List of Brazilian states by population density

Population density is a ratio of the average number of inhabitants per square kilometre. It is worked out by simply dividing the population by the area of the Federative Units. In 2014, Brazil had an overall population density of 24.66 inhabitants per square kilometer.[1]

Rank	State	Area (km2)[2]	Population[3]	Density (pop./km2)	Comparable country (Density)
1	Distrito Federal	5,780.0	2,852,372	493.5	Tuvalu
2	Rio de Janeiro	43,780.2	16,461,173	376.0	Comoros
3	São Paulo	248,222.8	44,035,304	177.4	Saint Kitts and Nevis
4	Alagoas	27,778.5	3,321,730	119.5	Albania
5	Sergipe	21,915.1	2,219,574	101.3	Romania
6	Pernambuco	98,148.3	9,277,727	94.5	Costa Rica
7	Espírito Santo	46,095.6	3,885,049	84.3	Benin
8	Santa Catarina	95,736.2	6,727,148	70.3	Tunisia
9	Paraíba	56,469.8	3,943,885	69.8	Honduras
10	Rio Grande do Norte	52,811.0	3,408,510	64.5	Kenya
11	Ceará	148,920.5	8,842,791	59.4	Mexico
12	Paraná	199,307.9	11,081,692	55.6	Lithuania
13	Rio Grande do Sul	281,730.2	11,207,274	39.8	Guinea
14	Minas Gerais	586,522.1	20,734,097	35.4	Venezuela
15	Bahia	564,733.2	15,126,371	26.8	Mozambique
16	Maranhão	331,937.4	6,850,884	20.6	Equatorial Guinea
17	Goiás	340,111.8	6,523,222	19.2	Solomon Islands
18	Piauí	251,577.8	3,194,718	12.7	Norway
19	Rondônia	237,590.5	1,748,531	7.4	Central African Republic
20	Mato Grosso do Sul	357,145.5	2,619,657	7.3	Central African Republic
21	Pará	1,247,954.7	8,073,924	6.5	Kazakhstan
22	Tocantins	277,720.5	1,496,880	5.4	Gabon
23	Amapá	142,828.5	750,912	5.3	Guyana
24	Acre	164,123.0	790,101	4.8	Gabon
25	Mato Grosso	903,366.2	3,224,357	3.6	Canada
26	Amazonas	1,559,159.1	3,873,743	2.5	French Guiana
27	Roraima	224,300.5	496,936	2.2	Mongolia
—	Brazil	8,515,767.0	202,768,562	23.8	Peru

Brazilian states by Population Density, in people per square kilometer