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Sri Lanka - Population Density 2009

Name: Sri Lanka Population Density 2009
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People per sq. km of land area · World Bank

331.0 +2.0 from 2008 Global rank: 180th

Sri Lanka's population density was 331.0 in 2009, increased +2.0 from 329.0 in 2008. This was the 180th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2009▾

Population Density by Country - 2009
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Greenland	0.1	0.0%
2nd	Mongolia	1.7	1.8%
3rd	Namibia	2.5	1.5%
4th	Australia	2.8	2.1%
5th	Iceland	3.2	0.3%
6th	Mauritania	3.2	3.2%
7th	Suriname	3.4	1.2%
8th	Botswana	3.5	2.1%
9th	Libya	3.6	2.1%
10th	Canada	3.8	1.2%
11th	Guyana	3.8	-0.3%
12th	Kazakhstan	6.2	1.2%
13th	Gabon	6.4	3.4%
14th	Central African Republic	7.3	-0.7%
15th	Oman	8.7	2.2%
16th	Russian Federation	8.7	0.0%
17th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	9.2	1.7%
18th	Chad	9.4	3.6%
19th	Saudi Arabia	11.3	4.0%
20th	Turkmenistan	11.6	2.0%
21st	Congo, Republic of	12.5	4.1%
22nd	Niger	12.6	3.8%
23rd	Mali	12.7	3.3%
24th	Norway	13.2	1.3%
25th	Belize	13.7	2.7%
26th	New Caledonia	14.1	1.3%
27th	Paraguay	14.3	1.0%
28th	Algeria	14.9	1.9%
29th	Argentina	14.9	1.1%
30th	New Zealand	16.3	1.0%
31st	Papua New Guinea	16.4	3.1%
32nd	Finland	17.6	0.5%
33rd	Angola	18.0	3.9%
34th	Zambia	18.1	3.6%
35th	Bhutan	18.2	1.1%
36th	Solomon Islands	18.5	1.8%
37th	Uruguay	18.9	0.2%
38th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	19.1	2.6%
39th	Vanuatu	19.1	2.6%
40th	Peru	22.6	0.6%
41st	Sweden	22.8	0.9%
42nd	Chile	22.9	1.0%
43rd	Brazil	23.0	0.9%
44th	Eritrea	23.9	2.5%
45th	Lao PDR	27.0	1.5%
46th	Kyrgyz Republic	28.1	1.3%
47th	Mozambique	28.5	2.6%
48th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	29.3	3.1%
49th	Turks and Caicos Islands	30.1	4.2%
50th	Estonia	31.5	-0.2%
51st	United States	33.5	0.9%
52nd	Zimbabwe	34.0	1.4%
53rd	Latvia	34.4	-1.6%
54th	Faroe Islands	35.0	0.5%
55th	Bahamas, The	36.2	1.3%
56th	Madagascar	37.1	3.0%
57th	Djibouti	39.3	2.1%
58th	Colombia	39.9	1.2%
59th	Cameroon	40.4	2.9%
60th	Equatorial Guinea	40.5	4.7%
61st	Palau	40.7	-1.6%
62nd	Liberia	40.9	3.2%
63rd	Guinea	41.3	2.5%
64th	Afghanistan	42.1	3.7%
65th	South Africa	42.6	1.2%
66th	Montenegro	46.0	0.2%
67th	Belarus	46.8	-0.2%
68th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	46.9	1.2%
69th	Nicaragua	47.0	1.4%
70th	Panama	47.9	1.8%
71st	Yemen, Republic of	49.1	3.2%
72nd	Tanzania	49.3	2.5%
73rd	Fiji	49.7	0.4%
74th	Lithuania	50.5	-1.1%
75th	Tajikistan	53.5	2.1%
76th	Guinea-Bissau	54.3	2.6%
77th	Burkina Faso	57.4	3.0%
78th	Mexico	57.6	1.5%
79th	Ecuador	59.7	1.7%
80th	Senegal	64.1	2.4%
81st	Uzbekistan	64.1	1.6%
82nd	Eswatini	64.3	0.6%
83rd	Lesotho	65.2	0.7%
84th	Ireland	65.8	1.0%
85th	Georgia	66.7	-0.9%
86th	Samoa	67.7	0.7%
87th	Tunisia	68.6	1.0%
88th	Bulgaria	68.6	-0.6%
89th	Côte d'Ivoire	69.2	2.2%
90th	Iraq	69.2	4.5%
91st	Kenya	71.0	3.1%
92nd	Timor-Leste	71.2	2.6%
93rd	Morocco	71.8	1.3%
94th	Brunei Darussalam	73.0	1.9%
95th	Honduras	73.2	2.2%
96th	Myanmar	74.5	0.6%
97th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	75.8	-1.7%
98th	Croatia	76.9	-0.1%
99th	French Polynesia	77.6	0.4%
100th	North Macedonia	77.7	-0.6%
101st	Jordan	80.4	1.6%
102nd	Ukraine	80.5	-0.4%
103rd	Cambodia	80.9	1.6%
104th	Serbia	83.7	-0.4%
105th	Sierra Leone	83.9	2.7%
106th	Benin	84.3	3.0%
107th	Malaysia	85.6	2.0%
108th	Greece	86.2	0.3%
109th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	87.9	1.9%
110th	Costa Rica	88.1	1.3%
111th	Romania	88.5	-0.9%
112th	Dominica	91.8	0.0%
113th	Spain	93.0	0.9%
