	Panama	56.2	1.6%
73rd	Afghanistan	56.3	3.0%
74th	Equatorial Guinea	57.6	3.5%
75th	Bulgaria	61.8	-1.4%
76th	Mexico	64.1	1.0%
77th	Yemen, Republic of	64.6	3.0%
78th	Tanzania	64.8	3.2%
79th	Georgia	65.2	0.0%
80th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	66.2	-1.2%
81st	Tajikistan	67.1	2.4%
82nd	Eswatini	68.0	0.9%
83rd	Guinea-Bissau	68.4	2.4%
84th	Ecuador	68.6	1.7%
85th	Ireland	71.1	1.5%
86th	Croatia	71.3	-1.3%
87th	Lesotho	71.9	1.2%
88th	Uzbekistan	73.5	1.7%
89th	Samoa	74.7	1.1%
90th	Burkina Faso	74.7	2.7%
91st	North Macedonia	74.9	-0.5%
92nd	Tunisia	75.7	1.0%
93rd	Ukraine	78.0	-0.5%
94th	Serbia	79.8	-0.5%
95th	Myanmar	80.1	0.7%
96th	Morocco	80.3	1.1%
97th	French Polynesia	80.6	-0.1%
98th	Senegal	82.7	2.8%
99th	Brunei Darussalam	83.1	1.2%
100th	Greece	83.3	-0.2%
101st	Romania	84.6	-0.6%
102nd	Timor-Leste	85.8	1.9%
103rd	Côte d'Ivoire	86.4	2.7%
104th	Kenya	87.0	1.7%
105th	Honduras	87.3	1.8%
106th	Dominica	90.9	-0.5%
107th	Cambodia	92.2	1.3%
108th	Iraq	92.8	2.4%
109th	Spain	93.6	0.4%
110th	Moldova	94.3	-1.7%
111th	Albania	95.2	-1.5%
112th	Costa Rica	97.1	0.9%
113th	Malaysia	100.2	1.7%
114th	Slovenia	103.0	0.4%
115th	Armenia	104.3	-0.3%
116th	Sierra Leone	104.7	2.4%
117th	Türkiye	105.8	1.4%
118th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	106.2	1.9%
119th	Hungary	106.4	-0.2%
120th	Syrian Arab Republic	106.6	1.8%
121st	Northern Mariana Islands	106.7	-1.8%
122nd	Austria	107.1	0.5%
123rd	Cuba	108.2	-0.2%
124th	Benin	109.8	2.9%
125th	European Union	111.7	0.2%
126th	Portugal	112.3	-0.2%
127th	Slovak Republic	113.3	0.1%
128th	Jordan	117.8	2.2%
129th	Azerbaijan	120.3	0.9%
130th	Poland	124.0	0.0%
131st	France	124.6	0.4%
132nd	Cabo Verde	127.4	0.1%
133rd	United Arab Emirates	131.6	1.3%
134th	Ghana	134.6	2.1%
135th	Cyprus	137.5	1.3%
136th	Czechia	137.7	0.3%
137th	Thailand	139.7	0.3%
138th	Indonesia	143.8	1.0%
139th	Denmark	144.8	0.5%
140th	Tonga	146.6	0.2%
141st	Isle of Man	147.0	0.2%
142nd	China	149.4	0.5%
143rd	Kiribati	150.7	1.5%
144th	Togo	151.8	2.5%
145th	Micronesia, Federated States of	157.0	0.4%
146th	Guatemala	157.2	1.7%
147th	Andorra	159.9	1.9%
148th	St. Kitts and Nevis	180.8	-0.1%
149th	Nepal	195.9	0.2%
150th	Malawi	196.5	2.7%
151st	Italy	203.4	0.2%
152nd	Antigua and Barbuda	206.7	0.5%
153rd	Uganda	207.3	3.5%
154th	Seychelles	210.4	1.0%
155th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	215.4	0.4%
156th	Switzerland	215.5	0.7%
157th	São Tomé and Principe	218.9	1.6%
158th	Dominican Republic	223.2	1.1%
159th	Qatar	224.6	1.4%
160th	Nigeria	225.0	2.3%
161st	British Virgin Islands	231.0	6.0%
162nd	Luxembourg	236.1	1.9%
163rd	Gambia, The	237.1	2.5%
164th	Germany	237.3	0.3%
165th	Liechtenstein	239.0	0.7%
166th	Kuwait	242.6	4.1%
167th	Marshall Islands	251.6	-2.7%
168th	American Samoa	254.5	-1.3%
169th	Jamaica	260.4	0.2%
170th	Trinidad and Tobago	264.9	0.2%
171st	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	269.0	-0.7%
172nd	United Kingdom	274.0	0.5%
173rd	Cayman Islands	274.8	2.2%
174th	St. Lucia	290.2	0.4%
175th	Pakistan	294.4	1.6%
176th	El Salvador	300.2	0.1%
177th	Guam	301.3	-0.5%
178th	Virgin Islands (US)	305.7	-0.3%
179th	Viet Nam	307.0	1.1%
180th	Grenada	340.3	0.2%
181st	Japan	347.9	-0.1%
182nd	Sri Lanka	350.3	1.1%
183rd	Tuvalu	358.4	-1.1%
184th	Curaçao	358.9	-0.5%
185th	Philippines	367.1	1.2%
186th	Puerto Rico (US)	371.0	-3.5%
187th	Belgium	374.7	-0.1%
188th	Haiti	397.8	1.3%
189th	Israel	410.5	1.9%
190th	Comoros	414.6	2.0%
191st	Burundi	461.8	3.1%
192nd	India	462.4	1.1%
193rd	Rwanda	506.2	2.3%
194th	Netherlands	511.8	0.6%
195th	Korea	529.0	0.4%
196th	Nauru	573.9	1.4%
197th	San Marino	575.4	2.1%
198th	Lebanon	585.0	-2.9%
199th	Aruba	605.0	0.2%
200th	Mauritius	633.7	0.1%
201st	Barbados	652.8	0.2%
202nd	St. Martin (French part)	720.2	-2.2%
203rd	West Bank and Gaza	759.0	2.6%
204th	Channel Islands	833.1	0.4%
205th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	1,168.0	1.8%
206th	Bermuda	1,182.1	0.4%
207th	Bangladesh	1,256.2	0.8%
208th	Malta	1,512.2	3.6%
209th	Maldives	1,577.0	3.2%
210th	Bahrain	1,932.0	0.4%
211th	Gibraltar	3,485.4	1.8%
212th	Hong Kong SAR, China	7,097.7	0.8%
213th	Singapore	7,897.3	0.2%
214th	Monaco	18,822.9	1.3%
215th	Macao SAR, China	20,027.4	-4.9%

FAQ

What was São Tomé and Principe's population density in 2018?▾

São Tomé and Principe's population density in 2018 was 218.9. This ranked 157th globally.

How did São Tomé and Principe's population density change in 2018?▾

São Tomé and Principe's population density increased by 1.6% in 2018 compared to 2017.

Which country had the highest population density in 2018?▾

Macao SAR, China had the highest population density in 2018 at 20,027.4.

What is the population density of São Tomé and Principe in 2018?▾

The population density of São Tomé and Principe in 2018 was 218.9. This ranked 157th globally.

How does 2018 compare to 2017 for São Tomé and Principe's population density?▾

São Tomé and Principe's population density went from 215.6 in 2017 to 218.9 in 2018, a 1.6% increase.

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