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United Kingdom - Population Density 2025

Name: United Kingdom Population Density 2025
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People per sq. km of land area · World Bank

285.7 +2.6 from 2024 Global rank: 44th

United Kingdom's population density was 285.7 in 2025. This was the 44th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2025▾

Population Density by Country - 2025
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Macao SAR, China	20,598.7	0.1%
2nd	Monaco	18,564.1	-0.7%
3rd	Singapore	8,108.2	-1.6%
4th	Hong Kong SAR, China	7,071.8	-1.5%
5th	Gibraltar	3,987.7	3.7%
6th	Bahrain	1,993.7	1.1%
7th	Maldives	1,847.2	4.7%
8th	Malta	1,780.0	3.0%
9th	Bangladesh	1,341.3	1.7%
10th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	1,291.6	2.7%
11th	Bermuda	1,206.2	0.7%
12th	West Bank and Gaza	896.5	4.6%
13th	Barbados	658.4	0.3%
14th	Mauritius	624.3	-0.2%
15th	Nauru	600.8	1.2%
16th	Rwanda	589.3	4.2%
17th	Aruba	589.1	-1.2%
18th	Lebanon	561.7	-0.5%
19th	Burundi	560.7	5.2%
20th	San Marino	553.5	-1.9%
21st	Netherlands	537.8	1.3%
22nd	Korea	529.1	-0.1%
23rd	India	491.8	1.7%
24th	St. Martin (French part)	478.2	-13.1%
25th	Comoros	474.0	3.7%
26th	Israel	470.5	3.4%
27th	Haiti	431.9	2.3%
28th	Philippines	392.4	1.8%
29th	Belgium	390.4	1.1%
30th	Sri Lanka	360.7	1.2%
31st	Puerto Rico (US)	355.2	-1.7%
32nd	Grenada	346.2	0.5%
33rd	Curaçao	342.1	-1.8%
34th	Japan	338.7	-0.8%
35th	Pakistan	332.3	3.5%
36th	Viet Nam	325.5	1.7%
37th	Cayman Islands	316.2	3.9%
38th	Tuvalu	314.1	-4.0%
39th	Guam	312.7	1.4%
40th	El Salvador	306.4	0.6%
41st	Virgin Islands (US)	297.4	-0.8%
42nd	St. Lucia	295.1	0.4%
43rd	Seychelles	289.7	11.3%
44th	United Kingdom	285.7	0.9%
45th	Gambia, The	278.4	4.4%
46th	Kuwait	276.9	1.7%
47th	British Virgin Islands	268.5	3.3%
48th	Luxembourg	267.3	3.3%
49th	Trinidad and Tobago	266.8	0.1%
50th	Jamaica	263.2	0.4%
51st	Nigeria	260.2	4.0%
52nd	Uganda	257.0	5.9%
53rd	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	256.2	-1.4%
54th	Liechtenstein	252.9	1.5%
55th	São Tomé and Principe	249.5	3.7%
56th	Dominican Republic	239.8	2.0%
57th	Germany	238.5	0.1%
58th	Malawi	234.8	4.9%
59th	American Samoa	231.5	-2.6%
60th	Switzerland	228.4	1.5%
61st	Qatar	227.1	-1.8%
62nd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	221.0	0.7%
63rd	Antigua and Barbuda	214.3	1.1%
64th	Nepal	213.3	3.0%
65th	Marshall Islands	201.1	-6.8%
66th	Italy	197.8	-0.8%
67th	St. Kitts and Nevis	179.2	-0.4%
68th	Togo	178.7	4.5%
69th	Andorra	176.6	2.6%
70th	Guatemala	173.8	2.7%
71st	Kiribati	169.0	3.3%
72nd	Micronesia, Federated States of	162.7	1.1%
73rd	Ghana	154.0	3.7%
74th	United Arab Emirates	153.4	3.9%
75th	China	150.6	0.2%
76th	Denmark	150.1	1.0%
77th	Indonesia	149.9	0.9%
78th	Cyprus	148.8	2.2%
79th	Isle of Man	147.9	0.1%
80th	Tonga	144.7	-0.4%
81st	Thailand	140.6	0.2%
82nd	Czechia	140.3	-0.3%
83rd	Syrian Arab Republic	136.0	5.9%
84th	Jordan	133.2	3.4%
85th	Benin	131.2	4.9%
86th	Cabo Verde	130.5	0.7%
87th	France	127.8	0.8%
88th	Azerbaijan	123.8	0.8%
89th	Sierra Leone	122.2	4.3%
90th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	118.4	2.9%
91st	Poland	117.2	-2.2%
92nd	Portugal	116.6	1.0%
93rd	Türkiye	112.9	1.9%
94th	Slovak Republic	112.5	-0.3%
95th	Austria	111.9	1.1%
96th	European Union	111.9	0.0%
97th	Malaysia	109.4	2.4%
98th	Iraq	108.2	4.3%
99th	Slovenia	106.1	0.7%
100th	Armenia	105.9	0.7%
101st	Cuba	105.2	-0.9%
102nd	Hungary	104.4	-0.6%
103rd	Côte d'Ivoire	102.6	4.7%
104th	Cambodia	101.4	2.8%
105th	Costa Rica	101.1	1.1%
106th	Kenya	98.6	3.5%
107th	Senegal	98.4	4.8%
108th	Honduras	98.2	3.3%
109th	Spain	97.6	0.8%
