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Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population, per square kilometre by country

Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
183
Highest
0.9318 1000 No per square kilometre
Maldives
Lowest
0 1000 No per square kilometre
Kuwait
Median
0.0283 1000 No per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
11,029

What the numbers show

Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population, per square kilometre is currently reported for 183 countries. The highest value is 0.9318 1000 No per square kilometre in Maldives; the lowest is 0 1000 No per square kilometre in Kuwait.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0283 1000 No per square kilometre, and the mean is 0.0676 1000 No per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 102 countries rose and 80 fell. The largest increase was in Niger (up 44.9%), and the largest decrease in San Marino (down 37.0%).

Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population, per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Maldives 0.9318 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 12.9% rising
2 Bangladesh 0.8012 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 1.6% rising
3 Rwanda 0.4646 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 24.7% rising
4 Barbados 0.4608 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 2.3% rising
5 Burundi 0.433 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 30.9% rising
6 Mauritius 0.3791 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 2.6% rising
7 Comoros 0.3478 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 21.6% rising
8 Aruba 0.3329 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% rising
9 India 0.305 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 4.3% rising
10 Sri Lanka 0.2776 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 3.7% rising
11 Saint Lucia 0.2427 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 3.4% rising
12 Bahrain 0.229 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 20.1% volatile
13 Palestine 0.2135 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 15.8% rising
14 Liechtenstein 0.2101 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 6.5% rising
15 Grenada 0.2047 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 2.5% rising
16 Philippines 0.1986 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 11.1% rising
17 Malawi 0.1911 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 29.3% rising
18 Uganda 0.1893 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 27.8% rising
19 Antigua and Barbuda 0.186 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 12.0% rising
20 Pakistan 0.1764 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 16.2% rising
21 Haiti 0.1719 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 8.3% rising
22 Nepal 0.17 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 6.0% rising
23 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.154 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 9.1% rising
24 Tuvalu 0.1333 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 12.4% falling
25 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.1305 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 6.6% falling
26 Trinidad and Tobago 0.1253 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 2.6% rising
27 Tonga 0.1215 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 8.4% rising
28 Jamaica 0.1153 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 4.1% rising
29 British Virgin Islands 0.1126 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 7.3% rising
30 Nigeria 0.1116 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 9.8% rising
31 Togo 0.0918 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 16.3% rising
32 Gambia 0.0876 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 13.1% rising
33 Seychelles 0.0868 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 5.3% rising
34 Guatemala 0.0828 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 12.2% rising
35 Ethiopia 0.0822 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 20.1% rising
36 El Salvador 0.0781 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 19.0% falling
37 Cambodia 0.0733 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 9.6% rising
38 Isle of Man 0.0713 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 3.5% rising
39 Kenya 0.0696 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 17.6% rising
40 Malta 0.0692 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 8.6% falling
41 Kiribati 0.0669 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% rising
42 Eswatini 0.066 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 16.0% rising
43 Sierra Leone 0.0659 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 14.6% rising
44 Thailand 0.0632 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 11.9% rising
45 Marshall Islands 0.0627 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 14.7% falling
46 Egypt 0.0618 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 20.0% rising
47 Indonesia 0.0613 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 5.0% rising
48 Samoa 0.0604 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 11.2% rising
49 Lebanon 0.0597 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 5.1% falling
50 Ghana 0.0585 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 7.0% rising
51 Myanmar 0.0584 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 5.1% rising
52 Benin 0.0581 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 18.2% rising
53 Switzerland 0.0578 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 6.6% rising
54 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0571 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 7.8% rising
55 Burkina Faso 0.056 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 21.9% rising
56 Italy 0.0558 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 10.9% falling
57 Lesotho 0.0552 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 7.1% rising
58 China 0.0547 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 21.7% falling
59 Azerbaijan 0.053 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 1.7% rising
60 Germany 0.0525 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 1.2% falling
61 Slovakia 0.0521 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 0.7% rising
62 Tajikistan 0.0518 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 20.7% rising
63 Poland 0.0489 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 1.0% flat
64 Senegal 0.0487 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 20.8% rising
65 Afghanistan 0.0455 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 23.8% rising
66 Slovenia 0.0454 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 5.3% falling
67 Cyprus 0.044 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 8.2% rising
68 Serbia 0.0439 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 3.3% falling
69 Austria 0.0434 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 2.2% rising
70 Guinea-Bissau 0.0416 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 18.5% rising
71 Uzbekistan 0.0386 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 14.4% rising
72 Albania 0.0381 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 19.9% falling
73 Armenia 0.0378 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 1.0% flat
74 Romania 0.0376 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 6.3% falling
75 Guinea 0.0374 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 21.7% rising
76 Dominican Republic 0.0369 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 25.5% falling
77 Yemen 0.0367 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 14.1% rising
78 Honduras 0.0361 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% rising
79 American Samoa 0.0358 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 2.4% falling
80 Portugal 0.0354 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 18.1% falling
81 Czechia 0.0351 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 4.4% rising
82 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0338 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 10.4% falling
83 North Macedonia 0.0336 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 4.7% rising
84 Zimbabwe 0.0328 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 25.2% rising
85 French Polynesia 0.032 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 5.9% rising
86 Madagascar 0.0306 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 17.2% rising
87 Israel 0.03 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 4.3% rising
88 Croatia 0.03 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 11.5% falling
