Areal factor
The area index is a value used in population geography. It is calculated using the formula "area in m²" divided by "population".
The area number indicates what area is available to the individual resident of a country or a region if the area is evenly distributed among all residents.
Some exemplary values:
- State with the smallest area index: Monaco 56 m² / inhabitant (2.02 km² with 36,136 inhabitants)
- Territorial state with the smallest areal index: Bangladesh 917 m² / inhabitant (147,570 km² with 161 million inhabitants)
- Territorial state with the highest areal index : Mongolia 504,000 m² / inhabitant (1,564,116 km² with 3.1 million inhabitants)
- Autonomous area with the largest areal index : Greenland 38 million m² / inhabitant (2,166,086 km² with 56,370 inhabitants)
For comparison: Germany 4,431 m² / inhabitant (357,121 km² with 80.586 million inhabitants)
The areal index represents the reciprocal of the population density .
literature
- DIERCKE Dictionary General Geography: Ed. Hartmut Reader. Munich May 1997
- Bernd Rönz, Hans Gerhard Strohe: Lexicon Statistics. Wiesbaden 1994, p. 18