You can find more details on this cartogram in our explainer: ‘ The map we need if we want to think about how global living conditions are changing‘. Large countries with a small population shrink in size (look for Canada, Mongolia, Australia, or Russia). Small countries with a high population density increase in size in this cartogram relative to the world maps we are used to – look at Bangladesh, Taiwan, or the Netherlands. The 11.5 million Belgians are represented by 23 squares the 49.5 million Colombians are represented by 99 squares the 1.415 billion people in China are represented by 2830 squares, and the entire world population of 7.633 billion people in 2018 is represented by the total sum of 15,266 squares.Īs the size of the population rather than the size of the territory is shown in this map you can see some big differences when you compare it to the standard geographical map we’re most familiar with. The cartogram is made up of squares, each of which represents half a million people of a country’s population. The cartogram shows where in the world the global population was at home in 2018. This is shown here in a population cartogram: a geographical presentation of the world where the size of the countries is not drawn according to the distribution of land, but according to the distribution of people. One way to understand the distribution of people across the world is to reform the world map, not based on the area but according to population.
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