List of countries by real population density based on food growing capacity

This is a list of countries ordered by physiological density. "Arable land" is defined by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, the source of "Arable land (hectares per person)" as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.[1]

Ranking

Rank	Country	Population (July 2017 est.)[2]	Land Area (km²)[3]	Population Density (pop per km² 2017)	% of land arable (2016 est.)[4]	Arable Land (hectares 2016)[5]	Real Population Density 2016 (Arable land [hectares per person])[1]
001	Singapore	5,612,253	682.7	7,916	0.79%	560	0.000
-	Hong Kong S.A.R. (PRC)	7,391,700	1,042	7,040	2.86%	3,000	0.000
002	Bahrain	1,492,584	665	1,936	2.06%	1,600	0.001
003	Seychelles	95,843	455	208	0.33%	150	0.002
004	Kuwait	4,136,528	17,820	232	0.45%	8,000	0.002
005	Djibouti	956,985	22,980	41	0.09%	2,000	0.002
-	Cayman Islands (UK)	61,559	262	256	0.83%	200	0.003
-	Bermuda (UK)	65,441	53.3	1,309	5.56%	300	0.005
006	United Arab Emirates	9,400,145	82,880	112	0.63%	44,500	0.005
007	Qatar	2,639,211	11,437	227	1.23%	14,300	0.005
-	Guam (US)	164,229	541.3	304	1.85%	1,000	0.006
008	Maldives	436,330	300	1,454	13.00%	3,900	0.008
-	French Polynesia (France)	283,007	3,660	77	0.68%	2,500	0.009
-	U.S. Virgin Islands (US)	107,268	346	306	2.86%	1,000	0.009
009	Andorra	76,965	468	164	1.66%	780	0.010
010	Brunei	428,697	5,270	81	0.95%	5,000	0.012
011	Oman	4,636,262	212,460	15	0.18%	56,110	0.013
012	Montenegro	622,471	13,810	46	0.67%	9,000	0.014
-	Greenland (Denmark)	56,375	2,166,086	0.03	0.002%[6]	900[6]	0.016[6]
013	Saint Lucia	178,844	606	293	4.92%	3,000	0.017
014	Kiribati	116,398	811	144	2.47%	2,000	0.018
-	Northern Mariana Islands (US)	55,144	477	120	2.17%	1,000	0.018
-	Puerto Rico (US)	3,337,177	8,870	376	6.88%	61,000	0.018
015	Federated States of Micronesia	105,544	702	151	2.86%	2,000	0.018
016	Trinidad and Tobago	1,369,125	5,128	267	4.87%	25,000	0.018
-	Aruba (Netherlands)	105,264	193	585	11.11%	2,000	0.019
017	Lebanon	6,082,357	10,452	595	12.90%	132,000	0.020
018	Malta	465,292	316	1,454	28.34%	9,070	0.020
019	The Bahamas	395,361	10,070	39	0.80%	8,000	0.021
-	New Caledonia (France)	280,460	18,575	15	0.34%	6,240	0.023
020[7]	Taiwan	22,701,079	32,260	704	16.9%[8]	589,000[9]	0.026
021	Barbados	285,719	431	664	16.28%	7,000	0.024
022	Jordan	9,702,353	91,971	109	2.67%	237,260	0.025
023	Grenada	107,825	344	317	8.82%	3,000	0.027
-	Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)	35,446	430	37	1.05%	1,000	0.027
024	South Korea	51,466,201	98,190	528	14.58%	1,421,000	0.028
025	Malaysia	31,624,264	328,550	96	2.68%	882,000	0.029
026	Egypt	97,553,151	995,450	98	2.80%	2,786,770	0.030
027	San Marino	33,400	61.2	557	16.67%	1,000	0.030
028	Solomon Islands	611,343	27,540	22	0.71%	20,000	0.032
029	Japan	126,785,797	374,744	348	11.64%	4,184,000	0.033
-	British Virgin Islands (UK)	31,196	153	208	6.67%	1,000	0.034
030	Israel	8,712,400	20,330	403	13.63%	295,000	0.035
031	Marshall Islands	53,127	181.3	295	11.11%	2,000	0.035
032	Colombia	49,065,615	1,038,700	44	1.52%	1,688,600	0.035
033	Papua New Guinea	8,251,162	452,860	18	0.66%	300,000	0.036
034	Samoa	196,440	2,934	69	2.83%	8,000	0.041
035	Jamaica	2,890,299	10,831	267	11.08%	120,000	0.041
036	Antigua and Barbuda	102,012	442.6	232	9.09%	4,000	0.042
