The population of the world, allocated to 1 arcsecond blocks. This refines CIESIN’s Gridded Population of the World project, using machine learning models on high-resolution worldwide Digital Globe satellite imagery.

This dataset shows all 515 departments in Argentina, which correspond to second-level administrative divisions currently used in said country.

The Excel file includes filters for each column.

Column Description

• Department: Name of the department
• Capital: Capital city of the department
• Province: Province the department belongs to
• Map: Map of the department within the province it belongs to
• Population (2022): Population of the department as of 2022
• Area (squared km): Total land area of the department
• Population density (people per sq. km): Population per square kilometer

NOTES - Within the province of Buenos Aires, departments are not referred to as such, but as "partidos". - There are 135 partidos in the province of Buenos Aires, the other 380 second-level administrative divisions correspond to "departamentos" (departments) spread throughout the rest of the country. - The city of Buenos Aires is classified as "ciudad autónoma" (autonomous city), meaning that it is a separate department in itself.

In 2023, approximately 127.1 million people lived in Guangdong province in China. That same year, only about 3.65 million people lived in the sparsely populated highlands of Tibet. Regional differences in China China is the world’s most populous country, with an exceptional economic growth momentum. The country can be roughly divided into three regions: Western, Eastern, and Central China. Western China covers the most remote regions from the sea. It also has the highest proportion of minority population and the lowest levels of economic output. Eastern China, on the other hand, enjoys a high level of economic development and international corporations. Central China lags behind in comparison to the booming coastal regions. In order to accelerate the economic development of Western and Central Chinese regions, the PRC government has ramped up several incentive plans such as ‘Rise of Central China’ and ‘China Western Development’. Economic power of different provinces When observed individually, some provinces could stand an international comparison. Jiangxi province, for example, a medium-sized Chinese province, had a population size comparable to Argentina or Spain in 2023. That year, the GDP of Zhejiang, an eastern coastal province, even exceeded the economic output of the Netherlands. In terms of per capita annual income, the municipality of Shanghai reached a level close to that of the Czech Republik. Nevertheless, as shown by the Gini Index, China’s economic spur leaves millions of people in dust. Among the various kinds of economic inequality in China, regional or the so-called coast-inland disparity is one of the most significant. Posing as evidence for the rather large income gap in China, the poorest province Heilongjiang had a per capita income similar to that of Sri Lanka that year.