Population ages 65 and above, total, per square kilometre by country

Population ages 65 and above, total divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
215
Highest
6,796 units per square kilometre
Monaco
Lowest
0.014 units per square kilometre
Greenland
Median
7.58 units per square kilometre
Years covered
63
1961–2023
Data points
15,281

What the numbers show

Population ages 65 and above, total, per square kilometre is currently reported for 215 countries. The highest value is 6,796 units per square kilometre in Monaco; the lowest is 0.014 units per square kilometre in Greenland.

The median across all reporting countries is 7.58 units per square kilometre, and the mean is 79.49 units per square kilometre.

Population ages 65 and above, total, per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Monaco 6,796 units per square kilometre 2023 up 23.1% rising
2 Macao 2,773 units per square kilometre 2023 up 82.2% rising
3 Hong Kong 1,554 units per square kilometre 2023 up 59.3% volatile
4 Singapore 1,079 units per square kilometre 2023 up 73.1% volatile
5 Gibraltar 672.1 units per square kilometre 2023 up 24.1% rising
6 Malta 342.01 units per square kilometre 2023 up 48.5% rising
7 Bermuda 250.56 units per square kilometre 2023 up 41.6% rising
8 Sint Maarten (Dutch part) 169.09 units per square kilometre 2023 up 146.4% rising
9 San Marino 122.37 units per square kilometre 2023 up 23.7% rising
10 Netherlands 107.02 units per square kilometre 2023 up 27.1% rising
11 Barbados 105.67 units per square kilometre 2023 up 32.3% rising
12 Japan 100.97 units per square kilometre 2023 up 13.6% volatile
13 Aruba 97.63 units per square kilometre 2023 up 55.5% volatile
14 Republic of Korea 97.15 units per square kilometre 2023 up 55.1% volatile
15 Saint Martin (French part) 94.68 units per square kilometre 2023 up 100.4% rising
16 Puerto Rico 87.57 units per square kilometre 2023 up 26.3% rising
17 Bangladesh 83.38 units per square kilometre 2023 up 49.9% volatile
18 Mauritius 80.92 units per square kilometre 2023 up 59.9% volatile
19 Belgium 77.82 units per square kilometre 2023 up 19.4% rising
20 Maldives 76.69 units per square kilometre 2023 up 37.7% volatile
21 Bahrain 71.72 units per square kilometre 2023 up 79.4% volatile
22 United States Virgin Islands 66.68 units per square kilometre 2023 up 36.1% volatile
23 Curacao 56.71 units per square kilometre 2023 up 24.7% rising
24 Israel 56.51 units per square kilometre 2023 up 43.3% volatile
25 Lebanon 55.45 units per square kilometre 2023 up 57.1% volatile
26 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 54.49 units per square kilometre 2023 up 18.6% rising
27 Germany 54.32 units per square kilometre 2023 up 12.9% rising
28 Liechtenstein 50.21 units per square kilometre 2023 up 41.4% volatile
29 Italy 48.31 units per square kilometre 2023 up 11.0% rising
30 Switzerland 44.12 units per square kilometre 2023 up 23.0% rising
31 Sri Lanka 41.82 units per square kilometre 2023 up 53.6% volatile
32 Grenada 40.88 units per square kilometre 2023 up 24.3% rising
33 Luxembourg 39.1 units per square kilometre 2023 up 32.1% rising
34 Guam 37.36 units per square kilometre 2023 up 58.4% volatile
35 Isle of Man 33.54 units per square kilometre 2023 up 18.3% rising
36 India 33.48 units per square kilometre 2023 up 48.2% volatile
37 Palestine, State of 32.6 units per square kilometre 2023 up 56.4% rising
38 Trinidad and Tobago 31.6 units per square kilometre 2023 up 68.4% rising
39 Denmark 30.63 units per square kilometre 2023 up 20.9% rising
40 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 30.04 units per square kilometre 2023 up 18.7% rising
41 Czechia 28.93 units per square kilometre 2023 up 24.4% rising
42 Portugal 27.84 units per square kilometre 2023 up 24.3% rising
43 Viet Nam 27.6 units per square kilometre 2023 up 54.7% rising
44 France 27.59 units per square kilometre 2023 up 25.7% rising
45 Saint Lucia 27.33 units per square kilometre 2023 up 23.9% rising
46 Andorra 26.53 units per square kilometre 2023 up 30.0% volatile
