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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