Hypsographic Demography

The Global Distribution of Human Population with Altitude

Joel E. Cohen and Christoper Small

Abstract

The Motivation for the Study

The Data

Global Population Data

Global Digital Elevation Model

A Regional Analysis

Southeast Asia

The Global Analysis

Bivariate Distributions of Population and Land Area

Marginal Distributions

Population Density versus Elevation

Future Research

Monitoring Effects of Population Growth

Amazon Delta

References