Global map showing only population density

[BootinUp]

Conrad Hackett :verified:
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This map shows only people. It is a beautiful illustration of where people are concentrated.

If you squint, you can see Australia and New Zealand.

Map by Alasdair Rae https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/3d-map
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[erronis]

1. That's a real eye opener. Lots of open space, and lots of people in very tight spaces.

I'm having a little difficulty figuring out "Visual Capitalist" mission. Almost looks like they are promoting exploitation of resources and (gasp) capitalism.

[underpants]

2. We use 60% of oil everyday.

I read that a few moths ago and was astonished. Checked it out. Yeah, we do.

[ProfessorGAC]

23. Number Is Too High

Per Worldometer, the US uses 20.3% of 97 million barrels of petroleum per day.
We've been around that same fraction for around 15 years.

[underpants]

24. Thank you.

Merry Christmas 🎄 Prof

[ProfessorGAC]

25. You Too!

Cooked surf & turf today. Ribeye and scallops. Safron potato puree & carrots with a bourbon/caramel sauce.
I was busy today!

[niyad]

3. I remember reading somewhere that 50% of the world's population lives

within ten miles of a coast (in duscussing glacier melt, sea rise, and possible megatsunamis).

[teach1st]

4. In 2017, a UN report said this:

Nearly 2.4 billion people (about 40 per cent of the world’s population) live within 100 km (60 miles) of the coast.

https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Ocean-fact-sheet-package.pdf

[NJCher]

14. Maybe

The water represents emotion and it has that connection to the earth for people. I’m talking jungian archetype sort of thing.

I have friends here who say they absolutely have to be near the water; wouldn’t have it any other way.

[SCantiGOP]

22. I know about 90% of Canadians

Live within 100 miles of the US border.

[MLAA]

5. Interesting, thanks!

[aggiesal]

6. Find Australia! n/t

[Leith]

11. Hah!

Where did all the Canadians go?! Bring'em back!

[aggiesal]

12. Where's Alaska? n/t

[progree]

7. The Population Connection Dot video of population growth

It is about 6 1/2 minutes long but you can skip the first 2 minutes -- the actual dot stuff begins at 2:00 and ends at 5:42.

To cut viewing time short, to see some interesting transitions, you can start at 4:10 just before the Mongols arrive in China, and watch China's population dwindle for 2 centuries.

Or you can start at 4:30 just before the Black Plague, and watch Europe's numbers dwindle.

Or you can start at 5:00 which is about 1600 A.D. while the population is still quite modest outside of India and China, and watch the last 42 seconds.

1 dot = 1 million population

As for "OLD" version, it is much better than the newer version - the newer version flashes the dots that are added, very distracting and obscures what this is trying to show.

What's interesting is that China and India were always relatively highly populated. I read that in China / East Asia's case, that's because rice farming feeds a lot of people per acre.

[nightwing1240]

9. Really neat watching that

Thanks

[BootinUp]

10. The 20th century really

cranks it up. Too bad our brains aren't growing fast enough to manage the challenges.

[NJCher]

15. The brain power

Is there, I think. It’s the mechanism for rapid social change that is the problem, I think.

[BootinUp]

20. I was thinking the high population in East Asia

and India might be more to do with climate, but of course it is the climate that had to do with the abundance of rice.

[progree]

21. I didn't realize that the vast bulk of China is south of the vast bulk of Europe 'til I just looked

About 85% of China is south of 45 degrees N. While about 80% of Europe is north of it (just my eyeball guestimates).

And then S.E. Asia and India are even further south of China.

It has long fascinated me that latitude 45 deg N is the latitude of Minneapolis (my home town, I'm a short trudge in the snow from the 45th parallel) -- it is also the latitude of Venice, Italy (think sunny Mediterranean) and just 120 miles N. of France's Mediterranean coast.

[burrowowl]

8. Thanks for link!

[KentuckyWoman]

13. India - WOW

Great find. Thank you.

[ProfessorGAC]

26. Been There Three Times

How crowded it it, nearly everywhere i went was impossible to not notice.
This map sure confirms what I remember.

[LudwigPastorius]

16. Those maps make us look like...

bacteria or fungus growing in petri dishes.

[BootinUp]

17. There are - similarities.

[FakeNoose]

18. The original artwork is much more detailed

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https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Map-of-Global-Population-Density-Full-Map.html

It's quite stunning, but too large to post here.

[progree]

19. Stunning - for sure. Well worth the click and another click to get full screen /nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

27. Yeah, the larger pictures really help you see the height of the columns properly

which gives a better idea of the concentration. And some things I'd never known about - it shows the huge population around Chengdu and Chongqing, in the Sichuan Basin in China, far inland. (Chongqing municipality - area about 32,000 sq miles - about South Carolina; population 32 million - more than Texas, giving a population density about the same as Rhode Island).

Or the south-west coast of the Mediterranean: the coastal regions of Morocco and Algeria are more densely populated than Spain or France to the north of them. Each country has about twice the population I would have guessed.