Examples of countries that are underpopulated and overpopulated relative to their size

[Tooting Carmen]

Underpopulated

Russia, Australia, DRC, Argentina, Brazil, USA, Canada, possibly Saudi Arabia.

Overpopulated

Indian Subcontinent countries, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Burundi, South Korea, Japan, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, possibly Hispaniola and Ecuador.

[Kess]

Peru is roughly 1.5 times larger than Turkey, but their population is not even half of Turkey. Add it to underpopulated.

[Kess]

What about China? They are definitely overpopulated like India, even though it’s the third largest country by land.

[Tooting Carmen]

What about China? They are definitely overpopulated like India, even though it’s the third largest country by land.

If the population were better-distributed throughout China, it would probably be about right. The problem is most people live along the Southeastern coast, whereas much of the North and West in particular are relatively empty.

[Incal]

Peru is roughly 1.5 times larger than Turkey, but their population is not even half of Turkey. Add it to underpopulated.

Didn't you stop to think that maybe Turkey is the overpopulated one?

[Tooting Carmen]

Peru is roughly 1.5 times larger than Turkey, but their population is not even half of Turkey. Add it to underpopulated.

On that same basis, it could be argued that Bolivia is underpopulated too - in area it is not much different to Colombia, yet has almost four times fewer people.

[Tooting Carmen]

N.B. In the case of the UK, while the country is certainly overpopulated as a whole, this is not really true of the three Celtic countries and nor the more rural parts of the North of England (North Yorkshire, Cumbria, Northumberland).

[Dušan]

[Tooting Carmen]

LOL at how UK and US-centric that first map is - dividing the US by its states and the UK by its nations, while treating all other countries as homogeneous wholes.

[Kess]

Didn't you stop to think that maybe Turkey is the overpopulated one?

True. It’s a bit overpopulated.