I was curious to know how Belgium’s population was distributed over the country. I’ve sliced the country in 10 zones, each with about 1 150 000 million inhabitants. The zones are ranked by municipal population density. The top 10% densest municipalities are all within Brussels. The bottom 10% are found all over the country, in all 10 provinces, but mostly south of Sambre & Meuse.
I guess the benefit of this map over a regular population density map is that you can read off percentiles more easily? I can’t think of anything else. In that case, wouldn’t it make more sense to make the legend cummulative? I think a lot more people would be interested in how much area the top 30% densest places cover, not the bracket 20%-30% densest.
Also your title could be a bit more clear and catchy (without needing to turn to clickbait :p).
So that’s why I’m always in a traffic jam…
There must be way easier ways to represent how densely polulated certain areas are.
Technically you need to specify in the title and the legend that you’re talking about municipalities. E.g. the municipalities of Ghent and Antwerp have huge ports, with almost no people living there. So if you were to divide the map by neighbourhood instead of municipality, the result would be even more extreme. On the other hand, if you were to divide the map by province, the result would be less extreme.
So specifically, 10% of Belgium lives in municipalities covering 44% of the country.
Most people don’t live in the middle of nowhere and they live in cities, more news at 10! You can clearly see where Brussels, Liège, Charleroi, Antwerp, and Ghent is.
Sinon on parle français en Belgique il y a pas qqn qui sait m’expliquer ce que veut dire ce graphique éclaté ?
Okay now include Dutch tourists.
r/PeopleLiveInCities
Mhh would be easier to understand if you said, “concentration of people living in belgium” and then go on to say that 44% of the country is inhibited by only 10% of all belgians. (Sounds better)
Brussels looks like a butthole ngl
Here´s a question: what would be the smallest circle you could draw that captures half of Belgiums population, and where would it be drawn?
Can we not make a gigantic wildlife and national park in the south of Belgium.? Something of the scale of US parks. That would be epic for us. We can also then charge the shit out of rest of europe who wants to access it!
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I was curious to know how Belgium’s population was distributed over the country. I’ve sliced the country in 10 zones, each with about 1 150 000 million inhabitants. The zones are ranked by municipal population density. The top 10% densest municipalities are all within Brussels. The bottom 10% are found all over the country, in all 10 provinces, but mostly south of Sambre & Meuse.
[Alternative color scheme with some more contrast](https://i.imgur.com/99GbY5J.png)
I guess the benefit of this map over a regular population density map is that you can read off percentiles more easily? I can’t think of anything else. In that case, wouldn’t it make more sense to make the legend cummulative? I think a lot more people would be interested in how much area the top 30% densest places cover, not the bracket 20%-30% densest.
Also your title could be a bit more clear and catchy (without needing to turn to clickbait :p).
So that’s why I’m always in a traffic jam…
There must be way easier ways to represent how densely polulated certain areas are.
Technically you need to specify in the title and the legend that you’re talking about municipalities. E.g. the municipalities of Ghent and Antwerp have huge ports, with almost no people living there. So if you were to divide the map by neighbourhood instead of municipality, the result would be even more extreme. On the other hand, if you were to divide the map by province, the result would be less extreme.
So specifically, 10% of Belgium lives in municipalities covering 44% of the country.
Most people don’t live in the middle of nowhere and they live in cities, more news at 10! You can clearly see where Brussels, Liège, Charleroi, Antwerp, and Ghent is.
Sinon on parle français en Belgique il y a pas qqn qui sait m’expliquer ce que veut dire ce graphique éclaté ?
Okay now include Dutch tourists.
r/PeopleLiveInCities
Mhh would be easier to understand if you said, “concentration of people living in belgium” and then go on to say that 44% of the country is inhibited by only 10% of all belgians. (Sounds better)
Brussels looks like a butthole ngl
Here´s a question: what would be the smallest circle you could draw that captures half of Belgiums population, and where would it be drawn?
Can we not make a gigantic wildlife and national park in the south of Belgium.? Something of the scale of US parks. That would be epic for us. We can also then charge the shit out of rest of europe who wants to access it!
r/peopleliveincities
20/80 rule
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The rest is camping.