...the population densities around the world?

While Asia's population growth rate is lower than those of Latin America and Africa, the vast continent has three fifths of the worlds people and thus adds more people to world population than any other continent.

Population density is also greatest in Asia, with more than 282 persons per square mile.

This compares with 60 persons per square mile in Latin America and the Caribbean, 62 persons per square mile in Africa, and 73 persons per square mile in the United States.

Comparisons of population density can be misleading, however, since the natural resources on which human life depends, fresh water, farmland and forests, for example, are unevenly distributed across islands and continents.

Source: Population Action International and the relevant contributors.