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Factors influencing global population distribution

Global Population Density
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Global population density

is the spread of people across the world, ie where people live.

is the number of people living in a particular area – usually 1 square kilometre – and can be written as total population/land area.

In 2022 the of the world reached 8 billion people, the vast majority of whom live in the developing world. The world’s population is spread unevenly across the globe with concentrations of large numbers of people living in the same area. The world as a whole has more ‘empty’ areas than ‘crowded’ areas. There are several physical and to explain this.

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