The relationship between population density and per capita income was investigated for 117 nations with a population of more than one million persons. H1, the population explosion hypothesis, asserts that there is a negative relationship. H2, the population implosion hypothesis, asserts that there is a positive relationship. The data favor H2 rather than H1.
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