You should compare persons/km2 for each person really. E.g. median amount of people in a 10 km circle around each person or w/e. Having a lot of empty forest doesn't help much.
As soon as you described that statistic I realized that normalized population density is a really interesting fact about countries and states, and it isn't one I've seen laid out that way.
As soon as you described that statistic I realized that normalized population density is a really interesting fact about countries and states, and it isn't one I've seen laid out that way.