Inhabitants per km² · 2023 · Our World in Data
Population density, in inhabitants per km² — a fixed map, 2023 data.
Our World in Data, blending HYDE (2023), Gapminder (2022), the United Nations (World Population Prospects 2024) and the FAO (2024).
A logarithmic scale: without it, almost the entire world would fall into the same pale shade next to a few extreme territories.
Macau (21,634 people/km²) and Monaco (18,704) top a ranking occupied almost exclusively by city-states or tiny territories — density here measures an absolute geographic constraint more than an urban planning choice: a territory of a few km² can only be extremely dense or extremely empty.