Talk:List of islands by population density

This is brief information by manual code entering. I will be expand when I get HTML to Wiki converter and WYSIWYG editor, especially tables, automatics calculator...etc. RushdimIDlike (talk) 21:38, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Bermuda is at the top of the most densely populated territories in the world but doesn't appear on this list, presumably because there is no readily accessible data about the relative populations of the constituent islands. Using a number of sources - constituency maps on elections.gov.bm, rough areas of islands, and census data, I came up with rough population densities per km2 as follows for Bermuda - Somerset 1636, Main Island 1286, Ordinance 1102, St Davids 781. I stress that these are not accurate, but it does suggest that these islands ought to feature in this list.Jps1981 (talk) 13:28, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

How about Salsette Island to this list? Don't how to edit these lists. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.141.124.158 (talk) 16:22, 19 August 2009 (UTC) Java should make this list! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.43.158.60 (talk) 14:19, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

The population of Santa Cruz del Islote is somewhat exaggerated. Its article says 1200 which is 47 less than in here. But a link from the article brings a source from 2009 (2 years newer than year on the list), which says 'population of around 700 people, which can rise to 1200 when the children who attend secondary school on the mainland visit their families'. So it will drop down to number two on the list. The second island is harder to examine, too much links, might be right or wrong. 85.217.39.249 (talk) 18:31, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
 * And Migingo Island article states its population to be 131 (from year 2009), so it would drop four places (density 32750). 82.141.95.131 (talk) 03:25, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Are there citations of the population of both Migingo and Santa Cruz del Islote? Khdamayo (talk) 18:10, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

What about Vypin/Vypeen Islands in Kochi, India. This is supposedly the most densely populated Island in the World. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.150.192.237 (talk) 17:03, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

It is difficult to figure out this table: There are thousands of islands in some countries; some of them (if not many) may be densely populated. --- &#9993; Hello World! 05:48, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Hei Ling Chau, an island in Hong Kong, has no permanent population, but it contains 2 correctional institutes and an drug addiction treatment centre (all of them would contain about 1,500 people), thus making the island qualified to be listed. -- &#9993; Hello World! 05:54, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

Hiroshima
Hiroshima is a city built in the Ota River delta, and several of its islands may be suitable for inclusion in this list. For example, Naka Ward, which is situated entirely on islands, has a population density of 8,162 people per kilometer squared. However, I don't know the names of the islands themselves. Of course, now that I think about it, pretty much every major coastal city in Japan has some very densely populated islands. 98.243.5.213 (talk) 01:03, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The names of the islands can be found using tools such as Google Earth. However, for their population, you need census data or something derived from it. --  Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 15:34, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Proposal to split the list into categories
It crossed my mind that some people come to this article expecting to find where large islands such as Great Britain stand on the list. (Great Britain is nowhere near the top of the list.) With that in mind, I propose splitting the list into categories of islands, that is, large, medium, and small. Those are just the guidelines I am proposing in order to set the thresholds between the three categories. I am not at a point where I'm proposing to set the thresholds themselves, but I'm waiting for feedback. Any ideas?
 * The large category would roughly include islands large enough to be self-sustaining, that is, large enough to contain at least two major cities that can't be reasonably defined as part of the same metro area, and the surrounding countryside. For example, Great Britain.
 * The medium category would roughly include islands that make up all of or a significant portion of a city's metro area, but do not extend very far beyond that. For example, Long Island.
 * The small category would include islands that are entirely within the same metro area but do not make up a significant portion of it. For example, Roosevelt Island.

Finally, we have to keep in mind that a tiny islet separated from the mainland by a natural moat, and with a single condo tower occupying most of its land area, does qualify for the list as it stands now, yet I don't believe people will be interested to learn about those, and the data is next to impossible to find anyway. So I propose including only islands that have a population of at least 1,000. --  Blanchardb -Me•MyEars•MyMouth- timed 15:34, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

I agree with the proposal - this could be easily done if the list could be re-ordered according to different columns that would include: country, metropolitan area, etc and could allow to also re-order by size, density etc. This is available in several Wikipedia list (see Wikipedia List of cities by population density). One of the issue for the very small island, for example Santa Cruz del Islote, small variation on the Island size or the population size lead to very large variations on the resulting density. Currently the Wikepedia article about the Island is reported as the Island area as 0.12 km2 but in the list it is reported as 0.012 km2 - that change the density by 10. I measured the island on MyMap which is rather a rough approximation of the actual area and I found 0.015 km2 a 0.003 difference in area result and the density  is also changing by -25%. Similarly that island does not seems to have an official census - the same Wikipedia article mention 90 houses, that 14 people by house - difficult to believe... It would be good to have reliable sources. --202.155.194.46 (talk) 15:54, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

Lagos Island?
Lagos island has a population in the hundreds of thousands and it is not on this list — Preceding unsigned comment added by FootyStavros (talk • contribs) 17:28, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Added. Also I removed the ranking column. -Koppapa (talk) 16:20, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

Aspøy, Ålesund, Norway
Aspøy and other islands of Ålesund, and also other Norwegian islands (as Kirklandet, Kristiansund) are omitted from this list. Whereas Sweden, as usual, is very well represented. This list has nothing to do with reality, and should eighter be updated or removed. --2A02:2121:2C1:88ED:F4F8:204F:62E8:24AA (talk) 04:43, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Agreed - it has a population density of 5,627 people per square kilometer. TurkeyCookTime (talk) 22:15, 10 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Added Aspoy, Norvoya and Kirklandet Khdamayo (talk) 15:20, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

Caye Sable
Caye Sable at 250 people per 0.16 hectares may have the highest density for islands.

Talk to G Moore 18:28, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

Verification of population numbers?
There are many islands here that seem to have crazy population numbers that are pulled out of thin air, specifically, Shibaura Island, any of the Thousand Islands in Indonesia, and basically any other island that doesn't have its own article. Most of them don't have any references, and I have not been able to find a place where their populations are listed. Where do these numbers come from? For Shibaura Island especially, the population and area numbers shown here should give it a density of 100,000, not the seemingly random 76,923 given in the article. TurkeyCookTime (talk) 04:55, 21 November 2023 (UTC)

Multiple errors
Under the population column there appears to be some unformatted text such as "784|km2|sqmi|disp=table|sortable=on}}" ArchangelGabriel0723 (talk) 06:48, 21 June 2024 (UTC)