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Actually, while most infections happen in densely populated areas, most deaths don't. Healthcare access out of densely populated areas involves delays, transpo
by Uberphallus 6y ago
Actually, while most infections happen in densely populated areas, most deaths don't.
Healthcare access out of densely populated areas involves delays, transportation, sometimes airlifts or is just simply sub-par. Also densely populated areas tend to have younger population which is overall less likely to die. All of which shifts a significant part of the death rate towards sparsely populated areas.
Death rate by population density is basically a shapeless scatterplot [0]. Even superdense micronations (Monaco, Singapore, Liechtenstein, etc) don't seem to have significantly high rates, with the notable exception of San Marino, which is still "just" at the level of Czechia.
[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-19-death-rate-vs-population-density?yScale=linear https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-19-death-rate-vs-po...
- HPsquared 6y agoRaw population density (total population / total land area) is a meaningless statistic, as people are clustered together in cities and not evenly spaced around the countryside. The figure you want is population weighted density, which is the density where the "average citizen" lives.
- Uberphallus 6y agoOf course that's a naive analysis, but so was grandparent's. Actually that's why I mention Singapore, Monaco or Liechtenstein, all of their surface is inhabited, or their population concentrated around a single city, but their death rates aren't dissimilar from those of their surrounding countries.