What conclusions might you draw from the following statistics? At about 1,000 people per square mile, the population densities of Haiti in the Caribbean and Burundi in Africa are virtually identical. Yet, Haiti’s gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is four times that of Burundi ($1,100 vs. $264). Still, both are among the very poorest nations in the world and, not coincidentally, they are among the least economically free. This compares to density in the United States of 87 people per square mile and a per capita GDP that is a whopping 60 times bigger than Haiti’s, at $63,600. The U.S. economy is the 25th freest in the world. Now, consider two of Europe’s so-called micro-states, tiny but sovereign countries that are considerably smaller in area than New York City. Monaco, for example, is less than a square mile in size but both its population density (approximately 20,000 per square …