[IkmoIkmo]

This is a bit misleading. The urban population of sweden sits at 85%, the UK at 83%. Yes there's lots of space in Sweden, and it's also true that barely anyone lives there.

I'm still hoping some researcher will publish a dataset of 'median lived density', rather than a simple density average. That is to say, a weighted density calculation. In other words, if 100 people live in one building in a vast desert the size of Texas, their 'lived/experienced density' or 'weighted density' is far greater than if 100 people live spread out in an area the size of a few football fields. Then we could have a more sophisticated discussion around density, as this issue aaaalways pops up when doing comparisons at the national level. (at the city level it's not as big of a problem, although even there some weird zoning differences can sometimes throw figures off.)

[InfiniteRand]

You might be interested in this article about lived population density vs rate of spread of COVID-19. https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01167 Although I do not have enough statistical knowledge to really tell if the author's assessment is correct.

[IkmoIkmo]

thank you!

[hyko]

Yeah that’s a good point, it would be super useful to have that ‘weighted density’ available.