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It would be interesting to determine the effects of things like population density and urbanisation on the death rate. Sweden is a pretty sparsely populated cou
by zelos 6y ago
It would be interesting to determine the effects of things like population density and urbanisation on the death rate. Sweden is a pretty sparsely populated country I think, which presumably acts to reduce the rate of spreading?
- ptaipale 6y agoSweden has a population density and urbanisation rate that is somewhat higher than Norway or Finland, but Denmark is far more dense. However, Sweden's infection rate is far higher than Denmark's. Of course here we are comparing a fairly small data set. But fortunately our friends at Our World In Data have collected a nice graph of it: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-19-death-rate-vs-population-density?minPopulationFilter=1000000&time=latest https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-19-death-rate-vs-po... As you can see, it's not easy to draw a trendline that would show that a higher population density would produce higher covid infection rate. Basically, the pattern is what you get from a shotgun.
- collyw 6y agoPopulation density is a red herring on it's own. Spain has a relatively low population density, but the cities are probably some of the most dense in Europe. Likewise 1/3 of Swedes live in cities, while there are huge areas that are very sparsely populated in the north.