At the beginning of 2014, according to experts, the population was approximately 7.2 billion people. Moreover, people are extremely unevenly distributed around the planet.
Most of the earthlings, about 90%, live in the northern hemisphere. Also, 80% of the population is concentrated in the eastern hemisphere, versus 20% in the western hemisphere, with 60% of people living in Asia (an average of 109 people / km2). About 7% of the world's population is concentrated on 7% of the planet’s territory. And 10-15% of land is completely uninhabited territories - these are the lands of Antarctica, Greenland, etc.
Country Density
There are countries in the world with both low and high population densities. The first group includes, for example, Australia, Greenland, Guiana, Namibia, Libya, Mongolia, Mauritania. The population density in them is not more than two people per square kilometer.
In Asia, there are the most densely populated countries - China, India, Japan, Bangladesh, Taiwan, the Republic of Korea and others. The average density in Europe is 87 people / km2, in America - 64 people / km2, in Africa, Australia and Oceania - 28 people / km2 and 2.05 people / km2, respectively.
States with a small territory are usually very densely populated. This, for example, Monaco, Singapore, Malta, Bahrain, the Republic of Maldives.
Among the cities with the highest population density, Egyptian Cairo (36, 143 people / km2), Chinese Shanghai (2, 683 people / km2 for 2009), Pakistani Karachi (5, 139 people / km2), Turkish Istanbul (6, 521 people) can be distinguished../km2), Japanese Tokyo (5, 740 people / km2), Indian Mumbai and Delhi, Argentinean Buenos Aires, Mexican Mexico City, Moscow, the capital of Russia (10, 500 people / km2), etc.
