Most Densely Populated Countries (2026)

Macau is the most densely populated country in the world with 22,863 people per square kilometer. By comparison, the global average population density is approximately 60 people per km².

#1

Macau

22,863/km²

#2

Monaco

19,021/km²

#3

Singapore

8,606/km²

Most Densely Populated Countries - 240 countries ranked by Density

Rank	Country	Density	Population	Region
1	Macau	22,863/km²	685,900	Asia
2	Monaco	19,021/km²	38,423	Europe
3	Singapore	8,606/km²	6,110,200	Asia
4	Hong Kong	6,818/km²	7,527,500	Asia
5	Gibraltar	6,333/km²	38,000	Europe
6	Bahrain	2,085/km²	1,594,654	Asia
7	Malta	1,817/km²	574,250	Europe
8	Vatican City	1,800/km²	882	Europe
9	Maldives	1,717/km²	515,132	Asia
10	Sint Maarten	1,216/km²	41,349	Americas
11	Bermuda	1,186/km²	64,055	Americas
12	Bangladesh	1,151/km²	169,828,911	Asia
13	Jersey	890/km²	103,267	Europe
14	Palestine	882/km²	5,483,450	Asia
15	Mayotte	858/km²	320,901	Africa
16	Guernsey	831/km²	64,781	Europe
17	Taiwan	644/km²	23,317,031	Asia
18	Barbados	623/km²	267,800	Americas
19	Mauritius	610/km²	1,243,741	Africa
20	Aruba	598/km²	107,566	Americas
21	Saint Martin	594/km²	31,496	Americas
22	San Marino	560/km²	34,132	Europe
23	Nauru	556/km²	11,680	Oceania
24	Rwanda	536/km²	14,104,969	Africa
25	Lebanon	525/km²	5,490,000	Asia
26	South Korea	511/km²	51,159,889	Asia
27	Saint Barthélemy	503/km²	10,562	Americas
28	Comoros	494/km²	919,901	Africa
29	Israel	462/km²	10,134,800	Asia
30	Burundi	443/km²	12,332,788	Africa
31	Netherlands	432/km²	18,100,436	Europe
32	India	431/km²	1,417,492,000	Asia
33	Haiti	428/km²	11,867,032	Americas
34	Tuvalu	409/km²	10,643	Oceania
35	Belgium	387/km²	11,825,551	Europe
36	Puerto Rico	361/km²	3,203,295	Americas
37	Réunion	357/km²	896,175	Africa
38	Curaçao	352/km²	156,115	Americas
39	Philippines	333/km²	114,123,600	Asia
40	Sri Lanka	332/km²	21,763,170	Asia
41	Japan	326/km²	123,210,000	Asia
42	Cayman Islands	321/km²	84,738	Americas
43	Grenada	317/km²	109,021	Americas
44	Martinique	310/km²	349,925	Americas
45	Vietnam	306/km²	101,343,800	Asia
46	Pakistan	303/km²	241,499,431	Asia
47	Saint Lucia	299/km²	184,100	Americas
48	El Salvador	287/km²	6,029,976	Americas
49	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	285/km²	110,872	Americas
50	United Kingdom	284/km²	69,281,437	Europe
51	Guam	280/km²	153,836	Oceania
52	Kuwait	274/km²	4,881,254	Asia
53	Qatar	274/km²	3,173,024	Asia
54	Seychelles	272/km²	122,729	Africa
55	Trinidad and Tobago	267/km²	1,367,764	Americas
56	Luxembourg	264/km²	681,973	Europe
57	British Virgin Islands	261/km²	39,471	Americas
58	Jamaica	257/km²	2,825,544	Americas
59	Liechtenstein	256/km²	40,900	Europe
60	United States Virgin Islands	251/km²	87,146	Americas
61	American Samoa	250/km²	49,710	Oceania
62	Nigeria	242/km²	223,800,000	Africa
63	Germany	234/km²	83,491,249	Europe
64	Antigua and Barbuda	234/km²	103,603	Americas
65	Marshall Islands	234/km²	42,418	Oceania
66	Guadeloupe	233/km²	378,561	Americas
67	Gambia	227/km²	2,422,712	Africa
68	Dominican Republic	221/km²	10,771,504	Americas
69	Switzerland	220/km²	9,082,848	Europe
70	São Tomé and Príncipe	217/km²	209,607	Africa
71	Tokelau	217/km²	2,608	Oceania
72	North Korea	215/km²	25,950,000	Asia
