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> This argument does not make sense. The OP compares Sweden to its closest neighbours > +87% of the Swedish population live in urban area As do +83% +85% and
by d_t_w 5y ago
> This argument does not make sense.
The OP compares Sweden to its closest neighbours
> +87% of the Swedish population live in urban area
As do +83% +85% and +88% of the three closest neighbours OP compared Sweden.
In what way does that comparison not make sense?
- supperburg 5y ago“but a country with very low population density” Wrong!
- Kye 5y ago25 people per square kilometer is a low population density. Look at how they define urban area.
- mannerheim 5y agoThat's not an accurate figure for the density where a typical Swede lives. Most of the population lives in the southern part of the country, a quarter of the population lives in the Stockholm metro area as well. It's like using Canadian population density with the whole country when almost the entire population lives within a hundred miles of the US border.
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- dmitriid 5y ago> quarter of the population lives in the Stockholm metro area You've never been to Stockholm metro area. It's very sparsely populated compared to many big metro areas. Stockholm is a small city (800k people or so) surrounded by villages (another 1.5 million people) spread over 6,519.3 km2. Density is 360/km2 And that's the biggest city in the country. In comparison, Paris (as we were talking about France): 13 mln people over 18,940.7 km2 with a density of 690/km2. That's for metro area. Urban area alone is 10 mln people with density of 21,000/km2
- supperburg 5y agoBut when you look at the average distance between two random people who live in the same town/city it would probably indicate that lack of contact doesn’t explain any success they’ve had with their numbers
- dmitriid 5y agoElsewhere people have already pointed this out: Swedes also have smaller families and a large proportion of people living alone, which (positively) contributed to numbers more than population density. Which is why Tegnell had the gall to blame immigrants for the spread of Covid-19. Immigrants live in more densely populated areas. And all this still doesn't explane a significantly larger mortality rate than immediate neighbors that have similar populations.
- mannerheim 5y agoI was in Stockholm last week. My point is that 25/km^2 is an absurd figure to use because northern Sweden has more reindeer than people.
- d_t_w 5y ago1. Not the main thrust of OPs point. 2. Sweden's population density is 200th on this list of 250 countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...