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Isn't Light Pollution directly proportional to population density?
by the_arun 6y ago
Isn't Light Pollution directly proportional to population density?
- ehsankia 6y agoIn general yes, though just looking quickly, it seems like Belgium for example was a lot brighter than surrounding countries, and I don't think they have that high of a density? I would liked to see a map like this normalized for population density, though not sure how granular that data is.
- skerit 6y agoBelgium has a pretty high population density: 375/km². That's the 9th most densely populated country of the world. And that is mostly because of Flanders, the part that is actually lit up on the map. Flanders has a population density of 484/km².
- bena 6y agoLooking at the US map, it seems to be.