This Map's Red and Blue Regions Each Contain 5% of the World Population
The remaining 90%, of course, inhabit the regions colored white. (That’s how math works!)
Half of the U.S. lives in these 146 counties - is yours one of them?
Using publicly available Census data, Business Insider's Walter Hickey and Joe Weisenthal have deduced that over half of America's population is localized to a mere 146 of the 3,144 U.S. counties and county-equivalents.
More than half of the world's population lives inside this circle
Even more mindblowing: said circle is mostly water.
What If You Crammed The Entire Human Population Into a Single City?
Here's food for thought: Some cities are considerably more densely populated than others. Imagine packing all 6.9 billion people in the world into a city you know. How much space would that megacity take up?