110th	Timor-Leste	96.2	3.3%
111th	Northern Mariana Islands	95.2	-3.0%
112th	Brunei Darussalam	88.7	1.8%
113th	Burkina Faso	87.9	4.5%
114th	Dominica	87.7	-1.1%
115th	Morocco	86.2	2.0%
116th	Albania	85.3	-3.2%
117th	Myanmar	84.1	1.4%
118th	Uzbekistan	83.9	3.7%
119th	Moldova	82.3	-3.6%
120th	Romania	81.9	-1.2%
121st	French Polynesia	81.3	0.3%
122nd	Guinea-Bissau	79.8	4.3%
123rd	Tunisia	79.6	1.3%
124th	Tanzania	79.4	5.5%
125th	Ireland	79.4	2.9%
126th	Samoa	79.3	1.7%
127th	Greece	79.2	-1.9%
128th	Yemen, Republic of	78.5	5.2%
129th	Serbia	78.5	-0.3%
130th	Tajikistan	78.0	4.2%
131st	Lesotho	77.8	2.2%
132nd	Ecuador	73.7	1.8%
133rd	Eswatini	73.1	2.1%
134th	North Macedonia	71.3	-1.7%
135th	Equatorial Guinea	69.0	4.8%
136th	Croatia	67.8	-1.6%
137th	Mexico	67.7	1.4%
138th	Afghanistan	66.3	4.4%
139th	Georgia	64.9	-0.2%
140th	Cameroon	63.0	5.0%
141st	Panama	61.6	2.5%
142nd	Guinea	61.4	4.7%
143rd	Ukraine	60.9	-6.4%
144th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	60.3	-3.0%
145th	Liberia	59.3	4.0%
146th	Bulgaria	58.5	-1.5%
147th	Nicaragua	58.1	2.4%
148th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	56.8	1.8%
149th	Madagascar	56.2	4.7%
150th	South Africa	53.6	2.9%
151st	Djibouti	51.1	2.8%
152nd	Fiji	50.8	0.3%
153rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	50.5	3.9%
154th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	49.4	6.0%
155th	Colombia	48.2	2.3%
156th	Montenegro	46.2	-0.4%
157th	Lithuania	46.1	0.4%
158th	Mozambique	45.1	5.5%
159th	Belarus	44.6	-1.4%
160th	Zimbabwe	43.6	3.3%
161st	Faroe Islands	41.2	3.6%
162nd	Bahamas, The	40.1	0.5%
163rd	Palau	38.5	-0.1%
164th	Kyrgyz Republic	38.4	3.6%
165th	United States	37.1	0.7%
166th	Lao PDR	34.1	2.8%
167th	Estonia	32.4	1.0%
168th	Angola	31.2	5.9%
169th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	31.2	6.5%
170th	Latvia	29.9	-1.3%
171st	Solomon Islands	29.8	4.4%
172nd	Eritrea	29.6	3.2%
173rd	Zambia	29.3	5.3%
174th	Sudan	28.2	5.1%
175th	Vanuatu	27.4	4.4%
176th	Peru	27.0	2.0%
177th	Chile	26.8	1.2%
178th	Sweden	26.2	1.3%
179th	Brazil	25.5	0.9%
180th	Papua New Guinea	23.8	3.8%
181st	Niger	21.9	6.0%
182nd	Bhutan	20.9	1.4%
183rd	Mali	20.6	5.6%
184th	New Zealand	20.0	1.3%
185th	Algeria	20.0	3.1%
186th	Uruguay	19.3	-0.1%
187th	Congo, Republic of	18.9	4.5%
188th	South Sudan	18.8	3.4%
189th	Belize	18.5	2.7%
190th	Finland	18.4	0.4%
191st	Paraguay	17.7	2.6%
192nd	Argentina	16.7	0.6%
193rd	Oman	16.6	1.6%
194th	Chad	16.3	6.1%
195th	Turkmenistan	16.3	3.9%
196th	Saudi Arabia	16.2	3.3%
197th	New Caledonia	16.0	0.8%
198th	Norway	15.4	1.4%
199th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	11.5	2.2%
200th	Gabon	10.1	4.4%
201st	Russian Federation	8.7	-0.6%
202nd	Central African Republic	8.4	2.1%
203rd	Kazakhstan	7.7	2.7%
204th	Mauritania	5.1	5.4%
205th	Canada	4.7	3.6%
206th	Botswana	4.5	2.9%
207th	Libya	4.3	2.5%
208th	Suriname	4.0	1.8%
209th	Iceland	4.0	3.7%
210th	Guyana	3.8	-3.0%
211th	Namibia	3.8	5.4%
212th	Australia	3.5	1.6%
213th	Mongolia	2.3	3.2%
214th	Greenland	0.1	0.5%

FAQ

What was United Kingdom's population density in 2025?▾

United Kingdom's population density in 2025 was 285.7. This ranked 44th globally.

How did United Kingdom's population density change in 2025?▾

United Kingdom's population density increased by 0.9% in 2025 compared to 2024.

Which country had the highest population density in 2025?▾

Macao SAR, China had the highest population density in 2025 at 20,598.7.

What is the population density of United Kingdom in 2025?▾

The population density of United Kingdom in 2025 was 285.7. This ranked 44th globally.

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