50% of the world’s population is crammed into just 1% of the
Earth’s landmass. Yet if you wished you could fit the entire world’s human
population into the state of Texas.
The world’s population is predicted by some to reach 11
billion by 2100. The map shows there is space for us all to live but it’ll take
some clever socialist thinking to ensure we actually do.
The map is based on NASA’s gridded population data, which
records the population of Earth in 14 square kilometre patches. This map uses a
grid of 28 million cells of roughly 3 x 3 miles. “The yellow region in the map
includes every cell with a population of 8,000 or more people. Since each of
them has an area of about nine square miles, the population density of each
yellow cell is at least 900 people per square mile, roughly the same population
density as the state of Massachusetts.
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