Table 2.

Population, land area, and population density in each combination of latitudinal and elevational zones, and marginal distributions

	S temperate	S tropical	N tropical	N temperate	All latitudes
Population, 109
≤500 m elevation	0.0853	0.2943	1.0684	2.6921	4.1400
>500 m, ≤1500 m	0.0463	0.1591	0.2728	0.6098	1.0881
>1500 m	0.0123	0.0627	0.1364	0.1780	0.3894
All elevations	0.1439	0.5161	1.4777	3.4799	5.6175
Area, km2
≤500 m elevation	6,966,040	14,025,518	16,463,223	38,256,874	75,711,655
>500 m, ≤1500 m	3,500,417	8,283,784	7,463,315	24,709,168	43,956,684
>1500 m	605,930	1,819,037	1,792,296	8,360,332	12,577,595
All elevations	11,072,387	24,128,339	25,718,834	71,326,374	132,245,934
Density, people/km2
≤500 m elevation	12.2451	20.9832	64.8962	70.3691	54.6811
>500 m, ≤1500 m	13.2270	19.2062	36.5521	24.6791	24.7539
>1500 m	20.2994	34.4688	76.1035	21.2910	30.9598
All elevations	12.9963	21.3898	57.4559	48.7884	42.4777

Example: 1.07 × 10⁹ people live on 16.5 × 10⁶ km² of land at elevations ≤500 m in N tropical latitudes, with an average population density of 65 people/km².