A single person living in a 25m^2 appartment would be quite cramped.
A family with two young kids living in 100m^2 is pretty spacious.
So if you look at living space per person, then societies with smaller household sizes will appear to have more living space per person.
so if you measure that, you also have to compare how many people are in households as well.
Another thing to consider when comparing countries is what is considered "living space" and what is not - some areas have large porches that are not considered "living space" even though they serve similar functions to what a living room might in other parts of the world.
depends on your perspective, I guess! that sounds horribly cramped to me.
In a 100m2 home: 3x15m2 bedrooms, 25m2 living room, 10m2 kitchen and you still got 20m2 left.
It's no comparison to a single 25m2 apartment where all these functions have to fit.
But it really depends on expectations. When people who live in the city visit us, they say "woah, that's a big apartment". When people who live on the countryside visit us, they say "how can you live in this tiny space".
My comment really was about how talking about "area per person" is not a good metric, because how spacious an apartment feels does not scale linearly with household size.
I would argue very much the opposite!
- 1 person in 25m² (270 ft²) is comfortable enough in a city, and if your hobbies are small
- 4 people in 100m² (1076 ft²) can definitely be crampedThe 270 ft² space might have 100 ft² usable area, but the 1076 ft² could have 700 ft² usable.
It seems to depend on how common the common space, and the people occupying it, are.
Flatmates (and offspring) can have a low quotient of space utilization compatibility.