The folks over at the World Bank have a short video on the work of demographers and they calculate how many people live on Earth. If you’ve ever wondered ‘How can they calculate the number of people that have ever lived?’, watch the video.
(via World Bank Tumblr)
What if we condensed the world’s 7 billion people into a visual representation of 100 people? How would they be distributed according to gender, age, geography or religion? The folks over at Knowledge Visualization System have done just that, based on data from 100People.org.
One of the most startling and sober stats is that 1 out of 2 children would live in poverty.
(h/t World Bank)
How much of the earth’s space would be taken up if the world’s population liked like the populations of Bangladesh, India, Uganda, China, Costa Rica, Nepal, France, United States, United Arab Emirates.
Data taken from the Global Footprint Network.
(via philiphagen.com)
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