![]() Large countries with a small population shrink in size – talking about you Canada, Mongolia, Australia, and 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 this year’s entire world population of 7.633 billion people 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. So I spent the last few weekends making this cartogram for the world population in 2018. If we want to show where the world’s people are we need a population cartogram, a geographical presentation of the world where the size of the countries are not drawn according to the distribution of land, but according to the distribution of people. Maps are made for a different purpose they show us where the world’s land masses are. ![]() But despite the popularity and familiarity of world maps, they can mislead our understanding of global living conditions. To show global data it is convenient to use a map. ![]() Our mission here at Our World in Data is to make the big global problems understandable. ![]()
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