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Population - Est. & Proj. β€” Rural population, per square kilometre by country

Population - Est. & Proj. β€” 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
184
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. β€” Rural population, per square kilometre is currently reported for 184 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 0.0704 1000 No per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 103 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. β€” 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 Chagai 0.5864 1000 No per square kilometre 2021 up 5.0% rising
4 Rwanda 0.4646 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 24.7% rising
5 Barbados 0.4608 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 2.3% rising
6 Burundi 0.433 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 30.9% rising
7 Mauritius 0.3791 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 2.6% rising
8 Comoros 0.3478 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 21.6% rising
9 Aruba 0.3329 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 1.9% rising
10 India 0.305 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 4.3% rising
11 Sri Lanka 0.2776 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 3.7% rising
12 Saint Lucia 0.2427 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 3.4% rising
13 Bahrain 0.229 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 20.1% volatile
14 Palestine, State of 0.2135 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 15.8% rising
15 Liechtenstein 0.2101 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 6.5% rising
16 Grenada 0.2047 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 2.5% rising
17 Philippines 0.1986 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 11.1% rising
18 Malawi 0.1911 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 29.3% rising
19 Uganda 0.1893 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 27.8% rising
20 Antigua and Barbuda 0.186 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 12.0% rising
21 Pakistan 0.1764 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 16.2% rising
22 Haiti 0.1719 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 8.3% rising
23 Nepal 0.17 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 6.0% rising
24 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.154 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 9.1% rising
25 Tuvalu 0.1333 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 12.4% falling
26 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.1305 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 6.6% falling
27 Trinidad and Tobago 0.1253 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 2.6% rising
28 Tonga 0.1215 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 8.4% rising
29 Jamaica 0.1153 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 4.1% rising
30 British Virgin Islands 0.1126 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 7.3% rising
31 Nigeria 0.1116 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 9.8% rising
32 Togo 0.0918 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 16.3% rising
33 Gambia 0.0876 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 13.1% rising
34 Seychelles 0.0868 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 5.3% rising
35 Guatemala 0.0828 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 12.2% rising
36 Ethiopia 0.0822 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 20.1% rising
37 El Salvador 0.0781 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 19.0% falling
38 Cambodia 0.0733 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 9.6% rising
39 Isle of Man 0.0713 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 3.5% rising
40 Kenya 0.0696 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 17.6% rising
41 Malta 0.0692 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 8.6% falling
42 Kiribati 0.0669 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% rising
43 Eswatini 0.066 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 16.0% rising
44 Sierra Leone 0.0659 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 14.6% rising
45 Thailand 0.0632 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 11.9% rising
46 Marshall Islands 0.0627 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 14.7% falling
47 Egypt 0.0618 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 20.0% rising
48 Indonesia 0.0613 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 5.0% rising
49 Samoa 0.0604 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 11.2% rising
50 Lebanon 0.0597 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 5.1% falling
51 Ghana 0.0585 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 7.0% rising
52 Myanmar 0.0584 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 5.1% rising
53 Benin 0.0581 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 18.2% rising
54 Switzerland 0.0578 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 6.6% rising
55 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0571 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 7.8% rising
56 Burkina Faso 0.056 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 21.9% rising
57 Italy 0.0558 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 10.9% falling
58 Lesotho 0.0552 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 7.1% rising
59 China 0.0547 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 21.7% falling
60 Azerbaijan 0.053 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 1.7% rising
61 Germany 0.0525 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 1.2% falling
62 Slovak Republic 0.0521 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 0.7% rising
63 Tajikistan 0.0518 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 20.7% rising
64 Poland 0.0489 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 1.0% flat
65 Senegal 0.0487 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 20.8% rising
66 Afghanistan 0.0455 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 23.8% rising
67 Slovenia 0.0454 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 5.3% falling
68 Cyprus 0.044 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 8.2% rising
69 Serbia 0.0439 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 3.3% falling
70 Austria 0.0434 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 2.2% rising
71 Guinea-Bissau 0.0416 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 18.5% rising
72 Uzbekistan 0.0386 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 14.4% rising
73 Albania 0.0381 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 19.9% falling
74 Armenia 0.0378 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 1.0% flat
75 Romania 0.0376 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 6.3% falling
76 Guinea 0.0374 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 21.7% rising
77 Dominican Republic 0.0369 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 25.5% falling
78 Yemen 0.0367 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 14.1% rising
79 Honduras 0.0361 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 1.2% rising
80 American Samoa 0.0358 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 2.4% falling
81 Portugal 0.0354 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 18.1% falling
82 Czechia 0.0351 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 4.4% rising
83 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0338 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 10.4% falling
84 North Macedonia 0.0336 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 4.7% rising
85 Zimbabwe 0.0328 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 25.2% rising
86 French Polynesia 0.032 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 5.9% rising
87 Madagascar 0.0306 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 17.2% rising
88 Israel 0.03 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 4.3% rising
89 Croatia 0.03 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 11.5% falling
90 Morocco 0.0299 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 2.0% rising
91 Iraq 0.0294 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 23.7% rising
92 Dominica 0.0284 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 5.2% falling
93 Hungary 0.0283 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 13.4% falling
