Max Galka used gridded population data from Nasa to learn how the world is populated. He found half of the world lives in 1% of the Earth's surface and the rest resides in the other 99%.

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Considering Russia has the ninth highest population in the world, it is the area on this map with the largest gap between its population ranking and its population density ranking.

Canada is the world's second largest country in terms of area, but its population is tiny. That's the lesson of this map, which comes via Ezra Klein and I Love Charts and shows the U.S. divided ...

The remaining 90%, of course, inhabit the regions colored white. (That’s how math works!) The map above was created by data cruncher Max Galka using QGIS, a free, open source, all-purpose ...

We’ve seen alot of world population maps, but this might just be prettiest one yet. Simple black lines trace the population density by latitude, so that a few cities, labeled in yellow, tower ...

This all adds up to a grand total of 4,014,145,453, which is 50.17 percent of the world's population. The circle appears to include parts of Russia and Pakistan, which haven't been included in our ...

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Second, the map shows that the majority of the world’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere–where most of the land is—and the temperate climate zone.