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Distribution Of World’S Population

DISTRIBUTION OF WORLD’S POPULATION

(CONTINENT WISE)

1. ASIA CONTINENT: Asia supports over half the population of the World. In the year 1998, the total world population was 5771 million about of this 3501 millions was in Asia alone, i.e.; 57% of the world’s population; There ‘is great unevenness of population distribution in Asia,’ in spite of the great size of population. There are areas like Sinkiang,’ Tibet and Himalayas where due to irregular relief,. low density of population is found. In Iran and Arabia, on the western side of Asia, only a few people live due .to aridity but where water has been arranged, people live in large numbers..
High density areas are few in number, the most, important ones being, Japan, Central Java in Indonesia, Eastern China, Bangladesh. Indo Gangetic plain, Karalla and other coastal plains of India.

2. EUROPE: The continent of Europe has the highest average density of population in the world, Europe, excluding R.F, Comprises less’ than four percent (4%) of the total world’s Land area, Europe, exclusive of R.F. has a total population of 7.28 millions, about 12% of the world’s total population. The pattern of population distribution in Europe is more uniform than else where in the world.
The average density of population is 200 persons per square km. The distribution of population ‘is very uneven . The four countries Germany, the UK, Italy and France are the most populous in Europe, having density of more than 280 persons per sq; km.
On accounts of irregular relief and lower birth rate, very ‘extreme’. climate in the northern part of the continent, and the eastern part is unfertile, so the density of population in those two areas is very sparse.
The mountain regions of Iceland, the. Highlands of Scotland, the largest Scandinavian mountains, the North land of Sweden; the North eastern part ‘of Finland, the boreal forest and Tundra along the shores of the Arctic Ocean are almost uninhabited. ,
The population is mostly...