94 Mozambique 0.0274 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 22.1% rising
95 Japan 0.0273 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 11.5% falling
96 Eritrea 0.0272 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 12.2% rising
97 Liberia 0.0265 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 16.7% rising
98 Puerto Rico 0.0261 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 0.6% volatile
99 Ireland 0.0258 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 0.2% rising
100 Ecuador 0.0256 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 9.9% rising
101 Cuba 0.0249 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 1.8% falling
102 Cameroon 0.0241 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 12.6% rising
103 Tunisia 0.0232 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 0.7% rising
104 France 0.0225 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 9.3% falling
105 Ukraine 0.0222 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 8.6% falling
106 Malaysia 0.0221 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 9.7% rising
107 Nicaragua 0.022 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 5.0% rising
108 Georgia 0.0218 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 13.5% falling
109 Fiji 0.0213 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 4.6% rising
110 Kyrgyzstan 0.0212 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 10.9% rising
111 Faroe Islands 0.021 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 2.7% flat
112 Andorra 0.0202 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 2.3% rising
113 Luxembourg 0.0193 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 12.6% falling
114 Vanuatu 0.0189 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 21.2% rising
115 Panama 0.0184 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 4.9% rising
116 South Sudan 0.0183 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 26.8% rising
117 Solomon Islands 0.0181 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 14.2% rising
118 Niger 0.0177 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 44.9% volatile
119 Papua New Guinea 0.0177 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 21.0% rising
120 Costa Rica 0.0176 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 23.7% flat
121 United Arab Emirates 0.0175 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 7.4% volatile
122 Spain 0.0171 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 12.1% falling
123 Denmark 0.0169 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 5.8% falling
124 Greece 0.0165 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 17.0% falling
125 Sudan 0.0159 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 21.5% rising
126 South Africa 0.0156 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 2.9% rising
127 Guam 0.0155 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 7.6% volatile
128 Montenegro 0.0147 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 9.4% falling
129 Zambia 0.0147 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 22.1% rising
130 Somalia 0.0146 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 20.6% rising
131 Bulgaria 0.0146 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 18.4% falling
132 Lithuania 0.0141 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 10.9% falling
133 Equatorial Guinea 0.0141 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 19.5% rising
134 Mexico 0.0131 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 2.4% rising
135 Bhutan 0.0126 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 0.3% rising
136 San Marino 0.0123 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 37.0% volatile
137 United States Virgin Islands 0.0112 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 24.2% falling
138 Chad 0.0107 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 31.5% volatile
139 Belize 0.0099 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 19.4% rising
140 Mali 0.0098 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 17.4% rising
141 Djibouti 0.0096 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 9.4% rising
142 Northern Mariana Islands 0.0096 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 7.2% falling
143 Jordan 0.0094 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 8.7% rising
144 Latvia 0.0093 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 11.8% falling
145 Estonia 0.0091 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 6.0% falling
146 Angola 0.0091 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 14.5% rising
147 Belarus 0.0089 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 20.1% falling
148 Palau 0.0089 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 15.8% falling
149 Colombia 0.0082 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 8.8% flat
150 Belgium 0.007 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 14.2% falling
151 Bahamas 0.0068 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 4.2% rising
152 Paraguay 0.0068 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 5.1% rising
153 Turkmenistan 0.0061 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 6.7% rising
154 Peru 0.0057 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 3.1% rising
155 Congo 0.0055 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 12.5% rising
156 Central African Republic 0.0047 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 9.0% rising
157 Algeria 0.0047 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 4.2% rising
158 New Caledonia 0.0044 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 1.7% rising
159 Brazil 0.0032 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 11.1% falling
160 Chile 0.003 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 1.6% falling
161 Kazakhstan 0.003 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 9.2% rising
162 Sweden 0.0029 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 14.1% falling
163 Guyana 0.0028 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 2.3% rising
164 Finland 0.0026 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 0.9% falling
165 Saudi Arabia 0.0025 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 5.7% rising
166 Norway 0.0025 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 10.2% falling
167 New Zealand 0.0024 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 3.6% rising
168 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.0023 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 21.7% falling
169 Mauritania 0.0021 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 9.1% rising
170 Oman 0.002 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 19.5% rising
171 Qatar 0.0017 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 29.8% rising
172 Namibia 0.0016 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 0.8% rising
173 Argentina 0.0013 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 5.4% falling
174 Suriname 0.0012 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 8.1% rising
175 Botswana 0.0012 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 6.1% rising
176 Uruguay 0.0009 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 15.1% falling
177 Canada 0.0008 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 7.5% rising
178 Gabon 0.0008 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 12.3% falling
179 Libya 0.0007 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 3.7% rising
180 Mongolia 0.0007 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 12.4% rising
181 Australia 0.0005 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 up 4.7% rising
182 Iceland 0.0002 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 0.2% falling
183 Greenland 0 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 down 15.5% falling
184 Kuwait 0 1000 No per square kilometre 2023 β€” volatile

Regions and income groups

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

  • World 0.0263 1000 No per square kilometre

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Population - Est. & Proj. β€” 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. β€” Rural population Γ· Land area (sq. km)

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Population - Est. & Proj. β€” Rural population, per square kilometre
Unit
1000 No per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
192 places, 11,029 data points, 1961–2023
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Population - Est. & Proj. β€” 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.