Obviously the meaning of the standard deviation is its relation to the mean, No, not always. In the case of sizes of things or amounts of things (e.g. tonnage of coal, volume of money), that often makes sense, but in other contexts it doesn't make sense to compare to the mean.
Population of Maui County. Last official estimated population of Maui County was 154,982 (year 2014)[1]. This was 0.049% of total US population and 10.8% of total Hawaii state population. Area of Maui County is 2,398.3 miÂ² (=6211.7 kmÂ²), in this year population density was 64.62 p/miÂ². If population growth rate would be same as in period 2010-2014 (+0.02%/yr), Maui County population in 2017 would be 155,093 .
Currently the most active volcano is Kilauea on the Big Island, but the newest volcano is the Loihi Seamount, just to the southeast of Hawaii. Maui is the next largest island in size and the next in the chain. The islands quickly become smaller and smaller. Mauiâs area is only 727.2 square miles (1,883.4 sq. km).