DREM updates Territory Statistics

The Regional Directorate of Statistics of Madeira (DREM) releases today on its website,  a set of tables with updated information regarding territory, namely data relating to areas, perimeters, and altimetry of the revised and updated version of the Official Administrative Map of Portugal, 2020 version - CAOP2020 whose responsibility in the Autonomous Region of Madeira belongs to the Regional Directorate for Spatial Planning (DROTe).

Information is also provided on the resident population at the civil parish level (provisional data from the 2021 Census), its population density, data on the territorial structure, extreme points, and major mountain systems.

In 2021, the population density in the Autonomous Region of Madeira stood at 313.0 inhabitants per km²

In 2021, the population density in the Autonomous Region of Madeira stood at 313.0 inhabitants per km², with the highest value in Funchal (1,388 inhabitants/km²) and the lowest in Porto Moniz (30.4 inhabitants/km²). By parish, this indicator reaches its highest value in S. Pedro (4 835.6 inhabitants/km²) and its lowest value in Ribeira da Janela (10.8 inhabitants/km²).

Compared to the other six NUTS II regions in Portugal, the Autonomous Region of Madeira has the second highest population density, only behind Metropolitan Area of Lisbon (952.1 inhabitants/km²). The Alentejo is the region with the lowest population density (22.3 inhabitants/km²), while the Autonomous Region of Azores has a population density of 101.8 inhabitants/km².

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