Population

Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Nigeria produced roughly 7.6 million births in 2025 — more than the entire continent of Europe, which recorded approximately 6.2 million across dozens of countries with a combined population nearly three times larger. That single comparison, made visible in the treemap accompanying this article, where cell area …

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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. The treemap accompanying this article assigns Brazil a cell nearly as large as all its neighbours combined — and that is not a distortion. Brazil holds 213.2 million of South America's 439.1 million people, exactly 48.55% of the continent's total. It is the only South American country …

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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Source: UN World Population Prospects The treemap accompanying this article assigns cell area by population, not by land mass. The result is that the United States fills more than half the entire chart. That is not a visual distortion — it is an accurate representation of a …

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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Source: UN World Population Prospects The treemap accompanying this article assigns Russia a cell larger than Germany, the UK, France, and Italy. That proportion is accurate — Russia's 143.6 million people outnumbers all of those four countries — but the visual carries an irony that the raw …

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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Source: UN World Population Prospects The treemap accompanying this article assigns cell area by population, not landmass — and the result immediately distorts every geographic instinct a reader brings to the Pacific. Australia, which occupies a continental landmass of 7.7 million square kilometres, holds 59.06% of Oceania's …

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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Source: UN World Population Prospects The treemap accompanying this article places India and China side by side as two enormous blocks — and then shows everything else in Asia as a fraction of those two. Indonesia, the third most populous country on the continent at 286.8 million, …

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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Source: UN World Population Prospects Nigeria’s 239.97 million people occupy more space in the treemap accompanying this article than Ethiopia and Egypt combined. That visual fact captures something a political map cannot: Africa’s population is not evenly distributed across its 50-plus countries — it is heavily concentrated …

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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Source: UN World Population Prospects The treemap accompanying this article resizes every country by population rather than land area, and the result reorders intuitions built up over a lifetime of reading conventional maps. The top 5 countries — India, China, the United States, Indonesia, and Pakistan — …

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Every country drawn to scale by Everything Econ. Source: UN World Population Prospects The treemap accompanying this article resizes every country by population, not land area, and the result overturns nearly every geographic intuition. Australia — a continent — nearly vanishes. Ethiopia’s cell is larger than Japan’s. India dominates the upper half of the chart …

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