Least Densely Populated Countries (2026)

Mongolia is among the least densely populated countries with just 2 people per square kilometer. These countries often have vast wilderness, desert, or tundra that makes large portions of their territory uninhabitable.

#1

Mongolia

2/km²

#2

Western Sahara

2/km²

#3

French Guiana

3/km²

Least Densely Populated Countries - 183 countries ranked by Density

Rank	Country	Density	Population	Region
1	Mongolia	2/km²	3,544,835	Asia
2	Western Sahara	2/km²	600,904	Africa
3	French Guiana	3/km²	292,354	Americas
4	Canada	4/km²	41,651,653	Americas
5	Australia	4/km²	27,536,874	Oceania
6	Libya	4/km²	7,459,000	Africa
7	Namibia	4/km²	3,022,401	Africa
8	Botswana	4/km²	2,359,609	Africa
9	Guyana	4/km²	772,975	Americas
10	Suriname	4/km²	616,500	Americas
11	Iceland	4/km²	391,810	Europe
12	Mauritania	5/km²	4,927,532	Africa
13	Kazakhstan	7/km²	20,426,568	Asia
14	Russia	9/km²	146,028,325	Europe
15	Gabon	9/km²	2,469,296	Africa
16	Bolivia	10/km²	11,365,333	Americas
17	Central African Republic	10/km²	6,470,307	Africa
18	Turkmenistan	14/km²	7,057,841	Asia
19	New Caledonia	14/km²	264,596	Oceania
20	Chad	15/km²	19,340,757	Africa
21	Paraguay	15/km²	6,109,644	Americas
22	Norway	15/km²	5,606,944	Europe
23	Saudi Arabia	16/km²	35,300,280	Asia
24	Argentina	17/km²	46,735,004	Americas
25	Finland	17/km²	5,650,325	Europe
26	Oman	17/km²	5,343,630	Asia
27	Mali	18/km²	22,395,489	Africa
28	Republic of the Congo	18/km²	6,142,180	Africa
29	Belize	18/km²	417,634	Americas
30	Uruguay	19/km²	3,499,451	Americas
31	Åland Islands	19/km²	30,654	Europe
32	Algeria	20/km²	47,400,000	Africa
33	New Zealand	20/km²	5,324,700	Oceania
34	Bhutan	20/km²	784,043	Asia
35	Niger	21/km²	26,312,034	Africa
36	Sweden	24/km²	10,605,098	Europe
37	Brazil	25/km²	213,421,037	Americas
38	South Sudan	25/km²	15,786,898	Africa
39	Papua New Guinea	25/km²	11,781,559	Oceania
40	Zambia	26/km²	19,693,423	Africa
41	Solomon Islands	26/km²	750,325	Oceania
42	Vanuatu	26/km²	321,409	Oceania
43	Sudan	27/km²	51,662,000	Africa
44	Peru	27/km²	34,350,244	Americas
45	Chile	27/km²	20,206,953	Americas
46	Latvia	28/km²	1,829,000	Europe
47	Angola	29/km²	36,170,961	Africa
48	Bahamas	29/km²	398,165	Americas
49	Estonia	30/km²	1,369,995	Europe
50	Venezuela	31/km²	28,517,000	Americas
51	Somalia	31/km²	19,655,000	Africa
52	Eritrea	31/km²	3,607,000	Africa
53	Laos	32/km²	7,647,000	Asia
54	United States	36/km²	340,110,988	Americas
55	Kyrgyzstan	36/km²	7,281,800	Asia
56	Faroe Islands	39/km²	54,885	Europe
57	Mozambique	43/km²	34,090,466	Africa
58	Zimbabwe	44/km²	17,073,087	Africa
59	Belarus	44/km²	9,109,280	Europe
60	Lithuania	44/km²	2,894,886	Europe
61	Montenegro	45/km²	623,327	Europe
62	Colombia	46/km²	53,057,212	Americas
63	Djibouti	46/km²	1,066,809	Africa
64	Liberia	47/km²	5,248,621	Africa
65	DR Congo	48/km²	112,832,000	Africa
66	Guinea-Bissau	49/km²	1,781,308	Africa
67	Fiji	49/km²	900,869	Oceania
68	Iran	52/km²	85,961,000	Asia
69	South Africa	52/km²	63,100,945	Africa
70	Nicaragua	52/km²	6,803,886	Americas
71	Ukraine	54/km²	32,862,000	Europe
72	Madagascar	54/km²	31,727,042	Africa
73	Panama	54/km²	4,064,780	Americas
74	Georgia	57/km²	4,000,921	Asia
75	Guinea	58/km²	14,363,931	Africa
76	Bulgaria	58/km²	6,437,360	Europe
77	Equatorial Guinea	59/km²	1,668,768	Africa
78	Yemen	62/km²	32,684,503	Asia
79	Cameroon	62/km²	29,442,327	Africa
80	Ecuador	65/km²	18,103,660	Americas
81	Mexico	66/km²	130,575,786	Americas
82	Afghanistan	67/km²	43,844,000	Asia
83	Bosnia and Herzegovina	67/km²	3,422,000	Europe
84	French Polynesia	67/km²	279,500	Oceania
85	Croatia	68/km²	3,866,233	Europe
86	Lesotho	70/km²	2,116,427	Africa
87	North Macedonia	71/km²	1,822,612	Europe