73	Nepal	203/km²	29,911,840	Asia
74	Saint Kitts and Nevis	197/km²	51,320	Americas
75	Italy	196/km²	58,927,633	Europe
76	Uganda	190/km²	45,905,417	Africa
77	Andorra	189/km²	88,406	Europe
78	Anguilla	176/km²	16,010	Americas
79	Malawi	175/km²	20,734,262	Africa
80	Guatemala	166/km²	18,079,810	Americas
81	Cyprus	156/km²	1,442,614	Europe
82	Micronesia	150/km²	105,564	Oceania
83	Indonesia	149/km²	284,438,782	Asia
84	Kiribati	149/km²	120,740	Oceania
85	Isle of Man	148/km²	84,530	Europe
86	China	145/km²	1,408,280,000	Asia
87	Kosovo	145/km²	1,585,566	Europe
88	Togo	143/km²	8,095,498	Africa
89	Ghana	141/km²	33,742,380	Africa
90	Denmark	139/km²	6,011,488	Europe
91	Syria	138/km²	25,620,000	Asia
92	Czechia	138/km²	10,882,341	Europe
93	United Arab Emirates	135/km²	11,294,243	Asia
94	Tonga	134/km²	100,179	Oceania
95	Jordan	131/km²	11,734,000	Asia
96	Thailand	128/km²	65,859,640	Asia
97	Sierra Leone	127/km²	9,077,691	Africa
98	France	122/km²	66,351,959	Europe
99	Cape Verde	122/km²	491,233	Africa
100	Poland	120/km²	37,392,000	Europe
101	Azerbaijan	118/km²	10,241,722	Asia
102	Benin	117/km²	13,224,860	Africa
103	Portugal	117/km²	10,749,635	Europe
104	Austria	110/km²	9,200,931	Europe
105	Slovakia	110/km²	5,413,813	Europe
106	Turkey	109/km²	85,664,944	Asia
107	Egypt	107/km²	107,271,260	Africa
108	Iraq	105/km²	46,118,793	Asia
109	Slovenia	105/km²	2,130,638	Europe
110	Costa Rica	104/km²	5,309,625	Americas
111	Malaysia	103/km²	34,231,700	Asia
112	Hungary	103/km²	9,539,502	Europe
113	Armenia	103/km²	3,076,200	Asia
114	Northern Mariana Islands	102/km²	47,329	Oceania
115	Ethiopia	101/km²	111,652,998	Africa
116	Ivory Coast	98/km²	31,719,275	Africa
117	Caribbean Netherlands	98/km²	31,980	Americas
118	Spain	97/km²	49,315,949	Europe
119	Cambodia	97/km²	17,577,760	Asia
120	Senegal	95/km²	18,593,258	Africa
121	Timor-Leste	94/km²	1,391,221	Asia
122	Kenya	92/km²	53,330,978	Africa
123	Dominica	90/km²	67,408	Americas
124	Cuba	89/km²	9,748,007	Americas
125	Burkina Faso	88/km²	24,070,553	Africa
126	Honduras	88/km²	9,892,632	Americas
127	Uzbekistan	85/km²	37,859,698	Asia
128	Serbia	85/km²	6,567,783	Europe
129	Morocco	82/km²	36,828,330	Africa
130	Albania	82/km²	2,363,314	Europe
131	Wallis and Futuna	82/km²	11,620	Oceania
132	Moldova	81/km²	2,749,076	Europe
133	Romania	80/km²	19,036,031	Europe
134	Greece	79/km²	10,400,720	Europe
135	Brunei	79/km²	455,500	Asia
136	Ireland	78/km²	5,458,600	Europe
137	Myanmar	76/km²	51,316,756	Asia
138	Tunisia	73/km²	11,972,169	Africa
139	Tajikistan	73/km²	10,499,000	Asia
140	Tanzania	72/km²	68,153,004	Africa
141	Samoa	72/km²	205,557	Oceania
142	North Macedonia	71/km²	1,822,612	Europe
143	Eswatini	71/km²	1,235,549	Africa
144	Lesotho	70/km²	2,116,427	Africa
145	Croatia	68/km²	3,866,233	Europe
146	Afghanistan	67/km²	43,844,000	Asia
147	Bosnia and Herzegovina	67/km²	3,422,000	Europe
148	French Polynesia	67/km²	279,500	Oceania
149	Mexico	66/km²	130,575,786	Americas
150	Ecuador	65/km²	18,103,660	Americas
151	Cook Islands	64/km²	15,040	Oceania
152	Yemen	62/km²	32,684,503	Asia
153	Cameroon	62/km²	29,442,327	Africa
154	Norfolk Island	61/km²	2,188	Oceania
155	Equatorial Guinea	59/km²	1,668,768	Africa
156	Guinea	58/km²	14,363,931	Africa
157	Bulgaria	58/km²	6,437,360	Europe
