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from rural areas to urban areas due to many of the world generally have a very high density of
purposes, such as medical, educational, better population because many favourable factors are
civic facilities etc. The chief reason for this is available there. The warm climate and fertile soil
that all these facilities are not available in rural help in producing crops almost throughout the
areas. year. In eastern Asia, the areas with high density
include large parts of China, Japan, Korea,
4. Favourable Government Policy : The
government policy plays an important role in Philippines etc. which account for about 25
percent of the total world population. In southern
the settlement process of people at a place. At
times, the government announces tax Asia, the areas of high density include the Indian
concessions and other facilities at certain subcontinent and the countries of South-East Asia,
such as Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia besides those
places. This attracts people to settle there.
in southern Asia, such as India, Pakistan,
Quiz Time Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar. These countries

Fill in the blanks : together account for about 25 percent of the
world’s total population. Thus, Asia has almost
1. Minerals have always attracted human one-half of the total world’s population.
___________ .
The major reasons for the high density of
2. The second group (15-64) is known as the population in western Europe are mineral
___________ population.
resources, technological and industrial
3. Sex ratio means the proportion of ___________ development, and a suitable climate for human
population to the ___________ population in a habitation. This region includes Spain, France,
country. Italy, UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland,

4. A ___________ and ___________ developed Ukraine, European Russia and many other smaller
area attracts manpower as there are avennes for countries.
employment. Industrial development and high standard of living

5. The government policy plays an important role are the main reasons for high density of
in the __________ process of people at a place. population in the eastern coast of North America.
This region includes the St. Lawrence river basin
SPATIAL POPULATION DENSITY and the areas around Great Lakes in Canada and
the US. The immigrants from Europe have settled
We have told you that population density is not
along the Atlantic Coast due to which
uniform throughout the world. It varies due to urbanisation started here at an early date.
several factors which we have discussed above.
Ninety percent of the entire world population Not only specific regions, almost all countries of
lives in the Northern Hemisphere, and sixty the world have some pockets of densely
percent lives just between the latitudes 10°N and populated areas because there are variations in
40°N. The most crowded continents are Asia and geographical and socio-economic factors there.
Europe. Together they have seventy percent of the Areas of Moderate Density
world population. The least crowded continents
The areas with moderate density of population are
are South America, Africa and Australia.
not a constant belt in the countries or continents.
From the viewpoint of population density, the These areas have not a high density, but due to
world can be broadly divided into three classes— some development, people have settled there,
areas of high density, areas of moderate density such as due to agriculture, mining or industry. The
and areas of sparse density. delta region of the Nile Valley, the Mediterranean
Areas of High Density coastal part of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia in North
Africa, plains of Tigris, Euphrates etc. are some of
The fertile river valleys of the industrialised parts
the moderately populated areas.
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