47 North Korea 26.39 units per square kilometre 2023 up 18.8% volatile
48 Cayman Islands 25.99 units per square kilometre 2023 up 84.4% volatile
49 El Salvador 24.36 units per square kilometre 2023 up 18.5% volatile
50 British Virgin Islands 23.92 units per square kilometre 2023 up 73.2% volatile
51 Antigua and Barbuda 23.84 units per square kilometre 2023 up 55.7% rising
52 Poland 23.43 units per square kilometre 2023 up 30.7% rising
53 Slovenia 22.47 units per square kilometre 2023 up 28.1% rising
54 Austria 22.31 units per square kilometre 2023 up 19.3% rising
55 Hungary 21.88 units per square kilometre 2023 up 15.8% rising
56 Seychelles 21.69 units per square kilometre 2023 up 57.8% rising
57 Rwanda 21.62 units per square kilometre 2023 up 69.5% volatile
58 China 21.51 units per square kilometre 2023 up 58.3% volatile
59 Cyprus 20.85 units per square kilometre 2023 up 35.4% rising
60 Thailand 20.66 units per square kilometre 2023 up 59.0% volatile
61 Jamaica 20.62 units per square kilometre 2023 up 27.8% rising
62 Tuvalu 20.53 units per square kilometre 2023 up 4.2% rising
63 Comoros 20.44 units per square kilometre 2023 up 31.2% rising
64 Slovakia 20.37 units per square kilometre 2023 up 36.2% rising
65 Philippines 20.28 units per square kilometre 2023 up 68.7% volatile
66 Spain 19.99 units per square kilometre 2023 up 20.2% rising
67 Haiti 19.5 units per square kilometre 2023 up 31.0% rising
68 Saint Kitts and Nevis 19.24 units per square kilometre 2023 up 43.6% rising
69 Greece 18.96 units per square kilometre 2023 up 9.8% rising
70 American Samoa 17.94 units per square kilometre 2023 up 42.5% volatile
71 Dominican Republic 17.82 units per square kilometre 2023 up 55.6% volatile
72 Serbia 17.59 units per square kilometre 2023 up 19.6% rising
73 Cuba 17.19 units per square kilometre 2023 up 16.5% rising
74 Romania 16.36 units per square kilometre 2023 up 14.5% rising
75 Naoero 15.9 units per square kilometre 2023 up 127.1% rising
76 Croatia 15.74 units per square kilometre 2023 up 12.6% rising
77 Albania 14.35 units per square kilometre 2023 up 18.1% rising
78 Armenia 13.89 units per square kilometre 2023 up 22.2% rising
79 Pakistan 13.47 units per square kilometre 2023 up 29.8% volatile
80 Bosnia and Herzegovina 13.46 units per square kilometre 2023 up 17.0% rising
81 Burundi 13.38 units per square kilometre 2023 up 47.7% rising
82 Nepal 13.18 units per square kilometre 2023 up 32.2% volatile
83 Bulgaria 12.96 units per square kilometre 2023 up 1.6% rising
84 North Macedonia 12.68 units per square kilometre 2023 up 33.5% rising
85 Ukraine 12.09 units per square kilometre 2023 up 3.8% rising
86 Ireland 11.98 units per square kilometre 2023 up 43.4% rising
87 Costa Rica 11.72 units per square kilometre 2023 up 55.6% volatile
88 Republic of Moldova 11.65 units per square kilometre 2023 up 26.2% rising
89 Dominica 11.3 units per square kilometre 2023 up 19.8% rising
90 Türkiye 11.09 units per square kilometre 2023 up 50.8% volatile
91 Indonesia 10.47 units per square kilometre 2023 up 27.9% volatile
92 Azerbaijan 9.84 units per square kilometre 2023 up 52.0% rising
93 Tonga 9.59 units per square kilometre 2023 up 7.8% rising
94 Marshall Islands 9.45 units per square kilometre 2023 up 40.9% rising
95 Sao Tome and Principe 9.3 units per square kilometre 2023 up 29.9% rising
96 Micronesia (country) 9.22 units per square kilometre 2023 up 68.2% rising
97 Lithuania 9.11 units per square kilometre 2023 up 5.0% rising
98 French Polynesia 8.69 units per square kilometre 2023 up 60.7% volatile
99 Northern Mariana Islands 8.57 units per square kilometre 2023 up 92.2% rising
100 Cape Verde 8.53 units per square kilometre 2023 up 35.4% rising
101 Georgia 8.19 units per square kilometre 2023 up 10.5% rising
102 Montenegro 8.1 units per square kilometre 2023 up 27.7% rising
103 Kuwait 8.04 units per square kilometre 2023 up 97.2% volatile
104 Guatemala 8.01 units per square kilometre 2023 up 38.4% volatile
105 Malaysia 7.97 units per square kilometre 2023 up 61.0% volatile
106 Gambia 7.94 units per square kilometre 2023 up 44.0% rising
