Population Density

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Population Density
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Population density The number of humans who live
in an area, per square mile (or kilometer)
Country A has an area of 10,000 square miles
There are 1 million people who live in Country A
of people of square miles density
1,000,000 10,000 100 people per square mile
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BUT WAIT!

• Not all of an areas land area is inhabitable
  people cant live in some places! (Examples
  Deserts, water, ice caps, etc)

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• The Earth has a total area of 197 million square
  miles, and a population of about 7 billion. This
  equals about 36 people per square mile.

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• If we only use the LAND area of Earth (take away
  the oceans), we come up with 117 people per
  square mile.

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• If we then take away Antarctica, where no one
  lives, we come up with 130 people per square
  mile. We could also take away deserts, high
  mountains, etc, the number grows even higher!

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• A good example of how this affects people is
  Egypt. It has a land area of 387,000 square
  miles, and about 90 million people. This should
  mean it has 198 people per square mile. But since
  everyone lives crowded along the banks of the
  Nile River, the REAL density is about 7,136
  people per square mile!

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• The worlds most densely populated nation is
  Monaco, in Europe. It has 45,781 people per
  square mile. It is also very small (less than one
  square mile in area) but has over 36,000 people.

• The worlds least densely populated nation is
  Mongolia, in Asia. It has 5 people per square
  mile. It is also large (more than 604,000 square
  miles) but has about 1.5 million people.

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The United States

• The USA has an average population density of 87
  people per square mile.

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• The densest is New Jersey, with 1,189 people per
  square mile.

• The least dense is Alaska, with less than 1.5
  people per square mile.

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New Hampshire 147 people per square mile
Gilsum 52/m2
Keene 620/m2
Roxbury 19/m2
Swanzey 160/m2
Troy 120/m2
Richmond 31/m2
Fitzwilliam 67/m2