List of African countries by population density

This is a list of African countries and dependencies by population density in inhabitants/km². Saint Helena, being closest to Africa, has been included.^{[citation needed]}

country	pop. dens. (/km²)	area (km²)	population (2002-07-01 est.)
Mauritius	588	2,040	1,200,206
Mayotte (Fr.)	457	374	170,879
Réunion (Fr.)	296	2,512	743,981
Comoros	283	2,170	614,382
Rwanda	281	26,338	7,398,074
Burundi	229	27,830	6,373,002
Seychelles	176	455	80,098
São Tomé and Príncipe	170	1,001	170,372
Nigeria	141	923,768	129,934,911
Gambia	129	11,300	1,455,842
Uganda	105	236,040	24,699,073
Cape Verde	101	4,033	408,760
Togo	93	56,785	5,285,501
Malawi	90	118,480	10,701,824
Ghana	85	239,460	20,244,154
Sierra Leone	78	71,740	5,614,743
Lesotho	73	30,355	2,207,954
Egypt	71	1,001,450	70,712,345
Morocco (excluding Western Sahara)	70	446,550	31,167,783
Swaziland	65	17,363	1,123,605
Benin	60	112,620	6,787,625
Ethiopia	60	1,127,127	67,673,031
Tunisia	60	163,610	9815,644
Senegal	54	196,190	10,589,571
Kenya	53	582,650	31,138,735
Côte d'Ivoire	52	322,460	16,804,784
Burkina Faso	46	274,200	12,603,185
Tanzania	39	945,087	37,187,939
Guinea-Bissau	37	36,120	1,345,479
Eritrea	37	121,320	4,465,651
South Africa	36	1,219,912	43,647,658
Cameroon	34	475,440	16,184,748
Guinea	32	245,857	7,775,065
Liberia	30	111,370	3,288,198
Zimbabwe	29	390,580	11,376,676
Madagascar	28	587,040	16,473,477
Mozambique	24	801,590	19,607,519
Democratic Republic of the Congo	24	2,345,410	55,225,478
Djibouti	21	23,000	472,810
Sudan	19	1,861,484	34,847,910
Equatorial Guinea	18	28,051	498,144
South Sudan	17	644,329	11,100,000
Algeria	14	2,381,740	32,277,942
Zambia	13	752,614	9,959,037
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (UK)	13	420	5,661
Somalia	12	637,657	7,753,310
Mali	9.1	1,240,000	11,340,480
Republic of the Congo	8.7	342,000	2,958,448
Angola	8.5	1,246,700	10,593,171
Niger	8.4	1,267,000	10,639,744
Chad	8.0	1,284,000	10,329,208
Central African Republic	5.8	622,984	3,642,739
Gabon	4.6	267,667	1,233,353
Libya	3.1	1,759,540	5,368,585
Mauritania	2.7	1,030,700	2,828,858
Botswana	2.7	600,370	1,591,232
Namibia	2.2	825,418	1,820,916
Western Sahara	1.0	266,000	256,177
AVERAGE/TOTAL	27.721273	30,360,298	841,626,094