114th	Türkiye	93.6	1.4%
115th	United Arab Emirates	94.4	6.4%
116th	Moldova	99.7	-0.1%
117th	Austria	101.1	0.3%
118th	Slovenia	101.2	0.9%
119th	Cuba	106.1	0.0%
120th	Albania	106.8	-0.7%
121st	Armenia	107.7	-0.7%
122nd	Azerbaijan	108.3	2.1%
123rd	Ghana	109.3	2.5%
124th	European Union	110.5	0.2%
125th	Hungary	110.7	-1.2%
126th	Slovak Republic	112.0	0.2%
127th	Portugal	115.4	0.0%
128th	Syrian Arab Republic	119.7	1.6%
129th	France	120.1	0.5%
130th	Cyprus	120.1	1.7%
131st	Northern Mariana Islands	120.3	-3.2%
132nd	Togo	120.5	2.9%
133rd	Poland	124.6	0.1%
134th	Cabo Verde	125.6	1.0%
135th	Indonesia	129.5	1.3%
136th	Kiribati	131.4	2.2%
137th	Guatemala	132.7	2.0%
138th	Thailand	133.3	0.7%
139th	Czechia	135.2	0.6%
140th	Denmark	138.1	0.5%
141st	Qatar	138.6	12.8%
142nd	China	141.8	0.5%
143rd	Isle of Man	145.5	1.1%
144th	Tonga	148.9	0.2%
145th	Malawi	152.7	3.0%
146th	Micronesia, Federated States of	154.2	-0.9%
147th	Kuwait	156.9	5.4%
148th	Uganda	157.4	3.0%
149th	Nigeria	177.9	2.8%
150th	Andorra	178.5	0.5%
151st	St. Kitts and Nevis	180.4	0.2%
152nd	British Virgin Islands	181.5	3.5%
153rd	Gambia, The	184.9	2.9%
154th	São Tomé and Principe	185.3	2.3%
155th	Nepal	189.6	0.7%
156th	Seychelles	189.8	0.4%
157th	Antigua and Barbuda	191.3	1.5%
158th	Luxembourg	193.4	1.9%
159th	Switzerland	196.0	1.3%
160th	Dominican Republic	200.7	1.3%
161st	Italy	201.4	0.6%
162nd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	206.6	0.5%
163rd	Cayman Islands	219.2	2.9%
164th	Liechtenstein	223.4	0.8%
165th	Germany	234.9	-0.2%
166th	Pakistan	252.1	2.6%
167th	Jamaica	252.7	0.4%
168th	Trinidad and Tobago	255.4	0.1%
169th	United Kingdom	257.4	0.8%
170th	Viet Nam	276.4	1.5%
171st	American Samoa	277.6	-0.5%
172nd	St. Lucia	278.5	0.6%
173rd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	283.4	-0.5%
174th	Marshall Islands	289.0	0.0%
175th	El Salvador	291.9	0.3%
176th	Guam	307.7	0.3%
177th	Virgin Islands (US)	309.7	0.0%
178th	Philippines	316.5	1.8%
179th	Grenada	327.2	0.3%
180th	Sri Lanka	331.0	0.6%
181st	Comoros	344.9	2.0%
182nd	Israel	345.9	2.4%
183rd	Burundi	348.4	5.2%
184th	Tuvalu	348.7	1.4%
185th	Japan	351.3	0.0%
186th	Haiti	351.6	1.7%
187th	Belgium	355.9	0.8%
188th	Rwanda	407.8	2.6%
189th	India	412.2	1.5%
190th	Puerto Rico (US)	421.7	-0.5%
191st	Lebanon	488.0	1.4%
192nd	Netherlands	490.1	0.6%
193rd	Nauru	500.8	0.1%
194th	Korea	508.0	0.4%
195th	San Marino	551.1	4.4%
196th	Aruba	564.5	0.7%
197th	West Bank and Gaza	612.8	2.7%
198th	Mauritius	614.5	0.3%
199th	Barbados	637.5	0.5%
200th	Channel Islands	795.5	0.7%
201st	Bangladesh	1,159.1	0.9%
202nd	Maldives	1,160.9	3.6%
203rd	Bermuda	1,177.1	0.4%
204th	Malta	1,289.0	0.8%
205th	Bahrain	1,550.5	6.8%
206th	Gibraltar	3,082.3	1.3%
207th	Hong Kong SAR, China	6,640.8	0.2%
208th	Singapore	7,125.1	3.1%
209th	Monaco	15,966.5	1.7%
210th	Macao SAR, China	18,135.6	-2.1%

FAQ

What was Sri Lanka's population density in 2009?▾

Sri Lanka's population density in 2009 was 331.0. This ranked 180th globally.

How did Sri Lanka's population density change in 2009?▾

Sri Lanka's population density increased by 0.6% in 2009 compared to 2008.

Which country had the highest population density in 2009?▾

Macao SAR, China had the highest population density in 2009 at 18,135.6.

What is the population density of Sri Lanka in 2009?▾

The population density of Sri Lanka in 2009 was 331.0. This ranked 180th globally.

How does 2009 compare to 2008 for Sri Lanka's population density?▾

Sri Lanka's population density went from 329.0 in 2008 to 331.0 in 2009, a 0.6% increase.

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