Which country in North America has the highest population density?

Barbados has the highest population density in North America: 644 people per km² (2025). Next come Haiti (429 people per km²) and Grenada (336 people per km²).

Which country in North America has the lowest population density?

Canada, with 4.2 people per km² (2025).

What is the typical population density of a country in North America?

The median of the 23 countries in North America is 172 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, 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.

Countries in North America by population density

People per square kilometre of total area, from the population and area figures on this site. 23 countries in North America, highest first. World Bank, Wikidata, 2025

See it on the map

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Highest

644

Barbados

Median country

172

half above, half below

Lowest

4.2

Canada

Countries in North America by population density, World Bank, Wikidata, 2025
#	Country	Per km²	Region
1	Barbados	644	Caribbean
2	Haiti	429	Caribbean
3	Grenada	336	Caribbean
4	El Salvador	303	Central America
5	Saint Lucia	292	Caribbean
6	Trinidad and Tobago	267	Caribbean
7	Jamaica	258	Caribbean
8	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	257	Caribbean
9	Dominican Republic	237	Caribbean
10	Antigua and Barbuda	214	Caribbean
11	Saint Kitts and Nevis	174	Caribbean
12	Guatemala	172	Central America
13	Costa Rica	101	Central America
14	Cuba	100	Caribbean
15	Honduras	98	Central America
16	Dominica	88	Caribbean
17	Mexico	67	Central America
18	Panama	62	Central America
19	Nicaragua	58	Central America
20	United States	35	Northern America
21	Bahamas	29	Caribbean
22	Belize	18	Central America
23	Canada	4.2	Northern America

Territories and other places

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

Place	Per km²	Status
Sint Maarten	1,292	Territory of Netherlands
Bermuda	1,218	Territory of United Kingdom
Aruba	608	Territory of Netherlands
Saint Martin	471	Territory of France
Saint Barthélemy	422	Territory of France
Curaçao	352	Territory of Netherlands
Puerto Rico	350	Territory of United States of America
US Virgin Islands	300	Territory of United States of America
Cayman Islands	287	Territory of United Kingdom
British Virgin Islands	263	Territory of United Kingdom
Anguilla	210	Territory of United Kingdom
Turks and Caicos Islands	112	Territory of United Kingdom
Montserrat	53	Territory of United Kingdom
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	25	Territory of France
Greenland	0.03	Territory of Denmark

Questions

Which country in North America has the highest population density?: Barbados has the highest population density in North America: 644 people per km² (2025). Next come Haiti (429 people per km²) and Grenada (336 people per km²).
Which country in North America has the lowest population density?: Canada, with 4.2 people per km² (2025).
What is the typical population density of a country in North America?: The median of the 23 countries in North America is 172 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, 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.