WS MoreOrLess: How Many is Too Many Bananas?
More or Less
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4.6 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2015
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Too dense Is population density the right measure to be looking at when working out how many refugees countries should take- and if not what is? How many bananas will kill you? There’s a belief among some people that too many bananas will kill you. Eat too many and you will overdose on potassium and die. But how many bananas would you need to eat?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the short edition of Morales, first broadcast on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:06.0 | Thank you for downloading from the BBC. |
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| 0:18.0 | Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World. |
| 0:21.0 | We are your weekly guide to the numbers in the news and in life. |
| 0:25.0 | And I'm Tim Halfard. |
| 0:27.0 | The subject of migrants coming to the European Union and refugees in particular |
| 0:32.0 | is one we've approached a couple of times recently. |
| 0:35.0 | The number of migrants each country in the EU should take has been a hot topic across the continent |
| 0:41.0 | and several loyal listeners have been in touch with us to talk about population density. |
| 0:46.0 | Here's what Granville Davis wrote. |
| 0:48.0 | In this game of I'm nicer than you because I've taken in more migrants |
| 0:52.0 | I wonder if the right numbers are being looked at. |
| 0:55.0 | It seems to me that a more revealing approach is to consider population density. |
| 0:59.0 | For example, I believe that France has a third of the population density of the UK |
| 1:04.0 | thus can be expected to absorb more migrant numbers than the UK. |
| 1:08.0 | Any thoughts? |
| 1:09.0 | The population density of a country is simply its population divided by its land area. |
| 1:14.0 | The small of the country is on the map and the more people live there, the higher the population density. |
| 1:20.0 | The EU's population density is 116 people per square kilometre, |
| 1:25.0 | which in case you're wondering is enough space for each person to have a square of land |
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