107 Belarus 7.71 units per square kilometre 2023 up 19.7% rising
108 Nigeria 7.58 units per square kilometre 2023 up 27.1% rising
109 Tunisia 7.2 units per square kilometre 2023 up 49.8% volatile
110 Faroe Islands 7.04 units per square kilometre 2023 up 26.6% rising
111 Kiribati 6.74 units per square kilometre 2023 up 32.8% rising
112 Estonia 6.71 units per square kilometre 2023 up 21.6% rising
113 Morocco 6.61 units per square kilometre 2023 up 58.9% volatile
114 Latvia 6.46 units per square kilometre 2023 up 5.5% rising
115 United States 6.42 units per square kilometre 2023 up 35.3% rising
116 Syria 6.02 units per square kilometre 2023 up 36.0% volatile
117 Cambodia 5.88 units per square kilometre 2023 up 60.8% volatile
118 Myanmar 5.88 units per square kilometre 2023 up 41.6% rising
119 Ecuador 5.86 units per square kilometre 2023 up 47.0% volatile
120 Malawi 5.8 units per square kilometre 2023 up 3.7% rising
121 Egypt 5.72 units per square kilometre 2023 up 46.2% rising
122 Brunei Darussalam 5.67 units per square kilometre 2023 up 93.7% volatile
123 Jordan 5.57 units per square kilometre 2023 up 75.6% volatile
124 Togo 5.45 units per square kilometre 2023 up 27.3% volatile
125 Panama 5.44 units per square kilometre 2023 up 55.4% volatile
126 Ghana 5.39 units per square kilometre 2023 up 33.8% volatile
127 Mexico 5.33 units per square kilometre 2023 up 36.9% volatile
128 Sweden 5.31 units per square kilometre 2023 up 17.0% rising
129 Turks and Caicos Islands 5.3 units per square kilometre 2023 up 98.2% volatile
130 Uganda 5.22 units per square kilometre 2023 up 55.7% rising
131 Timor-Leste 4.97 units per square kilometre 2023 up 27.1% volatile
132 Uzbekistan 4.61 units per square kilometre 2023 up 44.6% rising
133 Bahamas 4.59 units per square kilometre 2023 up 23.0% volatile
134 Samoa 4.45 units per square kilometre 2023 up 30.0% rising
135 Colombia 4.42 units per square kilometre 2023 up 62.4% volatile
136 Iran 4.42 units per square kilometre 2023 up 60.5% volatile
137 Finland 4.33 units per square kilometre 2023 up 26.9% rising
138 Palau 4.18 units per square kilometre 2023 up 56.6% rising
139 Honduras 4.08 units per square kilometre 2023 up 59.5% volatile
140 Benin 3.86 units per square kilometre 2023 up 33.3% rising
141 Sierra Leone 3.76 units per square kilometre 2023 up 25.2% rising
142 Qatar 3.63 units per square kilometre 2023 up 103.0% volatile
143 Chile 3.62 units per square kilometre 2023 up 42.7% volatile
144 Ethiopia 3.62 units per square kilometre 2023 up 44.5% rising
145 Iraq 3.53 units per square kilometre 2023 up 44.6% rising
146 South Africa 3.39 units per square kilometre 2023 up 42.4% volatile
147 Senegal 3.37 units per square kilometre 2023 up 32.3% volatile
148 New Zealand 3.32 units per square kilometre 2023 up 39.6% rising
149 Fiji 3.21 units per square kilometre 2023 up 29.6% rising
150 Uruguay 3.06 units per square kilometre 2023 up 10.8% rising
151 Nicaragua 3.05 units per square kilometre 2023 up 36.0% volatile
152 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 2.99 units per square kilometre 2023 up 42.6% volatile
153 Eswatini 2.97 units per square kilometre 2023 up 39.9% rising
154 Lesotho 2.91 units per square kilometre 2023 up 8.3% rising
155 Norway 2.81 units per square kilometre 2023 up 27.9% rising
156 Kenya 2.78 units per square kilometre 2023 up 55.8% volatile
157 Tajikistan 2.73 units per square kilometre 2023 up 56.9% rising
158 Brazil 2.69 units per square kilometre 2023 up 53.5% volatile
159 Côte d'Ivoire 2.52 units per square kilometre 2023 up 32.4% volatile
160 United Arab Emirates 2.5 units per square kilometre 2023 up 55.8% volatile
161 Guinea-Bissau 2.41 units per square kilometre 2023 up 42.9% rising
162 Equatorial Guinea 2.39 units per square kilometre 2023 up 52.6% volatile
163 Peru 2.38 units per square kilometre 2023 up 30.5% volatile
164 Djibouti 2.36 units per square kilometre 2023 up 41.0% volatile
165 Tanzania, United Republic of 2.29 units per square kilometre 2023 up 42.5% volatile
166 Burkina Faso 2.21 units per square kilometre 2023 up 27.7% rising
