1.4 Population density and distribution

Question 1

What is population density?

Answer 1

The average number of people per square kilometre in a country or region.

Question 2

What is population distribution?

Answer 2

The way that the population is spread out over a given area, from a small region to the Earth as a whole.

Question 3

What is the difference between ‘densely populated’ and ‘sparsely populated’?

Answer 3

Densely populated: high population density

Sparsely populated: low population density