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More people live there than in the rest of the world combined. It does it in another way though, by contrasting inside the circle vs outside. More People Live Within This Circle Than Out Of Itīack to comparing the entire population on Earth, this one we also shared previously compares only 2 equal ones instead of the 4 equal ones in today’s new map above. We posted an article about this before, but we wanted to share it again because it is related to today’s map about how unevenly-spreaded we are. By specifically carving out parts of countries that are especially dense (or not dense), it’s an even more striking difference in population. Each colored zone has the exact same population. On this map, you’ll notice two colors: blue and red. Like the map above, here are some other maps I’ve shared in the past that show just how wild this planet is population-wise. I always love to share the most interesting things that I find on the internet about the world and travel. 50% live in the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Northern Asia.50% of the world’s population lives just in Southern/Eastern Asia and Oceania.Oceania/China/Part of Southeast Asia = 1.9 Billion PeopleĪs you can see, some areas of the planet are a lot denser than others:.South Asia/Part of Southeast Asia = 1.9 Billion People.Europe/East Africa/Middle East/Northern & Central Asia = 1.9 Billion People.North, South & Central America/North, West & Central Africa = 1.9 Billion People.Specifically, this world map divides the population into these 4 regions: Therefore, 25% percent of the current population actually lives in each colored section of the map-crazy, right?Īnd this map doesn’t even show the most extreme version of this disparity, because all 4 zones are contiguous and keep all countries in their entirety. We think of the what and where, yet rarely the who.Ībove is a map that separates our nearly 8 billion humans into four equal sections of the world (from u/OrneryThroat on Reddit). And, sometimes most importantly for us travelers, maps help us find attractions, bars, restaurants, cafés, and events going on in the places we visit. They help us get from point A to point B. Maps show us international and political borders, geological landmarks, and continental masses. When we look at a map of the world, we don’t think much about the population. See how huge the yellow section is compared to the red section? All of America (North, South, and Central) and almost all of Africa! The World split into 4 equal sections based on population (Photo credit: & Visual Capitalist) Here’s a map that shows what we all know: some places are much more densely-populated (but it’s still impressive to see how much of a difference there is). Here at Flytrippers, we love maps because as travelers, we’re extremely curious about the world we live in. And maps always show us land, but they never show us people. They can also be used to map other topics on top as choropleth maps, so that these topics can be understood from a people’s perspective.Did you know that nearly 8 billion people are living on this planet right now? That’s a lot of people, but there is a huge disparity in population density around the world -a huge disparity in how all these people are spread out. Gridded population cartograms help us better understand internal variation in the distribution of people within countries in their quantitative dimension. This results in more abstract shapes, but provides a more detailed and more precise picture of the topic mapped. The most significant obstacle to the realisation of gridded depictions of data such as population is the availability and reliability of data, especially in those parts of the world where regular censuses or other population counts are not conducted. Unlike conventional cartograms, this type of map does not rely on (arbitrary) administrative boundaries to be drawn, but uses a regularly distributed raster of equally sized grid cells as the basis for the cartogram transformation. This cartographic technique was developed by Benjamin Hennig building on Gastner/Newman’s density-equalising cartogram algorithm. A gridded population cartogram can be seen as being an equal-population projection where each area is proportional to the number of people living there. This map is a so-called gridded population cartogram.
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