World Population Cartogram (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. 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. 711 million people live in Europe, less than 10% of the world population.8

Another way to show where the world population lives is to show the population density of each country on a geographical world map, as you see below.

Source: ourworldindata.org