{
  "study": {
    "slug": "population-density-in-eu-regions",
    "title": "Brussels Is 2,200 Times More Crowded Than Northern Sweden",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/population-density-in-eu-regions"
  },
  "table": 1,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Regional population density, 2024",
  "valueHeading": "inhabitants per km²",
  "selection": "Three highest and three lowest of the 242 EU NUTS 2 regions, with the EU average for reference.",
  "decimals": 1,
  "referenceLabel": "EU average",
  "note": "The scale here spans more than three orders of magnitude, so the dots show rank and the numbers carry the magnitude. Brussels is roughly 2,200 times Övre Norrland.",
  "derived": [
    "gap_to_reference"
  ],
  "flags": "source_flag carries the publisher's own status letters on the cell: p provisional, e estimated, b break in time series, d definition differs, u low reliability, i imputed",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Eurostat",
    "dataset": "Population density by NUTS 3 region",
    "code": "demo_r_d3dens",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "unit": "PER_KM2",
      "time": "2024"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-08-11",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-02-25",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/demo_r_d3dens",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/demo_r_d3dens/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "licence": {
    "analysis": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "statistics": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright"
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Bruxelles-Capitale (BE)",
      "value": 7827.4,
      "gap_to_reference": 7717.7,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Ciudad de Melilla (ES)",
      "value": 6180.4,
      "gap_to_reference": 6070.7,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Wien (AT)",
      "value": 5093.5,
      "gap_to_reference": 4983.8,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": null,
      "name": "European Union",
      "value": 109.7,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": true,
      "source_flag": "ep"
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Mellersta Norrland (SE)",
      "value": 5.3,
      "gap_to_reference": -104.4,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Guyane (FR)",
      "value": 3.6,
      "gap_to_reference": -106.1,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Övre Norrland (SE)",
      "value": 3.5,
      "gap_to_reference": -106.2,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    }
  ]
}