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Australia is very large country with relatively few humans: only one continent (Antarctica) and one country (Mongolia) have lower population density.
by divbzero 4y ago
Australia is very large country with relatively few humans: only one continent (Antarctica) and one country (Mongolia) have lower population density.
- WeylandYutani 4y agoAnd almost everyone lives on the coast. Europe because of its vegetation and climate can sustain 500-1000 million people. Australia is a desert.
- skissane 4y agoThat most Australians live so close to the coast is not solely due to rainfall/etc. In many parts of the country, the fertile coastal strip extends hundreds of kilometres inland. I think much of it is due to social and political history - only six states, the population of each of which is dominated by its capital city, and all of those state capitals are on the coast. Quite unlike US states, where the biggest city and capital city are very often different. It might have turned out differently - what if New South Wales had moved the state capital away from Sydney, to somewhere like Bathurst or Orange or Dubbo? Or what if inland NSW (west of the Great Dividing Range) had been split into a separate state, with its own inland capital? Imagine this had happened 100 years ago - how different would Australia’s population distribution look today?
- gumby 4y agoAustralia is simultaneously one of the most urbanized countries, with most of the population living densely. Population is denser than some European countries like France or Germany, for example. The averaging over the total area is a misleading statistical anomaly, as it is with, say, Alaska or Russia.