Population Density in Madagascar

Population density reached 38.3 km per capita in 2015 in Madagascar, according to Faostat. This is 2.82 % more than in the previous year.

Historically, population density in Madagascar reached an all time high of 39.4 km per capita in 2013 and an all time low of 8.98 km per capita in 1961. When compared to Madagascar's main peers, population density in Mozambique amounted to 32.1 km per capita, 43.2 km per capita in South Africa, 71.6 km per capita in Swaziland and 54.0 km per capita in Tanzania in 2015.

Madagascar has been ranked 127th within the group of 179 countries we follow in terms of population density, 6 places above the position seen 10 years ago.