Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 1957

Population Density, 1957

1957, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Population Density, 1957 covers 222 countries. Monaco is highest, at 14,156.0403; Greenland is lowest, at 0.0689. The middle country reads 32.9683. Against 1956, 222 values changed (216 up, 6 down), the same countries are covered.

Download CSVCite this year

Population Density · Data for 1957

HighestMonaco

14,156.0403

LowestGreenland

0.0689

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Population Density, 1957, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Population Density, 1957: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
MonacoMCOWestern Europe14,156.0403
MacauMACEastern Asia5,880.8906
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia2,472.4145
GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe2,188.2000
SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia2,135.0966
Vatican CityVATSouthern Europe2,087.5000
MaltaMLTSouthern Europe1,037.1238
BermudaBMUNorthern America755.3704
BarbadosBRBCaribbean525.1023
BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia368.7844
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe327.4889
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa310.5436
BelgiumBELWestern Europe294.9950
CuraçaoCUWCaribbean289.1415
ArubaABWCaribbean285.3611
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia283.7350
TaiwanTWNEastern Asia278.1848
Puerto RicoPRICaribbean267.4569
GrenadaGRDCaribbean259.2559
JapanJPNEastern Asia249.7425
South KoreaKOREastern Asia239.1356
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe235.8033
United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe212.8026
NauruNRUMicronesia207.9000
Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean207.0038

02In 1957

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Monaco14,156.0403
  2. Macau5,880.8906
  3. Hong Kong2,472.4145
  4. Gibraltar2,188.2000
  5. Singapore2,135.0966

Lowest

  1. Greenland0.0689
  2. Mongolia0.5735
  3. Namibia0.6833
  4. Mauritania0.7426
  5. Libya0.7928

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 32.9683. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031956 → 1957

Since 1956

What changed between 1956 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 216 · 6rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Monaco13,906.0403 → 14,156.0403+250.0000
  • Hong Kong2,360.5614 → 2,472.4145+111.8531
  • Singapore2,036.5381 → 2,135.0966+98.5585
  • Malta1,023.6698 → 1,037.1238+13.4540
  • Taiwan267.3174 → 278.1848+10.8674

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1957.

  • Which end is better

    Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1957). Population Density, 1957 [data set], describing 1957. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/population-density/1957

0674 held

Other years

07Questions

Population Density, 1957: questions and answers

Which country has the highest population density in Population Density, 1957?

Monaco, at 14,156.0403, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Population Density, 1957 describe?

1957.

How many countries does Population Density, 1957 cover?

222.

Where can I download Population Density, 1957?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Population Density, 1957 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Population Density, 2023.

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.