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Take the 3 million square miles of USA supporting 330 million people, and add 1 billion more people to it. That's India. They have a population crisis which t
by snacktaster 4y ago
Take the 3 million square miles of USA supporting 330 million people, and add 1 billion more people to it. That's India. They have a population crisis which their land area can't support.
- reubenswartz 4y agoExcept India is ~1.3M square miles...
- Someone 4y agoThe USA (including Alaska) has about 3 times the land area of India, so India has about 4 times the population on 1/3 the land, or 12 times the population density, but I don’t think even that implies India cannot support its own population. Their GDP per capita is about 1/30th of that of the USA, or about 2/5 of that of the USA per km², and I think that’s a better way to approximate land needed than raw population size.
- snacktaster 4y agoNobody includes Alaska in these calculations because 80% of it us uninhabitable. I was only talking about the lower-48.
- Someone 4y agoEven that part is about twice the area of India.
- nashashmi 4y agoUSA has the kinds of land that cannot support so many people. This is not the issue with India. Their land is abundant in food and shelter resources, the only elements required for thriving societies.