Countries in Asia by population density

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed. Highest first.

Place	Per km²	Status
Macao	5,964	Territory of China
Hong Kong	2,722	Territory of China
Palestine	659	Status disputed

Questions

Which country in Asia has the highest population density?

Singapore has the highest population density in Asia: 8,500 people per km² (2025). Next come Bahrain (2,034 people per km²) and the Maldives (1,777 people per km²).

Which country in Asia has the lowest population density?

Mongolia, with 2.3 people per km² (2025).

What is the typical population density of a country in Asia?

The median of the 48 countries in Asia is 133 people per km²: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

People per square kilometre of total area, from the population and area figures on this site. Source: World Bank, Wikidata, mostly 2025. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank, Wikidata. Where the World Bank has no estimate, the population is Wikidata’s. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.