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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Main Authors:	Xia, Boer, Halstead, Imogen, Utz, Robert
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	POPULATION DISTRIBUTION POPULATION DISPERSION REMOTENESS PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES POPULATION SPARSITY
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

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spelling	okr-10986-334282022-09-20T00:12:57Z New Set of Indicators to Measure Population Remoteness and Dispersion : Estimates for 100 Countries, with Detailed Analysis of Pacific Island Countries Xia, Boer Halstead, Imogen Utz, Robert POPULATION DISTRIBUTION POPULATION DISPERSION REMOTENESS PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES POPULATION SPARSITY 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. 2020-03-12T16:04:23Z 2020-03-12T16:04:23Z 2020-03 Working Paper 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 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9179 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper East Asia and Pacific Oceania
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spellingShingle	POPULATION DISTRIBUTION POPULATION DISPERSION REMOTENESS PACIFIC ISLAND COUNTRIES POPULATION SPARSITY Xia, Boer Halstead, Imogen Utz, Robert New Set of Indicators to Measure Population Remoteness and Dispersion : Estimates for 100 Countries, with Detailed Analysis of Pacific Island Countries
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description	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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author	Xia, Boer Halstead, Imogen Utz, Robert
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title	New Set of Indicators to Measure Population Remoteness and Dispersion : Estimates for 100 Countries, with Detailed Analysis of Pacific Island Countries
title_short	New Set of Indicators to Measure Population Remoteness and Dispersion : Estimates for 100 Countries, with Detailed Analysis of Pacific Island Countries
title_full	New Set of Indicators to Measure Population Remoteness and Dispersion : Estimates for 100 Countries, with Detailed Analysis of Pacific Island Countries
title_fullStr	New Set of Indicators to Measure Population Remoteness and Dispersion : Estimates for 100 Countries, with Detailed Analysis of Pacific Island Countries
title_full_unstemmed	New Set of Indicators to Measure Population Remoteness and Dispersion : Estimates for 100 Countries, with Detailed Analysis of Pacific Island Countries
title_sort	new set of indicators to measure population remoteness and dispersion : estimates for 100 countries, with detailed analysis of pacific island countries
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	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
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New Set of Indicators to Measure Population Remoteness and Dispersion : Estimates for 100 Countries, with Detailed Analysis of Pacific Island Countries

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