The World Map According to Population

A fascinating cartogram reimagines the world map by reshaping countries according to their populations rather than geography. By turning data into visual form, it offers a striking perspective on where people truly live across the planet.

A typical world map shows us the basic geography of countries and continents, but it doesn’t give any indication of where people actually live! To get around the challenges of relying on the standard world map, Roser instead has made a population cartogram based on 2018 population figures. A cartogram is a visualization in which statistical information is shown in diagrammatic form. In this case, it’s a population cartogram, where each square in the map represents 500,000 people in a country’s population. In total there are 15,266 squares, representing all 7.633 billion people on the planet.
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