Population density in North America

34 countries in North America, 2023. Unit: people per km² of land. World ranking →

First in the ranking
1,257.3 /km²
Sint Maarten
Median country
247.5 /km²
half above, half below
World
62.1 /km²
World Bank aggregate
Range
0.1 to 1,257.3
Greenland - Sint Maarten

How to read it

Across 34 countries in North America, the highest value is in Sint Maarten (1,257.3 /km²) and the lowest in Greenland (0.1 /km²).

The median country is at 247.5 /km²: half are above, half below.

Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area…

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Source: FAO population estimates, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations… · via World Bank WDI (EN.POP.DNST) · licence

Population density over time

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Ranking of countries

2023
In chart Share of the highest value
1Sint Maarten1,257.3
2Bermuda1,198.1
3Barbados656.6
4Aruba596.4
5Saint-Martin550.3
6Haiti422.3
7Puerto Rico361.2
8Curaçao348.3
9Grenada344.4
10El Salvador304.5
11Cayman Islands304.3
12United States Virgin Islands299.8
13Saint Lucia293.9
14Trinidad and Tobago266.6
15Jamaica262.2
16British Virgin Islands259.9
17Saint Vincent and the Grenadines259.8
18Dominican Republic235.1
19Antigua and Barbuda212.1
20Saint Kitts and Nevis179.8
21Guatemala169.1
22Cuba106.2
23Costa Rica100.0
24Honduras95.1
25Dominica88.7
26Mexico66.7
27Panama60.1
28Nicaragua56.7
29Turks and Caicos Islands48.6
30Bahamas39.9
31United States36.8
32Belize18.0
33Canada4.6
34Greenland0.1
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