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, …
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 …
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 — …
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 …