167 Argentina 2.03 units per square kilometre 2023 up 21.2% rising
168 Guinea 2.02 units per square kilometre 2023 up 24.5% rising
169 Kyrgyzstan 2.01 units per square kilometre 2023 up 44.0% rising
170 Yemen 1.87 units per square kilometre 2023 up 22.5% rising
171 Liberia 1.87 units per square kilometre 2023 up 25.2% volatile
172 Madagascar 1.79 units per square kilometre 2023 up 61.7% rising
173 New Caledonia 1.76 units per square kilometre 2023 up 40.5% volatile
174 Cameroon 1.67 units per square kilometre 2023 up 26.2% rising
175 Zimbabwe 1.53 units per square kilometre 2023 up 36.3% rising
176 Afghanistan 1.51 units per square kilometre 2023 up 32.6% rising
177 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1.51 units per square kilometre 2023 up 30.5% rising
178 Russian Federation 1.46 units per square kilometre 2023 up 28.9% rising
179 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 1.43 units per square kilometre 2023 up 36.3% volatile
180 Bhutan 1.31 units per square kilometre 2023 up 27.5% volatile
181 Algeria 1.24 units per square kilometre 2023 up 53.3% volatile
182 Eritrea 1.19 units per square kilometre 2023 up 22.3% rising
183 Mozambique 1.18 units per square kilometre 2023 up 36.8% rising
184 Vanuatu 1.11 units per square kilometre 2023 up 50.2% volatile
185 Paraguay 1.1 units per square kilometre 2023 up 37.3% volatile
186 Solomon Islands 1.04 units per square kilometre 2023 up 41.1% volatile
187 Canada 0.8821 units per square kilometre 2023 up 48.0% rising
188 Belize 0.8726 units per square kilometre 2023 up 45.8% rising
189 Sudan 0.8604 units per square kilometre 2023 up 62.6% rising
190 Angola 0.8287 units per square kilometre 2023 up 45.2% volatile
191 Papua New Guinea 0.7682 units per square kilometre 2023 up 50.7% volatile
192 Somalia 0.7505 units per square kilometre 2023 up 55.7% rising
193 Turkmenistan 0.6695 units per square kilometre 2023 up 48.5% rising
194 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.6273 units per square kilometre 2023 up 14.5% rising
195 Kazakhstan 0.6256 units per square kilometre 2023 up 48.8% rising
196 Australia 0.6025 units per square kilometre 2023 up 39.3% rising
197 Iceland 0.5871 units per square kilometre 2023 up 39.1% rising
198 Niger 0.531 units per square kilometre 2023 up 49.6% volatile
199 Zambia 0.5294 units per square kilometre 2023 up 45.1% rising
200 South Sudan 0.5292 units per square kilometre 2023 up 16.6% rising
201 Congo 0.5277 units per square kilometre 2023 up 38.6% rising
202 Mali 0.4686 units per square kilometre 2023 up 20.8% rising
203 Saudi Arabia 0.442 units per square kilometre 2023 up 47.7% volatile
204 Oman 0.434 units per square kilometre 2023 up 35.9% volatile
205 Gabon 0.3898 units per square kilometre 2023 up 28.6% rising
206 Chad 0.3183 units per square kilometre 2023 up 39.4% rising
207 Suriname 0.2986 units per square kilometre 2023 up 40.7% rising
208 Guyana 0.2536 units per square kilometre 2023 up 32.2% rising
209 Libya 0.2025 units per square kilometre 2023 up 28.7% volatile
210 Botswana 0.1737 units per square kilometre 2023 up 34.0% rising
211 Central African Republic 0.1733 units per square kilometre 2023 up 22.7% rising
212 Mauritania 0.1567 units per square kilometre 2023 up 15.3% volatile
213 Namibia 0.1285 units per square kilometre 2023 up 34.2% rising
214 Mongolia 0.1086 units per square kilometre 2023 up 53.9% rising
215 Greenland 0.014 units per square kilometre 2023 up 37.5% rising

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Population ages 65 and above, total divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Population ages 65 and above, total ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Population ages 65 and above, total, per square kilometre
Unit
units per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
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Coverage
263 places, 15,281 data points, 1961–2023
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Population ages 65 and above, total divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.