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Population density

Index Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density. [1]

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Agriculture

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.

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Allee effect

The Allee effect is a phenomenon in biology characterized by a correlation between population size or density and the mean individual fitness (often measured as per capita population growth rate) of a population or species.

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Antarctica

Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.

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Arable land

Arable land (from Latin arabilis, "able to be plowed") is, according to one definition, land capable of being ploughed and used to grow crops.

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Cairo

Cairo (القاهرة) is the capital of Egypt.

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City

A city is a large human settlement.

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City-state

A city-state is a sovereign state, also described as a type of small independent country, that usually consists of a single city and its dependent territories.

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Country

A country is a region that is identified as a distinct national entity in political geography.

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County

A county is a geographical region of a country used for administrative or other purposes,Chambers Dictionary, L. Brookes (ed.), 2005, Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, Edinburgh in certain modern nations.

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Delaware

Delaware is one of the 50 states of the United States, in the Mid-Atlantic or Northeastern region.

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Demography

Demography (from prefix demo- from Ancient Greek δῆμος dēmos meaning "the people", and -graphy from γράφω graphō, implies "writing, description or measurement") is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings.

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Dependent territory

A dependent territory, dependent area or dependency is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state yet remains politically outside the controlling state's integral area.

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Distance sampling

Distance sampling is a widely used group of closely related methods for estimating the density and/or abundance of populations.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Extinction vortex

Extinction vortices are a class of models through which conservation biologists, geneticists and ecologists can understand the dynamics of and categorize extinctions in the context of their causes.

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Herbert Jacobs

Herbert A. Jacobs (April 8, 1903 – May 20, 1987) was a journalist for the Milwaukee Journal and later a professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Human

Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina.

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Human geography

Human geography is the branch of geography that deals with the study of people and their communities, cultures, economies, and interactions with the environment by studying their relations with and across space and place.

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Human overpopulation

Human overpopulation (or population overshoot) occurs when the ecological footprint of a human population in a specific geographical location exceeds the carrying capacity of the place occupied by that group.

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Idealised population

In population genetics an idealised population is one that can be described using a number of simplifying assumptions.

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Inbreeding

Inbreeding is the production of offspring from the mating or breeding of individuals or organisms that are closely related genetically.

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Lagos

Lagos is a city in the Nigerian state of Lagos.

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List of cities by population density

This is a list of the cities worldwide that have the highest population density.

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List of city districts by population density

This is a list of the most densely populated city subdivisions (30,000+ inh./km²) in the world.

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List of countries and dependencies by population density

This is a list of countries and dependent territories ranked by population density, measured by the number of human inhabitants per square kilometer.

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List of European Union cities proper by population density

This is a list of the European cities with the highest population density.

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List of islands by population density

The following is a list of islands, sorted by population density, and including islands that connect to other island or inland with land mean of transportation (e.g. bridge or tunnel).

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List of population concern organizations

This is a list of organisations who promote a moderation of the size of the human population.

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List of U.S. states and territories by population density

This article includes a sortable table listing the 50 states, the territories, and the District of Columbia by population density, population rank, and land area.

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List of United States cities by population density

The following is a list of incorporated places in the United States with a population density of over 10,000 people per square mile.

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Metropolitan area

A metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as a metro area or commuter belt, is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing.

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Microstate

A microstate or ministate is a sovereign state having a very small population or very small land area, and usually both.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States.

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Number density

In physics, astronomy, chemistry, biology and geography, number density (symbol: n or ρN) is an intensive quantity used to describe the degree of concentration of countable objects (particles, molecules, phonons, cells, galaxies, etc.) in physical space: three-dimensional volumetric number density, two-dimensional areal number density, or one-dimensional line number density.

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Optimum population

Optimum population refers to the size of a population that produces the best results according to chosen end targets.

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Organism

In biology, an organism (from Greek: ὀργανισμός, organismos) is any individual entity that exhibits the properties of life.

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Physiological density

The physiological density or real population density is the number of people per unit area of arable land.

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Population

In biology, a population is all the organisms of the same group or species, which live in a particular geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding.

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Population genetics

Population genetics is a subfield of genetics that deals with genetic differences within and between populations, and is a part of evolutionary biology.

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Population health

Population health has been defined as "the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group".

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Population momentum

Population momentum is a typical consequence of the demographic transition.

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Population pyramid

A population pyramid, also called an "age-sex pyramid", is a graphical illustration that shows the distribution of various age groups in a population (typically that of a country or region of the world), which forms the shape of a pyramid when the population is growing.

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Rural transport problem

The rural transport problem refers to difficulties experienced in providing transport links to rural communities.

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Small population size

Small populations can behave differently from larger populations.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia.

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Standing crop

A standing crop is the total dried biomass of the living organisms present in a given environment.

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Stock (disambiguation)

Stock is a representation of capital paid or invested into a business entity by stockholders.

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Territory

A territory is an administrative division, usually an area that is under the jurisdiction of a state.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

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Urban density

Urban density is a term used in urban planning and urban design to refer to the number of people inhabiting a given urbanized area.

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Urbanization

Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this change.

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Urbanization in Australia

Australia is one of the most urbanised nations, with 90 per cent of the population living in just 0.22 per cent of the country’s land area and 85 per cent living within 50 kilometres of the coast.

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World population

In demographics, the world population is the total number of humans currently living, and was estimated to have reached 7.6 billion people as of May 2018.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_density

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