Trantor was described as having, what, 40 billion people? This would allow most of the planet to still be wild, if people lived at population densities of curr

Trantor was described as having, what, 40 billion people? This would allow most of the planet to still be wild, if people lived at population densities of current cities. Asimov was a city boy who famously didn't like to travel. He didn't have experience with how unoccupied most of the world is.