POPULATION DISTRIBUTION AND CHANGE
CHAPTER 02 POPULATION DISTRIBUTION AND CHANGE POPULATION DISTRIBUTION World distribution of population in term of continents and countries, the world’s population is very ill-balanced. More than half of the world’s people live in Asia (excluding the former USSR) which accounts for only one-fifth of the world’s land area, while north, central and south America together, occupy more than a quarter of the land surface, have only one-seventh of population the African continent also accounts for a quarter of land surface but has just over one-tenth of world population. On the other hand, Europe, whose area is only one twenty-fifth of the total, has about one-ninth of the world’s population. The inhabited area of the world’s land surface is called “ ecumen” and uninhabited or sparsely populated areas are referred to as “non-ecumen”. Definition of the term Population distribution (based on the comparison): (a) Is the way in which people are spread over the space or an a