Venezuela is home to Angel Falls — the world's highest uninterrupted waterfall. Despite massive oil reserves, it has faced severe economic and political crisis since the mid-2010s.
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These figures are calculated from the data on this page and compared with the other 195 countries Beelad covers.
| Population density | 31 people per km² rank 149 of 196 (highest first); the average across all 196 countries is 60 per km² |
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| Share of world population | 0.35 % world total: 8,091,734,930 (UN, 1 July 2023) |
| Share of South America | 6.5% of its people, 5.2% of its land area |
| Area in square miles | 353,841 1 km² = 0.386 sq mi |
| Closest in size | Nigeria (923,768 km²) |
| Closest in population | Cameroon (28,372,687 people) |
Venezuela is the only country in our list that uses VES.