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Population density is the number of people per unit of area, usually transcribed as "per square kilometer" or square mile, and which may include or exclude, for example, areas of water or glaciers. Commonly this is calculated for a county, city, country, another territory or the entire world . The world's population is around 8,000,000,000 [3 ...
2.27 (2021) Earth has a human population of over 8 billion as of 2024, with an overall population density of 50 people per km 2 (130 per sq. mile). Nearly 60% of the world's population lives in Asia, with almost 2.8 billion in the countries of China and India combined. The percentage shares of China, India and rest of South Asia of the world ...
This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1. The list also includes unrecognized but de facto independent countries.
Population dynamics has traditionally been the dominant branch of mathematical biology, which has a history of more than 220 years, [1] although over the last century the scope of mathematical biology has greatly expanded. [citation needed] The beginning of population dynamics is widely regarded as the work of Malthus, formulated as the ...
9. Swains Island, American Samoa. 17. 10. Palmyra Atoll, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands. 20 [note 3] Los Angeles in Los Angeles County, California, the most populous county in the United States. Swains Island, American Samoa — the least-populous inhabited county or county-equivalent in the United States.
Area is from official figures. [17] ^ Excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Overall density is 2.5/km² when including those two. ^ Mainland France (122/km²) and Corsica (39/km²) comprise European France or Metropolitan France. Overall density is 107/km² when including Overseas departments (24/km²). [18] ^ Excluding Madeira (313/km²).
In 2018, Europe had a total population of over 751 million people. [1] [2] 448 million of that live in the European Union and 110 million live in European Russia, Russia being the most populous country in Europe. Europe's population growth is low, and its median age high.
In world demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living. It was estimated by the United Nations to have exceeded eight billion in mid-November 2022. It took around 300,000 years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach a billion and only 222 years more to reach 8 billion.