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The 10 Most Crowded Countries With More Than 10 Million People |
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Bangladesh fits 173.6 million people onto less land than Iowa. The World Bank’s latest figures, updated in July, make it the most crowded big country on Earth by a factor of two. The Netherlands is more crowded than India. Japan does not make the top ten. |
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Source: World Bank WDI (UN population, FAO land area), 2024 data, updated July 2026. Taiwan: Ministry of the Interior. People per sq km of land. |
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Bangladesh has 173.6 million people. That is half the population of the United States. They live on 130,170 square kilometres of land. Iowa has more land than that, and 3.2 million people. Spread Americans out at Bangladesh’s density and the United States would hold 12.2 billion people. That is 1.5 times everyone alive today. Run it the other way. At America’s density, Bangladesh would hold 4.8 million people. Bangladesh is more than twice as crowded as Taiwan, the next country on the list, and the only big country above 1,000. Rwanda and Burundi are #3 and #4. Both are landlocked, hilly and mostly rural. Rwanda fits 14.3 million people into a country slightly smaller than Maryland. Only 30% of Rwandans and 25% of Burundians live in towns. This is crowding on farmland, not in apartment towers. |
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Crowding follows rivers. Bangladesh sits on the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta, the largest river delta on Earth. The Netherlands sits on the delta of the Rhine. Flat, wet, fertile land has fed dense populations for centuries. Five of the top ten are in Asia. Haiti is the only one from the Americas. Meanwhile, the giants. China has 150 people per square kilometre. That is fewer than Germany (239) or the United Kingdom (286). Bangladesh is nearly nine times as crowded as China. The United States has 37. Japan, home of the packed commuter train, ranks 13th at 340. The Philippines missed the list by less than one person per square kilometre. Belgium: 388.9. The Philippines: 388.5. Next year’s figures could swap them. |
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1,333 People per square kilometre of land in Bangladesh. Nearly four times Japan. Twenty-one times the world average. |
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12.2 billion The population of the United States if it were as crowded as Bangladesh. That is 1.5 times everyone alive. |
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13th Japan’s rank among countries of 10 million or more. Behind Haiti, Belgium and the Philippines. |
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534 vs 488 People per square kilometre in the Netherlands and in India. The Dutch live more tightly packed than Indians do. |
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18,537 Monaco’s density, the highest of any country. 38,631 people on 2.1 square kilometres. Nearly 14 times Bangladesh. |
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Rwanda is the one to watch. Its population grows 2.1% a year, and Taiwan’s is shrinking. At those rates, Rwanda passes Taiwan for #2 around 2027. Burundi grows faster still, at 2.6% a year, enough to double its density in 27 years. Japan is shrinking and South Korea has stopped growing. Bangladesh stays on top by a distance. The World Bank’s next annual update shows where the line moves. We’ll be watching. |
