Does High Population Density Catalyze the Spread of COVID-19?

Žmuk Berislav () and Jošić Hrvoje ()
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Žmuk Berislav: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics & Business, Trg J. F. Kennedyja 6, HR-10000Zagreb, Croatia
Jošić Hrvoje: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics & Business, Trg J. F. Kennedyja 6, HR-10000Zagreb, Croatia

Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business, 2020, vol. 23, issue s1, 13-27

Abstract: COVID-19 represents not only public health emergency but has become a global economic problem. It has affected all economic sectors threatening global poverty. The important question that arises is what catalyses the spread of the disease? In this paper the relationship between population density and spread of COVID-19 is observed which is goal of the paper. For the purpose of the analysis the correlation between the population variables and COVID-19 variables on a global country level (209 countries) and regional level of individual countries with the most cases of infection is observed. The results have shown that on a country level variable population is statistically significant in all regression models for total cases, deaths and total tests variables whereas variable population density was not. The research results from this paper can be important and relevant for economic and health policy makers to guide COVID-19 surveillance and public health decision-making.

Keywords: Population density; spread of the disease; COVID-19; World; Croatia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I19 J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.2478/zireb-2020-0020

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