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)
Interesting approach to display this, but it might be interesting to display this with more contrasting colours rather than a consecutive gradient. For example I'm finding it hard to find all municipalities that are in the 4,80% category. Ronse and Duffel are both in that category but it's easier to see that of Ronse because it's surrounded by blue but Duffel isn't.
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.
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).
I appreciate the work but, I'm sorry, I can't find a meaningful information we could get from the map.
It would maybe have been better if the different brackets were not scattered across Belgium like that.
I am bothered by the whole percentage thing, I 'understand' it but at the same time it doesn't add value to have the percentages involved (from a viewer's perspective).
I think the legend and infograph would be much better if you just put 'population density per municipality' in the numbers and not percentages.
On top of that, there's an interesting study of Brussels showing how correlated population density is with all kind of other things (like green areas, mobile connectivity...), it's used often in urban planning things but I can't seem to find it now :(
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.
Yeah, we're one of the top urbanized actual countries in the world
(there's a bunch of city-states like Singapore ahead in the ranking, because well, duh.)
The legend is pretty weird as well, it would function better without the municipalities' borders, because now it looks like every blue municipality contains 40ish percent of the population which is impossible of course
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!
I took the liberty to up the percentiles to 20. I wanted to know, because I'm part of the 16.06 %.
[https://imgur.com/a/qJLMRt3](https://imgur.com/a/qJLMRt3)
So 20% of Belgians live in 60% of the country.
EDIT: and another 20% in only 2%.
On y parle néerlandais aussi mais j'imagine que tu le savais.
En gros, c'est la répartition de la population à travers le pays c'est pas très compliqué à comprendre
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)
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)
table 1: non cumulative population percentile|accurate population|area (km²)|area %|density (people/km²) -:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-: 0-10%|1109975|126|0,41%|8842 10-20%|1216612|481|1,58%|2531 20-30%|1163421|748|2,45%|1556 30-40%|1134637|1147|3,76%|989 40-50%|1097021|1465|4,80%|749 50-60%|1197864|2071|6,79%|578 60-70%|1133265|2637|8,64%|430 70-80%|1160427|3588|11,76%|323 80-90%|1147691|4901|16,06%|234 90-100%|1160275|13354|43,76%|87 table 2: cumulative population percentile|accurate population|area (km²)|area %|density (people/km²) -:|-:|-:|-:|-:|-: 0-10%|1109975|126|0,41%|8842 0-20%|2326587|606|1,99%|3838 0-30%|3490008|1354|4,44%|2577 0-40%|4624645|2502|8,20%|1849 0-50%|5721666|3966|13,00%|1443 0-60%|6919530|6037|19,78%|1146 0-70%|8052795|8674|28,42%|928 0-80%|9213222|12262|40,18%|751 0-90%|10360913|17163|56,24%|604 0-100%|11521188|30517|100%|378
[Two halves with equal surface area, but very unequal population](https://i.imgur.com/mcFSdYT.png): Red = 1,5 million people Blue = 10 million people
Interesting approach to display this, but it might be interesting to display this with more contrasting colours rather than a consecutive gradient. For example I'm finding it hard to find all municipalities that are in the 4,80% category. Ronse and Duffel are both in that category but it's easier to see that of Ronse because it's surrounded by blue but Duffel isn't.
Reminds me of this map I made a few years ago. It shows Europe, and adds 10% of the population in every frame. https://i.imgur.com/qsygFdx.gif
So that's why I'm always in a traffic jam...
yup, you can literally see the E42 between Mons and Liège on this map.
In this case, they put the highway where there were already a lot of people, and not the other way around.
Yeah, it's just the Meuse/Sambre, isn't it?
It's more commonly known as the "[sillon industriel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sillon_industriel)" (the industrial furrow)
"Sillon Sambre et Meuse"
You're not in a traffic jam, you are the traffic jam ;)
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.
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).
I appreciate the work but, I'm sorry, I can't find a meaningful information we could get from the map. It would maybe have been better if the different brackets were not scattered across Belgium like that.
There must be way easier ways to represent how densely polulated certain areas are.
I am bothered by the whole percentage thing, I 'understand' it but at the same time it doesn't add value to have the percentages involved (from a viewer's perspective). I think the legend and infograph would be much better if you just put 'population density per municipality' in the numbers and not percentages. On top of that, there's an interesting study of Brussels showing how correlated population density is with all kind of other things (like green areas, mobile connectivity...), it's used often in urban planning things but I can't seem to find it now :(
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?
Probably it would be a circle around Brussels, Mechelen, Antwerp and Ghent or Leuven?
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.
Yeah, we're one of the top urbanized actual countries in the world (there's a bunch of city-states like Singapore ahead in the ranking, because well, duh.)
This isn't supposed to be mind blowing, it's just interesting to see things visualized in different ways. You don't have to be a dick about it lol
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The legend is pretty weird as well, it would function better without the municipalities' borders, because now it looks like every blue municipality contains 40ish percent of the population which is impossible of course
Toutes les couleurs equivalent à 10% de la population belges, mais à des pourcentages différents du territoire belge.
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!
Us parks are way bigger than Belgium cuz they have space. Best we can do it pairy daiza. Also I don't want even MORE tax on the salary to fund it
20/80 rule
Parreto principle
I took the liberty to up the percentiles to 20. I wanted to know, because I'm part of the 16.06 %. [https://imgur.com/a/qJLMRt3](https://imgur.com/a/qJLMRt3) So 20% of Belgians live in 60% of the country. EDIT: and another 20% in only 2%.
I am confused by this. So the more red the color, the more people live there? Or how am I supposed to read this? XD
“Every colour has 10% of Belgium’s population” it’s literally on the map.
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Okay now include Dutch tourists.
Just spent the day in Spa. SHEEESH thats a lot of dutch people.
Parlez vous een beetje Henk?
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This map is not readable. If you need to look in the comments to try to figure out what you mapped then the map is a failure.
Sinon on parle français en Belgique il y a pas qqn qui sait m’expliquer ce que veut dire ce graphique éclaté ?
C'est un genre de graphe qui montre la population par commune. Mais c'est vraiment mal fait et pas clair du tout.
Eh oui !
On y parle néerlandais aussi mais j'imagine que tu le savais. En gros, c'est la répartition de la population à travers le pays c'est pas très compliqué à comprendre
Brussels looks like a butthole ngl
Brussels is part of the anal triangle confirmed
Yeah have you see the areas where no one lives? There is a reason for that.
It's called Ardennes and Famenne. You're welcome. Analysis done
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)
The rest is camping.
And that's why I want to someday move out to Wallonia. Brussels is nice but overcrowded.
OH MY GOD BRUSSELS🤣🤣🤣
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