population density

English

Noun

population density (countable and uncountable, plural population densities)

1. Average population per unit area; especially, the average number of people who live per square kilometer (or square mile) of land.
   • 2023 September 6, Philip Haigh, “£30 billion plan to transform the rail network in Ireland”, in RAIL, number 991, page 25:

     It couldn't make the Sligo case, noting "Given the relatively low population density and lack of larger towns across the region, the review has found that expansion of rail is difficult to justify in much of the region."

Translations

average number of people per area

• Arabic: كَثَافَة سُكَّانِيَّة (kaṯāfa(t) sukkāniyya)
• Asturian: densidá de población f
• Belarusian: шчыльнасць насельніцтва f (ščylʹnascʹ nasjelʹnictva)
• Bengali: জনঘনত্ব (jonghontto), জনসংখ্যার ঘনত্ব (jonośoṅkhar ghontto)
• Catalan: densitat de població f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 人口密度 (zh) (rénkǒu mìdù)

• Czech: hustota zalidnění f
• Danish: befolkningstæthed c
• Dutch: bevolkingsdichtheid (nl) f
• Finnish: väestöntiheys
• French: densité de population (fr) f
• Galician: densidade de poboación f
• German: Bevölkerungsdichte (de) f
• Greek: πυκνότητα πληθυσμού (pyknótita plithysmoú)
• Hebrew: צפיפות אוכלוסייה (tsfifút ukhlusiyá)
• Hindi: जनसंख्या घनत्व (jansaṅkhyā ghanatva)
• Hungarian: népsűrűség (hu)
• Indonesian: kepadatan penduduk (id), kepadatan populasi
• Italian: densità di popolazione f
• Japanese: 人口密度 (ja) (じんこうみつど, jinkō mitsudo)
• Korean: 인구 밀도(人口密度) (in'gu mildo)
• Latvian: iedzīvotāju blīvums m
• Lithuanian: gyventojų tankumas m
• Malay: kepadatan populasi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: befolkningstetthet (no) m or f, folketetthet m or f

  Nynorsk: folketettleik m

• Persian: تراکم جمعیت (tarâkom jam'iyyat), انبوهی جمعیت (anbuhi jam'iyyat)
• Polish: gęstość zaludnienia (pl) f
• Portuguese: densidade demográfica (pt) f
• Romanian: densitatea populației (ro) f
• Russian: пло́тность населе́ния (ru) f (plótnostʹ naselénija)
• Spanish: densidad de población (es), población relativa
• Swedish: befolkningstäthet (sv) c, folktäthet (sv) c
• Tagalog: kasiksikan ng santauhan
• Thai: ความหนาแน่นประชากร (kwaam-nǎa-nɛ̂n bprà-chaa-gɔɔn)
• Turkish: nüfus yoğunluğu (tr)
• Ukrainian: густота́ насе́лення f (hustotá nasélennja)
• Urdu: کثافتِ آبادی (kesafati ābādī)
• Vietnamese: mật độ dân số

Further reading

• “population density”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.