What does the photo proves?
That the DR is six times bigger than Puerto Rico, but Puerto Rico is almost twice as crowded.*
*
People here assume that the dark areas is due to black outs, when in fact the bulk of DR's population concentrates at high densities in roughly 15% of the territory.*
Compare a population density map of PR with one of DR, and you will notice two main things:
1. DR's population is much more heavily concentrated in a minor part of the territory while PR's population is much heavily spread out.*
2. The population density maps coincide with the electricity maps.
Can't expect wilderness areas with hardly a soul for kilometers on end to be as iluminated as an area that is essentially suburban.*
A much more shocking comparison is electricity maps of DR and Haiti. Haiti is much more densiy populated than the DR, has a territory only half the size of DR's, and a population that is nearly equal in size. If you look at a population density map of Haiti, you will notice that its similar to PR's in the sense that high density areas cover a much larger percentage of the territory than it does in DR. Yet, outside Port-au-Prince the country is practically dark, even in areas with population densities similar to DR's central Cibao region (which is quite bright at night).