88	Eswatini	71/km²	1,235,549	Africa
89	Tanzania	72/km²	68,153,004	Africa
90	Samoa	72/km²	205,557	Oceania
91	Tunisia	73/km²	11,972,169	Africa
92	Tajikistan	73/km²	10,499,000	Asia
93	Myanmar	76/km²	51,316,756	Asia
94	Ireland	78/km²	5,458,600	Europe
95	Greece	79/km²	10,400,720	Europe
96	Brunei	79/km²	455,500	Asia
97	Romania	80/km²	19,036,031	Europe
98	Moldova	81/km²	2,749,076	Europe
99	Morocco	82/km²	36,828,330	Africa
100	Albania	82/km²	2,363,314	Europe
101	Uzbekistan	85/km²	37,859,698	Asia
102	Serbia	85/km²	6,567,783	Europe
103	Burkina Faso	88/km²	24,070,553	Africa
104	Honduras	88/km²	9,892,632	Americas
105	Cuba	89/km²	9,748,007	Americas
106	Kenya	92/km²	53,330,978	Africa
107	Timor-Leste	94/km²	1,391,221	Asia
108	Senegal	95/km²	18,593,258	Africa
109	Spain	97/km²	49,315,949	Europe
110	Cambodia	97/km²	17,577,760	Asia
111	Ivory Coast	98/km²	31,719,275	Africa
112	Ethiopia	101/km²	111,652,998	Africa
113	Malaysia	103/km²	34,231,700	Asia
114	Hungary	103/km²	9,539,502	Europe
115	Armenia	103/km²	3,076,200	Asia
116	Costa Rica	104/km²	5,309,625	Americas
117	Iraq	105/km²	46,118,793	Asia
118	Slovenia	105/km²	2,130,638	Europe
119	Egypt	107/km²	107,271,260	Africa
120	Turkey	109/km²	85,664,944	Asia
121	Austria	110/km²	9,200,931	Europe
122	Slovakia	110/km²	5,413,813	Europe
123	Benin	117/km²	13,224,860	Africa
124	Portugal	117/km²	10,749,635	Europe
125	Azerbaijan	118/km²	10,241,722	Asia
126	Poland	120/km²	37,392,000	Europe
127	France	122/km²	66,351,959	Europe
128	Cape Verde	122/km²	491,233	Africa
129	Sierra Leone	127/km²	9,077,691	Africa
130	Thailand	128/km²	65,859,640	Asia
131	Jordan	131/km²	11,734,000	Asia
132	United Arab Emirates	135/km²	11,294,243	Asia
133	Syria	138/km²	25,620,000	Asia
134	Czechia	138/km²	10,882,341	Europe
135	Denmark	139/km²	6,011,488	Europe
136	Ghana	141/km²	33,742,380	Africa
137	Togo	143/km²	8,095,498	Africa
138	China	145/km²	1,408,280,000	Asia
139	Kosovo	145/km²	1,585,566	Europe
140	Indonesia	149/km²	284,438,782	Asia
141	Cyprus	156/km²	1,442,614	Europe
142	Guatemala	166/km²	18,079,810	Americas
143	Malawi	175/km²	20,734,262	Africa
144	Uganda	190/km²	45,905,417	Africa
145	Italy	196/km²	58,927,633	Europe
146	Nepal	203/km²	29,911,840	Asia
147	North Korea	215/km²	25,950,000	Asia
148	Switzerland	220/km²	9,082,848	Europe
149	Dominican Republic	221/km²	10,771,504	Americas
150	Gambia	227/km²	2,422,712	Africa
151	Guadeloupe	233/km²	378,561	Americas
152	Germany	234/km²	83,491,249	Europe
153	Nigeria	242/km²	223,800,000	Africa
154	Jamaica	257/km²	2,825,544	Americas
155	Luxembourg	264/km²	681,973	Europe
156	Trinidad and Tobago	267/km²	1,367,764	Americas
157	Kuwait	274/km²	4,881,254	Asia
158	Qatar	274/km²	3,173,024	Asia
159	United Kingdom	284/km²	69,281,437	Europe
160	El Salvador	287/km²	6,029,976	Americas
161	Pakistan	303/km²	241,499,431	Asia
162	Vietnam	306/km²	101,343,800	Asia
163	Martinique	310/km²	349,925	Americas
164	Japan	326/km²	123,210,000	Asia
165	Sri Lanka	332/km²	21,763,170	Asia
166	Philippines	333/km²	114,123,600	Asia
167	Réunion	357/km²	896,175	Africa
168	Puerto Rico	361/km²	3,203,295	Americas
169	Belgium	387/km²	11,825,551	Europe
170	Haiti	428/km²	11,867,032	Americas
171	India	431/km²	1,417,492,000	Asia
172	Netherlands	432/km²	18,100,436	Europe
173	Burundi	443/km²	12,332,788	Africa
174	Israel	462/km²	10,134,800	Asia
175	Comoros	494/km²	919,901	Africa
176	South Korea	511/km²	51,159,889	Asia
177	Lebanon	525/km²	5,490,000	Asia
178	Rwanda	536/km²	14,104,969	Africa
179	Mauritius	610/km²	1,243,741	Africa
180	Taiwan	644/km²	23,317,031	Asia
181	Palestine	882/km²	5,483,450	Asia
182	Bangladesh	1,151/km²	169,828,911	Asia
183	Hong Kong	6,818/km²	7,527,500	Asia