Because of how human populations are presently distributed, comparing population densities of two countries is really mostly comparing how much of each country's land is in truly depopulated swathes. Unless the countries you're comparing are, like, city-states, or oppositely they both lack urbanization, population density tells you very little about density as actually experienced by the inhabitants.
Think of average class size vs. median class at a university. The majority of students' class experiences are class sizes are smaller than average. The average is dominated by the rare classes which are huge.
Likewise, the vast majority (80%+) of Canadians and Finns live in cities or suburbs. These places are far denser than the national average, and occupy tiny portions of the total land area, in both countries. So to that 80% of the population, the density they live in is nothing like the national average.
I recall some figure that 90% of the Canadian population lives in a thin band extending a few hundred miles north of the US border. So average population density is very misleading.
The stat is that 90% of Canadians live within 150 miles of the us border.
Over half of all Canadians live at a lattitude south of Seattle.
Most of Canada's population live in the small area between Toronto and Montreal.
What I'm saying is that population density using Canada as a whole is a dumb statistic. Where there's people in Canada, there's lots of them, and most of the land area is literally uninhabitable by almost any standard.
Think of average class size vs. median class at a university. The majority of students' class experiences are class sizes are smaller than average. The average is dominated by the rare classes which are huge.
Likewise, the vast majority (80%+) of Canadians and Finns live in cities or suburbs. These places are far denser than the national average, and occupy tiny portions of the total land area, in both countries. So to that 80% of the population, the density they live in is nothing like the national average.
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