Let's look at the five largest cities of Liechtenstein today.
Schaan
Vaduz
Triesen
Balzers
Eschen
All right, so, what exactly is the population of Schaan, our largest city in Liechtenstein?
It happens to be 5,847.
Now, what if we use the rank size rule on this population, what are we going to get? Well, we're going to get predictions of the populations of the next few cities or so.
Funny thing, the first time I did this, I did it all on Notepad, because, well, I didn't really want to have a bunch of windows (which is about three) open (because two is better) and, well, I got the Blue Screen of Death and Notepad doesn't save any information!
Save information often!
So, let's get down to the predicting.
And in this second column, the actual populations, eh!
Vaduz 2924 5183
Triesen 1949 4752
Balzers 1462 4545
Eschen 1170 4389
Well, it doesn't look like the Rank Size Rule is working. The formula, by the way, works like this:
City Population = (Highest Population/City's Rank)
So why not work? It looks like a fantastic equation!
Then again, we're people, and our desire to influence magnetic fluxity of the biogenetic unicycle can't really be measured in an equation.
But the population for Eschen was practically 3000 people off! We pretty much lost about three thousand people! In terms of the world, that's not much, but in terms of Liechtenstein, it's a whole bunch.
The Rank Size Rule, clearly not working in the case of Liechtenstein, has no real legitimacy when the population is extremely low. Considering how advanced this country is, it makes perfect sense for people to move to Liechtenstein or stay there when residing in that country. The population for each city, then, would remain fairly high -- the rank size rule, dividing the greatest population by a city's rank, would not make too much sense as Vaduz is basically half of Schaan's population -- and Vaduz is an important center of life in Liechtenstein.
Schaan
Vaduz
Triesen
Balzers
Eschen
All right, so, what exactly is the population of Schaan, our largest city in Liechtenstein?
It happens to be 5,847.
Now, what if we use the rank size rule on this population, what are we going to get? Well, we're going to get predictions of the populations of the next few cities or so.
Funny thing, the first time I did this, I did it all on Notepad, because, well, I didn't really want to have a bunch of windows (which is about three) open (because two is better) and, well, I got the Blue Screen of Death and Notepad doesn't save any information!
Save information often!
So, let's get down to the predicting.
And in this second column, the actual populations, eh!
Vaduz 2924 5183
Triesen 1949 4752
Balzers 1462 4545
Eschen 1170 4389
Well, it doesn't look like the Rank Size Rule is working. The formula, by the way, works like this:
City Population = (Highest Population/City's Rank)
So why not work? It looks like a fantastic equation!
Then again, we're people, and our desire to influence magnetic fluxity of the biogenetic unicycle can't really be measured in an equation.
But the population for Eschen was practically 3000 people off! We pretty much lost about three thousand people! In terms of the world, that's not much, but in terms of Liechtenstein, it's a whole bunch.
The Rank Size Rule, clearly not working in the case of Liechtenstein, has no real legitimacy when the population is extremely low. Considering how advanced this country is, it makes perfect sense for people to move to Liechtenstein or stay there when residing in that country. The population for each city, then, would remain fairly high -- the rank size rule, dividing the greatest population by a city's rank, would not make too much sense as Vaduz is basically half of Schaan's population -- and Vaduz is an important center of life in Liechtenstein.
Liechtenstein's total population happens to be 36,600 people.
Her population density is [DATA EXPUNGED]. One does not SIMPLY ask for the density of a lady! But it just happens to be 226 people per square kilometer.
Her urban population is 15% of her entire population.
Her urban population living in the slums is currently unknown at this time.
The average percent change of her population becoming urban is 0.5%
No information is currently known about the percent of the population with sanitation or improved water supply.
The pupil-teacher ratio is 8.72.
Her population density is [DATA EXPUNGED]. One does not SIMPLY ask for the density of a lady! But it just happens to be 226 people per square kilometer.
Her urban population is 15% of her entire population.
Her urban population living in the slums is currently unknown at this time.
The average percent change of her population becoming urban is 0.5%
No information is currently known about the percent of the population with sanitation or improved water supply.
The pupil-teacher ratio is 8.72.