037	Sao Tome and Principe	204,327	1,001	213	9.06%	8,700	0.043
038	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	109,897	389	282	12.82%	5,000	0.046
039	Yemen	28,250,420	527,970	54	2.36%	1,248,000	0.046
040	Switzerland	8,466,017	39,770	214	10.09%	398,700	0.048
041	Bangladesh	164,669,751	133,910	1,265	59.65%	7,764,210	0.049
042	Costa Rica	4,905,769	50,660	96	4.85%	247,500	0.051
043	Guatemala	16,913,503	108,430	158	8.04%	862,000	0.052
-	American Samoa (US)	55,641	199	278	15.00%	3,000	0.054
044	Philippines	104,918,090	300,000	352	18.75%	5,590,000	0.054
045	Palau	21,729	458	47	2.17%	1,000	0.056
046	Liechtenstein	37,922	160	237	13.50%	2,160	0.057
047	Ecuador	16,624,858	276,840	67	3.93%	976,000	0.059
048	Mauritius	1,264,613	2,030	623	36.95%	75,000	0.059
049	Netherlands	17,132,854	33,481	509	30.51%	1,028,000	0.060
050	Sri Lanka	21,444,000	64,740	342	20.73%	1,300,000	0.061
-	Faroe Islands (Denmark)	49,290	1,399	35	2.15%	3,000	0.062
051	Chile	18,054,726	748,800	24	1/71%	1,269,800	0.070
052	Vanuatu	276,244	12,200	23	1.64%	20,000	0.072
053	Cyprus	1,179,551	9,240	128	9.16%	84,630	0.072
054	Vietnam	95,540,800	325,360	308	22.57%	6,998,000	0.075
055	Belgium	11,372,068	30,278	376	28.05%	849,400	0.075
056	Dominican Republic	10,766,998	48,380	223	16.56%	800,000	0.077
057	Nepal	29,304,998	143,350	204	14.75%	2,113,700	0.078
058	Somalia	14,742,523	627,337	24	1.75%	1,100,000	0.078
059	Comoros	813,912	2,170	437	34.93%	65,000	0.082
060	Dominica	73,925	754	99	8.00%	6,000	0.084
061	Tajikistan	8,921,343	142,700	64	5.26%	730,000	0.084
062	China	1,386,395,000	9,326,410	148	12.66%	118,900,000	0.086
063	Slovenia	2,066,748	20,151	103	9.13%	183,880	0.089
064	Indonesia	263,991,379	1,826,440	146	12.97%	23,500,000	0.090
065	Democratic Republic of the Congo	81,339,988	2,267,600	36	3.136%	7,100,000	0.090
066	Venezuela	31,977,065	882,050	36	3.06%	2,700,000	0.090
067	United Kingdom	66,022,273	241,590	273	24.91%	6,026,010	0.092
068	Georgia	3,717,100	69,700	65	4.95%	344,000	0.092
069	North Korea	25,490,965	120,410	212	19.52%	2,350,000	0.093
070	Ireland	4,813,608	68,890	70	6.47%	446,000	0.094
071	Cape Verde	546,388	4,033	136	12.41%	50,000	0.094
072	Portugal	10,293,718	91,951	112	10.68%	978,670	0.095
073	Saint Kitts and Nevis	55,345	261	213	19.23%	5,000	0.097
074	Rwanda	12,208,407	24,948	495	46.68%	1,151,700	0.099
075	Haiti	10,981,229	27,560	398	38.82%	1,070,000	0.099
076	Equatorial Guinea	1,267,689	28,051	45	4.28%	120,000	0.099
077	Luxembourg	599,449	2,586	231	25.46%	61,860	0.106
078	Saudi Arabia	32,938,213	1,960,582	15	1.62%	3,477,000	0.107
079	Mauritania	4,420,184	1,030,400	4	0.44%	450,000	0.108
080	Italy	60,551,416	294,020	206	22.45%	6,602,000	0.109
081	Liberia	4,731,906	96,320	49	5.19%	500,000	0.109
082	Honduras	9,265,067	111,890	83	9.12%	1,020,000	0.110
083	Republic of the Congo	5,260,750	341,500	15	1.61%	550,000	0.110
084	Peru	32,165,485	1,280,000	25	2.74%	3,508,000	0.113
085	Burundi	10,864,245	25,650	423	46.73%	1,200,000	0.114
086	Suriname	563,402	161,470	4	0.42%	65,000	0.115
087	El Salvador	6,377,853	20,720	308	35.57%	737,000	0.116
088	India	1,339,180,130	2,973,190	450	52.62%	156,463,000	0.118
089	Kenya	49,699,862	569,250	87	10.19%	5,800,000	0.118
090	Eritrea	4,669,638	121,320	44	6.83%	690,000	0.119
091	Botswana	2,291,661	585,370	4	0.46%	259,600	0.120
