While some countries cram millions into bustling urban centers, others spread their populations thinly across vast, often ...

Other small urban regions, like Monaco, Singapore and Vatican City, also ranked highly in population density. While these ...

Population datasets are often calibrated for urban environments, where population density is high and data is more accessible. But rural areas are harder to map, and the data we have is often ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Population Density and Social Pathology ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 206 No. 2 (February 1962), p. 139 doi:10.1038 ...

A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ...

Because of this, exponential growth may apply to populations establishing new environments, during transient, favorable conditions, and by populations with low initial population density.

informs us about environmental associations and social interactions among individuals in the population. How many organisms there are per unit area is referred to as density. Both of these ...

The city ranks 69th in population density—people per square mile—among U.S. cities with more than a hundred thousand people, ahead of Las Vegas, Denver, Phoenix, and Portland, Oregon ...

An archaeological study of human settlement during the Final Palaeolithic revealed that populations in Europe did not decrease homogenously during the last cold phase of the Ice Age. Significant ...