Friday, August 16, 2013

Human Population Density and Emptiness


More than half the world’s population lives within a circle superimposed over a section of Asia.

The world population is now 7.1 billion. The countries in the circle, and their populations, are:

  • China: 1,349,585,838
  • India: 1,220,800,359
  • Indonesia: 251,160,124
  • Bangladesh: 163,654,860
  • Japan: 127,253,075
  • Philippines: 105,720,644
  • Vietnam: 92,477,857
  • Thailand: 67,448,120
  • Burma: 55,167,330
  • South Korea: 48,955,203
  • Nepal: 30,430,267
  • Malaysia: 29,628,392
  • North Korea: 24,720,407
  • Taiwan: 23,299,716
  • Sri Lanka: 21,675,648
  • Cambodia: 15,205,539
  • Laos: 6,695,166
  • Mongolia: 3,226,516
  • Bhutan: 725,296

The total population inside the circle, at top, is 3.638 billion, or roughly 51.4 percent of the world's population.
 
To put it another way, China now has a population of 1.35 billion people.

The map, below. divides the world into five areas that each have 1.35 billion people in them:

  • China
  • All of the Americas, western Europe and Australia together
  • All of Africa and the Middle East together
  • India and parts of the Indian subcontinent
  • The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and parts of western Asia together 


Of course, not every area of the world is evenly populated.

For example, in the map below, only 2% of the population lives in the yellow parts of Australia; 98% of the population of the countrty can be found in the white bits along the coast.

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2 comments:

mugwump said...

http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,1549966,00.html

PBurns said...

Nice.

I have written a lot about population on this blog in the past. A little more ahead ;)

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