092	New Zealand	4,793,900	268,021	18	2.16%	570,000	0.121
093	Côte d'Ivoire	24,294,750	318,000	76	9.12%	2,900,000	0.122
094	East Timor	1,296,311	15,007	87	10.42%	155,000	0.127
095	Bhutan	807,610	47,000	21	2.62%	100,000	0.136
096	Iraq	38,274,618	432,162	88	11.52%	5,000,000	0.137
097	Uzbekistan	32,387,200	425,400	76	10.34%	4,400,000	0.138
098	Panama	4,098,587	75,990	55	7.57%	563,000	0.139
099	Madagascar	25,570,895	581,540	44	6.02%	3,500,000	0.141
100	Germany	82,695,000	349,223	237	33.67%	11,763,000	0.143
101	Ethiopia	104,957,438	1,119,683	105	15.12%	15,119,000	0.146
102	Armenia	2,930,450	28,400	103	15.68%	446,400	0.152
103	Pakistan	197,015,955	778,720	256	40.27%	31,040,000	0.152
104	Norway	5,282,223	307,860	14	2.21%	805,130	0.154
105	Austria	8,809,212	82,444	107	16.29%	1,344,490	0.154
106	Swaziland	1,367,254	17,203	79	10.17%	175,000	0.157
107	Gabon	2,025,137	257,667	8	1.26%	325,000	0.162
108	Ghana	28,833,629	230,940	127	20.66%	4,700,000	0.165
109	Guinea-Bissau	1,861,283	28,000	66	10.67%	300,000	0.168
110	Lesotho	2,233,339	30,355	74	11.59%	352,000	0.170
111	Angola	29,784,193	1,246,700	24	3.93%	4,900,000	0.170
112	Uganda	42,862,958	199,710	214	34.41%	6,900,000	0.174
113	Tonga	108,020	718	150	25.00%	18,000	0.178
114	Algeria	41,318,142	2,381,740	17	3.11%	7,404,200	0.183
115	Nigeria	190,886,311	910,768	210	37.33%	34,000,000	0.183
116	Mexico	129,163,276	1,923,040	66	11.61%	22,562,000	0.183
117	Iran	81,162,788	1,636,000	50	9.02%	14,687,000	0.185
118	Mongolia	3,075,647	1,564,116	2	0.37%	567,200	0.186
119	Fiji	905,502	18,270	50	9.03%	165,000	0.189
-	World	7,530,360,150	148,940,000	58	11.06%	1,400,000,000[10]	0.192
120	Greece	10,760,421	130,800	83	16.60%	2,140,000	0.199
121	Macedonia	2,083,160	24,856	83	16.49%	416,000	0.200
122	Mozambique	29,668,834	784,090	38	7.18%	5,650,000	0.203
123	The Gambia	2,100,568	10,000	208	43.48%	440,000	0.205
124	Azerbaijan	9,862,429	86,100	119	24.18%	1,999,000	0.205
125	Myanmar	53,370,609	657,740	82	16.70%	10,908,000	0.206
126	Croatia	4,125,700	56,414	74	15.58%	872,000	0.209
127	Belize	374,681	22,806	16	3.42%	78,000	0.212
128	Kyrgyzstan	6,201,500	191,300	32	6.72%	1,288,000	0.212
129	Senegal	15,850,567	192,000	82	16.62%	3,200,000	0.213
130	Albania	2,873,457	27,398	105	22.64%	620,300	0.216
131	Sierra Leone	7,557,212	71,620	105	21.95%	1,584,000	0.216
132	Afghanistan	35,530,081	647,500	54	11.84%	7,729,000	0.218
133	Malawi	18,622,104	94,080	198	40.31%	3,800,000	0.221
134	South Africa	56,717,156	1,219,912	47	10.30%	12,500,000	0.222
135	Laos	6,858,160	230,800	30	6.61%	1,525,000	0.223
136	Morocco	35,739,580	446,300	80	18.22%	8,130,000	0.231
137	Zambia	17,094,130	740,724	23	5.11%	3,800,000	0.232
138	Czech Republic	10,591,323	77,276	137	32.30%	2,494,000	0.236
139	Nicaragua	6,217,581	120,254	52	12.50%	1,504,000	0.239
140	Cambodia	16,005,373	176,520	91	21.53%	3,800,000	0.241
141	Thailand	69,037,513	511,770	135	32.90%	16,810,000	0.244
142	Slovakia	5,439,892	48,800	113	28.02%	1,347,000	0.248
143	Benin	11,175,692	110,620	99	23.94%	2,700,000	0.248
144	Tanzania	57,310,019	886,037	65	15.24%	13,500,000	0.254
145	Turkey	80,745,020	770,760	105	26.48%	20,381,000	0.255
146	Tunisia	11,532,127	155,360	74	18.67%	2,900,000	0.257
147	Cameroon	24,053,727	469,440	51	13.12%	6,200,000	0.259
148	Sweden	10,067,744	410,934	25	6.32%	2,574,600	0.259
