JGeropoulas
The Living Force
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.
Countries like Canada or Russia – which have giant land masses but small relative populations – appear much smaller on this kind of map. Meanwhile, a country like Bangladesh grows much bigger, because it has a large population living within a smaller area. (I learned this new fact: Nigeria is expected to have the world's largest city of 88 million residents by 2100.)
Various continental regions are enlarged below the map to provide a sense of what can be learned from a population cartogram done in this fashion.
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/massive-world-map-redrawn-based-country-populations/
In total there are 15,266 squares, representing all 7.633 billion people on the planet.
Countries like Canada or Russia – which have giant land masses but small relative populations – appear much smaller on this kind of map. Meanwhile, a country like Bangladesh grows much bigger, because it has a large population living within a smaller area. (I learned this new fact: Nigeria is expected to have the world's largest city of 88 million residents by 2100.)
Various continental regions are enlarged below the map to provide a sense of what can be learned from a population cartogram done in this fashion.
http://www.visualcapitalist.com/massive-world-map-redrawn-based-country-populations/
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