89 Morocco 0.0299 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 2.0% rising
90 Iraq 0.0294 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 23.7% rising
91 Dominica 0.0284 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 5.2% falling
92 Hungary 0.0283 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 13.4% falling
93 Mozambique 0.0274 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 22.1% rising
94 Japan 0.0273 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 11.5% falling
95 Eritrea 0.0272 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 12.2% rising
96 Liberia 0.0265 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% rising
97 Puerto Rico 0.0261 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% volatile
98 Ireland 0.0258 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% rising
99 Ecuador 0.0256 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 9.9% rising
100 Cuba 0.0249 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 1.8% falling
101 Cameroon 0.0241 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 12.6% rising
102 Tunisia 0.0232 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 0.7% rising
103 France 0.0225 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 9.3% falling
104 Ukraine 0.0222 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 8.6% falling
105 Malaysia 0.0221 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 9.7% rising
106 Nicaragua 0.022 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 5.0% rising
107 Georgia 0.0218 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 13.5% falling
108 Fiji 0.0213 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 4.6% rising
109 Kyrgyzstan 0.0212 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 10.9% rising
110 Faroe Islands 0.021 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 2.7% flat
111 Andorra 0.0202 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 2.3% rising
112 Luxembourg 0.0193 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 12.6% falling
113 Vanuatu 0.0189 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 21.2% rising
114 Panama 0.0184 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 4.9% rising
115 South Sudan 0.0183 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 26.8% rising
116 Solomon Islands 0.0181 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 14.2% rising
117 Niger 0.0177 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 44.9% volatile
118 Papua New Guinea 0.0177 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 21.0% rising
119 Costa Rica 0.0176 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 23.7% flat
120 United Arab Emirates 0.0175 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 7.4% volatile
121 Spain 0.0171 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 12.1% falling
122 Denmark 0.0169 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 5.8% falling
123 Greece 0.0165 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 17.0% falling
124 Sudan 0.0159 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 21.5% rising
125 South Africa 0.0156 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 2.9% rising
126 Guam 0.0155 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 7.6% volatile
127 Montenegro 0.0147 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 9.4% falling
128 Zambia 0.0147 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 22.1% rising
129 Somalia 0.0146 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 20.6% rising
130 Bulgaria 0.0146 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 18.4% falling
131 Lithuania 0.0141 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 10.9% falling
132 Equatorial Guinea 0.0141 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 19.5% rising
133 Mexico 0.0131 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 2.4% rising
134 Bhutan 0.0126 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 0.3% rising
135 San Marino 0.0123 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 37.0% volatile
136 United States Virgin Islands 0.0112 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 24.2% falling
137 Chad 0.0107 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 31.5% volatile
138 Belize 0.0099 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 19.4% rising
139 Mali 0.0098 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 17.4% rising
140 Djibouti 0.0096 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 9.4% rising
141 Northern Mariana Islands 0.0096 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 7.2% falling
142 Jordan 0.0094 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 8.7% rising
143 Latvia 0.0093 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 11.8% falling
144 Estonia 0.0091 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 6.0% falling
145 Angola 0.0091 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 14.5% rising
146 Belarus 0.0089 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 20.1% falling
147 Palau 0.0089 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 15.8% falling
148 Colombia 0.0082 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 8.8% flat
149 Belgium 0.007 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 14.2% falling
150 Bahamas 0.0068 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 4.2% rising
151 Paraguay 0.0068 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 5.1% rising
152 Turkmenistan 0.0061 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 6.7% rising
153 Peru 0.0057 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 3.1% rising
154 Congo 0.0055 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 12.5% rising
155 Central African Republic 0.0047 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 9.0% rising
156 Algeria 0.0047 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 4.2% rising
157 New Caledonia 0.0044 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 1.7% rising
158 Brazil 0.0032 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 11.1% falling
159 Chile 0.003 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 1.6% falling
160 Kazakhstan 0.003 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 9.2% rising
161 Sweden 0.0029 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 14.1% falling
162 Guyana 0.0028 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 2.3% rising
163 Finland 0.0026 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 0.9% falling
164 Saudi Arabia 0.0025 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 5.7% rising
165 Norway 0.0025 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 10.2% falling
166 New Zealand 0.0024 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 3.6% rising
167 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.0023 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 21.7% falling
168 Mauritania 0.0021 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 9.1% rising
169 Oman 0.002 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 19.5% rising
170 Qatar 0.0017 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 29.8% rising
171 Namibia 0.0016 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 0.8% rising
172 Argentina 0.0013 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 5.4% falling
173 Suriname 0.0012 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 8.1% rising
174 Botswana 0.0012 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 6.1% rising
175 Uruguay 0.0009 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 15.1% falling
176 Canada 0.0008 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 7.5% rising
177 Gabon 0.0008 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 12.3% falling
178 Libya 0.0007 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 3.7% rising
179 Mongolia 0.0007 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 12.4% rising
180 Australia 0.0005 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 4.7% rising
181 Iceland 0.0002 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% falling
182 Greenland 0 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 15.5% falling
183 Kuwait 0 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 — volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

  • Chagai 0.5864 1000 No per square kilometre
  • World 0.0263 1000 No per square kilometre

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Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population, per square kilometre
Unit
1000 No per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
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Coverage
192 places, 11,029 data points, 1961–2023
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Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.