Population density (people per sq. km) - Population - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators
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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 under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization and World Bank population estimates.
| Population density (people per sq. km) - Population - Development outcomes - African Development Indicators (2008) |
Rank | Country | Value |
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| 1 | Sub-Saharan Africa | 3,467 |
| 2 | Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa | 3,438 |
| 3 | Africa | 3,347 |
| 4 | Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria | 2,880 |
| 5 | North Africa | 2,853 |
| 6 |  Mauritius | 625.04 |
| 7 | Rwanda | 394.03 |
| 8 | Comoros | 345.82 |
| 9 | Burundi | 314.42 |
| 10 | Seychelles | 187.68 |
| 11 | Sao Tome and Principe | 167.66 |
| 12 | Nigeria | 166.14 |
| 13 | Gambia | 166.02 |
| 14 | Uganda | 160.61 |
| 15 | Malawi | 151.77 |
| 16 | Cape Verde | 123.74 |
| 17 | Togo | 118.75 |
| 18 | Ghana | 102.62 |
| 19 | Egypt | 81.90 |
| 20 | Ethiopia | 80.71 |
| 21 | Benin | 78.30 |
| 22 | Sierra Leone | 77.63 |
| 23 | Morocco | 69.97 |
| 24 | Swaziland | 67.90 |
| 25 | Kenya | 67.71 |
| 26 | Tunisia | 66.47 |
| 27 | Lesotho | 66.45 |
| 28 | Ivory Coast | 64.75 |
| 29 | Senegal | 63.42 |
| 30 | Guinea-Bissau | 56.03 |
| 31 | Burkina Faso | 55.59 |
| 32 | Eritrea | 49.47 |
| 33 | Tanzania | 47.96 |
| 34 | Cameroon | 40.61 |
| 35 | South Africa | 40.09 |
| 36 | Guinea | 40.02 |
| 37 | Liberia | 39.38 |
| 38 | Djibouti | 36.57 |
| 39 | Madagascar | 32.86 |
| 40 | Zimbabwe | 32.22 |
| 41 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 28.32 |
| 42 | Mozambique | 27.70 |
| 43 | Equatorial Guinea | 23.50 |
| 44 | Sudan | 17.40 |
| 45 | Zambia | 16.98 |
| 46 | Angola | 14.45 |
| 47 | Algeria | 14.43 |
| 48 | Somalia | 14.27 |
| 49 | Niger | 11.58 |
| 50 | Republic of the Congo | 10.59 |
| 51 | Mali | 10.42 |
| 52 | Chad | 8.79 |
| 53 | Central African Republic | 7.10 |
| 54 | Gabon | 5.62 |
| 55 | Libya | 3.57 |
| 56 | Botswana | 3.36 |
| 57 | Mauritania | 3.10 |
| 58 | Namibia | 2.57 |
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