149	Cuba	11,484,636	110,860	110	28.74%	2,989,400	0.264
150	Guinea	12,717,176	245,857	52	12.62%	3,100,000	0.264
151	Libya	6,374,616	1,759,540	4	0.98%	1,720,000	0.265
152	Spain	46,572,028	499,542	93	24.70%	12,337,180	0.265
153	Syria	18,269,868	184,050	99	25.390%	4,662,000	0.267
154	France	67,118,648	545,630	123	33.52%	18,355,920	0.275
-	Isle of Man (UK)	84,287	572	148	41.23%	23,500	0.282
155	Poland	37,975,841	304,465	124	35.29%	10,806,000	0.285
156	Zimbabwe	16,529,904	386,670	43	10.34%	4,000,000	0.285
157	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3,507,017	51,129	68	20.04%	1,026,000	0.303
158	Burkina Faso	19,193,382	273,800	70	21.93%	6,000,000	0.322
159	Chad	14,899,994	1,259,200	12	3.89%	4,900,000	0.336
160	Namibia	2,533,794	825,418	3	0.97%	800,000	0.339
161	Turkmenistan	5,758,075	488,100	12	4.13%	1,940,000	0.343
162	Togo	7,797,694	54,385	143	48.72%	2,650,000	0.353
163	Mali	18,541,980	1,220,000	15	5.25%	6,411,000	0.357
164	Iceland	341,284	100,250	3	0.07%	121,000	0.361
165	Serbia	7,022,268	88,360	80	29.71%	2,598,000	0.368
166	Brazil	209,288,278	8,456,510	25	9.69%	80,976,000	0.393
167	Central African Republic	4,659,080	622,984	7	2.89%	1,800,000	0.397
168	Bolivia	11,051,600	1,084,390	10	4.11%	4,453,000	0.404
169	Finland	5,511,303	304,473	18	7.39%	2,246,000	0.409
170	Denmark	5,769,603	42,394	137	56.56%	2,375,000	0.415
171	Romania	19,586,539	230,340	85	37.30%	8,582,000	0.436
172	Hungary	9,781,127	92,340	108	47.76%	4,324,200	0.441
173	United States	325,719,178	9,161,923	36	16.65%	152,262,500	0.471
174	Bulgaria	7,075,991	110,550	65	32.20%	3,496,000	0.490
175[7]	Sudan	40,533,330	1,879,358	23	10.55%	19,823,160	0.489
176	Moldova	3,549,750	33,371	124	55.56%	1,827,300	0.514
177	Estonia	1,315,480	42,388	31	16.01%	696,000	0.529
178	Guyana	777,859	196,850	4	2.13%	420,000	0.544
179	Belarus	9,507,875	207,600	47	28.00%	5,683,800	0.598
180	Latvia	1,940,740	64,589	31	20.71%	1,288,000	0.657
181	Uruguay	3,456,750	173,620	20	13.77%	2,410,600	0.704
182	Paraguay	6,811,297	397,300	17	12.08%	4,800,000	0.708
183	Ukraine	44,831,159	603,700	77	56.58%	32,776,000	0.728
184	Lithuania	2,827,721	65,300	45	34.20%	2,142,600	0.747
185	Niger	21,477,348	1,266,700	17	13.26%	16,800,000	0.808
186	Russia	144,495,044	16,995,800	9	7.52%	123,121,820	0.853
187	Argentina	44,271,041	2,736,690	16	14.32%	39,200,000	0.899
188	Canada	36,708,083	9,093,507	4	4.81%	43,766,000	1.212
189	Kazakhstan	18,037,646	2,669,800	7	10.89%	29,395,000	1.652
190[7]	South Sudan	12,575,714	644,330	20	31.04%	20,000,000[11]	1.59
191	Australia	24,598,933	7,617,930	3	5.99%	46,048,000	1.904
-	Anguilla (UK)	13,116	102	129	-	-	-
-	Christmas Island (Australia)	361	135	3	-	-	-
-	Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia)	628	14	3	-	-	-
-	Falkland Islands (UK)	2,967	12,173	0.2	-	-	-
-	Gibraltar (UK)	34,571	6.5	3,457	-	-	-
-	Jersey (UK)	90,812	116	783	-	-	-
-	Macau S.A.R. (PRC)	622,567	28.2	20,547	-	-	-
-	Monaco	38,695	1.95	19,348	-	-	-
-	Montserrat (UK)	9,341	102	92	19.61%	2,000[9]	0.214
-	Nauru	13,649	21	682	-	-	-
-	Niue [12]	2,166	260	8	3.85%	1,000[9]	0.462
-	Norfolk Island (Australia)	1,828	34.6	3	-	-	-
-	Svalbard (Norway)	2,701	62,049	0.04	-	-	-
-	Tokelau (New Zealand)	1,405	10	141	-	-	-
-	Tuvalu	11,192	26	373	-	-	-
-	Vatican City	921	0.44	2,093	-	-	-

