New Set of Indicators to Measure Population Remoteness and Dispersion : Estimates for 100 Countries, with Detailed Analysis of Pacific Island Countries
This paper defines three new indicators that capture the remoteness of local communities within a country context and the overall scale of population dispersion and settlement sparsity across a country. The paper also exploits the World Bank’s subn...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/140561583869719175/New-Set-of-Indicators-to-Measure-Population-Remoteness-and-Dispersion-Estimates-for-100-Countries-with-Detailed-Analysis-of-Pacific-Island-Countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33428 |
| Summary: | This paper defines three new indicators
that capture the remoteness of local communities within a
country context and the overall scale of population
dispersion and settlement sparsity across a country. The
paper also exploits the World Bank’s subnational geography
database to estimate the geographical scale of population
dispersion and dispersion-adjusted population sparsity for
100 countries around the world. The new indicators are
evaluated and explored for several Pacific Island countries,
which are often characterized as being remote (in a global
context) and highly dispersed. However, within each Pacific
Island country, there is enormous variation in the
remoteness of individual communities and the extent to which
communities are clustered or dispersed from one another, and
these conditions can be related to communities'
socioeconomic characteristics. The results reflect this. The
paper empirically contextualizes the settlement patterns
evident in the Pacific Island countries within a broader
global context, highlighting the extreme degree of
population sparsity in the Pacific, relative to all the
other countries that are assessed. |
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