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Switzerland is ranked 67th in country population density. For reference, the United Kingdom is ranked 48th and the United States is ranked 183rd. https://en.wi
by _air 3mo ago
Switzerland is ranked 67th in country population density. For reference, the United Kingdom is ranked 48th and the United States is ranked 183rd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
- MattDamonSpace 3mo agoAmerica is soooo big and soooo sparsely populated
- Octoth0rpe 3mo agoI wonder if that number can be adjusted based on the amount of arable land, or based on the ease of construction (quite the nebulous term here admittedly). The number of mountains presumably makes this hard to compare.
- deepspace 3mo agoThat is an utterly meaningless statistic. Canada, with four times the population, ranks #233, because most of the country is uninhabited / uninhabitable.
- soco 3mo ago> That is an utterly meaningless statistic It's very meaningful, when the main argument is population overcrowding.
- ceejayoz 3mo agoRead the rest of the post.
- Argonaut998 3mo agoThe entire human population can fit within Los Angelas. It’s not a good metric in general. Pressure on public services, resources and housing is far more useful
- jason-johnson 3mo agoThe entire human population could stand there: each person would have roughly 1.5 to 5.4 square feet of space—less than the size of a single chair. If you actually did get all of humanity in LA it would instantly break out in war.
- deaux 3mo agoIt's completely useless, because you're comparing country area level.
- tomjakubowski 3mo agoPopulation weighted density is a better metric for this use case. It's more stable than population density when adding large areas of sparsely populated land, because the denser, more highly populated areas are more heavily weighted. It shows, roughly, the density experienced locally by the average person in some region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_weighted_density https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_weighted_density The problem is it's difficult to compare across polities because nobody will agree on the right granularity of parcel size to use (and indeed, it is not really obvious what the right granularity is, and choice of parcel size can drastically change the number). It's similar to the metrics of "average class size" vs. "student-weighted class size". https://allenschwenk.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/classsizelakewobegon.pdf https://allenschwenk.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/0...
- deaux 3mo agoWhichever of the reasonable parcel sizes you choose, it's still miles better than the population density based solely on the territory of a country.
- sashank_1509 3mo agoIndia is 31, Netherlands is more dense than India. Would not have expected that, but then I remember that India has a massive desert, and the Himalayas. So I guess it makes more sense now.