Notes

"World Bank: Arable land (hectares per person)". Retrieved 6 January 2020.
"World Bank: Population".
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2147rank.html
"World Bank: Arable land (% of land area)". Retrieved 6 January 2020.
"World Bank: Arable land (hectares)". Retrieved 6 January 2020.
"Index Mundi: Greenland - Arable Land". Retrieved 6 January 2020.
estimated by dividing the value in the "2016 arable land" column by 2016 population
"CIA World Factbook: Taiwan". Retrieved 6 January 2020.
"FAO Stat: Land Use". Retrieved 6 January 2020.
estimated from other values in the World Bank database ("2016 hectares per person"×"2016 population", "2016 % arable"×"2016 sq km", or just sum the arable land of all of the individual countries)
estimated from values given by "Grain: Extent of Farmland Grabbing" (PDF). Retrieved 6 January 2020.
Self-governing state in free association with New Zealand

References

de Blij, H. J.; Murphy, Alexander B.; Fouberg, Erin H. (2006). "Appendix B: Area and Demographic Data for the World's States". Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture (8th ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. pp. A10–A17. ISBN 978-0-471-67951-6.
Muller, Peter O. (January 2000). "Physiologic Population Density for Each of the World's States, Year 2000" (DOC). University of Missouri–St. Louis. Retrieved 2011-04-15.

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[5] "World Bank: Arable land (hectares)". Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[IndexMundi-Greenland-6] "Index Mundi: Greenland - Arable Land". Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[rank_estimated_by_division-7] stimated by dividing the value in the "2016 arable land" column by 2016 population

[8] "CIA World Factbook: Taiwan". Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[FAOStat-LandUse-9] "FAO Stat: Land Use". Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[10] stimated from other values in the World Bank database ("2016 hectares per person"×"2016 population", "2016 % arable"×"2016 sq km", or just sum the arable land of all of the individual countries)

[11] stimated from values given by "Grain: Extent of Farmland Grabbing" (PDF). Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[12] Self-governing state in free association with New Zealand

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