158	Georgia	57/km²	4,000,921	Asia
159	Ukraine	54/km²	32,862,000	Europe
160	Madagascar	54/km²	31,727,042	Africa
161	Panama	54/km²	4,064,780	Americas
162	Turks and Caicos Islands	54/km²	50,828	Americas
163	Iran	52/km²	85,961,000	Asia
164	South Africa	52/km²	63,100,945	Africa
165	Nicaragua	52/km²	6,803,886	Americas
166	Guinea-Bissau	49/km²	1,781,308	Africa
167	Fiji	49/km²	900,869	Oceania
168	DR Congo	48/km²	112,832,000	Africa
169	Liberia	47/km²	5,248,621	Africa
170	Colombia	46/km²	53,057,212	Americas
171	Djibouti	46/km²	1,066,809	Africa
172	Montenegro	45/km²	623,327	Europe
173	Zimbabwe	44/km²	17,073,087	Africa
174	Belarus	44/km²	9,109,280	Europe
175	Lithuania	44/km²	2,894,886	Europe
176	Mozambique	43/km²	34,090,466	Africa
177	Montserrat	43/km²	4,386	Americas
178	Cocos (Keeling) Islands	42/km²	593	Oceania
179	Faroe Islands	39/km²	54,885	Europe
180	United States	36/km²	340,110,988	Americas
181	Kyrgyzstan	36/km²	7,281,800	Asia
182	Palau	36/km²	16,733	Oceania
183	Laos	32/km²	7,647,000	Asia
184	Venezuela	31/km²	28,517,000	Americas
185	Somalia	31/km²	19,655,000	Africa
186	Eritrea	31/km²	3,607,000	Africa
187	Estonia	30/km²	1,369,995	Europe
188	Angola	29/km²	36,170,961	Africa
189	Bahamas	29/km²	398,165	Americas
190	Latvia	28/km²	1,829,000	Europe
191	Sudan	27/km²	51,662,000	Africa
192	Peru	27/km²	34,350,244	Americas
193	Chile	27/km²	20,206,953	Americas
194	Zambia	26/km²	19,693,423	Africa
195	Solomon Islands	26/km²	750,325	Oceania
196	Vanuatu	26/km²	321,409	Oceania
197	Brazil	25/km²	213,421,037	Americas
198	South Sudan	25/km²	15,786,898	Africa
199	Papua New Guinea	25/km²	11,781,559	Oceania
200	Sweden	24/km²	10,605,098	Europe
201	Saint Pierre and Miquelon	24/km²	5,819	Americas
202	Niger	21/km²	26,312,034	Africa
203	Algeria	20/km²	47,400,000	Africa
204	New Zealand	20/km²	5,324,700	Oceania
205	Bhutan	20/km²	784,043	Asia
206	Uruguay	19/km²	3,499,451	Americas
207	Åland Islands	19/km²	30,654	Europe
208	Mali	18/km²	22,395,489	Africa
209	Republic of the Congo	18/km²	6,142,180	Africa
210	Belize	18/km²	417,634	Americas
211	Argentina	17/km²	46,735,004	Americas
212	Finland	17/km²	5,650,325	Europe
213	Oman	17/km²	5,343,630	Asia
214	Saudi Arabia	16/km²	35,300,280	Asia
215	Chad	15/km²	19,340,757	Africa
216	Paraguay	15/km²	6,109,644	Americas
217	Norway	15/km²	5,606,944	Europe
218	Turkmenistan	14/km²	7,057,841	Asia
219	New Caledonia	14/km²	264,596	Oceania
220	Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	14/km²	5,651	Africa
221	Christmas Island	13/km²	1,692	Oceania
222	Bolivia	10/km²	11,365,333	Americas
223	Central African Republic	10/km²	6,470,307	Africa
224	Russia	9/km²	146,028,325	Europe
225	Gabon	9/km²	2,469,296	Africa
226	Kazakhstan	7/km²	20,426,568	Asia
227	Niue	6/km²	1,681	Oceania
228	Mauritania	5/km²	4,927,532	Africa
229	Canada	4/km²	41,651,653	Americas
230	Australia	4/km²	27,536,874	Oceania
231	Libya	4/km²	7,459,000	Africa
232	Namibia	4/km²	3,022,401	Africa
233	Botswana	4/km²	2,359,609	Africa
234	Guyana	4/km²	772,975	Americas
235	Suriname	4/km²	616,500	Americas
236	Iceland	4/km²	391,810	Europe
237	French Guiana	3/km²	292,354	Americas
238	Mongolia	2/km²	3,544,835	Asia
239	Western Sahara	2/km²	600,904	Africa
240	Pitcairn Islands	1/km²	35	Oceania