Abstract
To diagnose a temporal stability of land use structure assumed in many papers represented by Matsumura and Nakamura (1999), characteristics of land use change in Asian countries facing a recent drastic change since 1970 s were discussed on the basis of inter annual survey on land use data. Description of statistical relationships between land use and several kinds of factor in the field of sociology, economy and nature was attempted. In India, the ratio of agricultural land use increased in proportion to a growth of population density, while in Taiwan, its ratio was decreasing in regions with high population density. There seemed to be a difference of economical developing stage and structure of food supply between these two groups of country. Population density as a driving force on land use change affairs both of positively and negatively depending on its range, as for the case study in Taiwan. This affection varies by stage. For the model-construction on land use change in Asian region, such temporal stability of land use structure should be carefully noticed.
