Great visual on how sparsely populated Australia is.
I like how you can just about make out the shape of Australia’s east and south coastlines.
I’m not good at geography, but I’m going to pretend that that’s New Zealand and this is revenge for all the times NZ was left off the map.
But you actually can make out New Zealand!('s North Island.) Auckland is easy to see, and I can just make out Wellington from the preview version. When I look at the full-resolution there are enough dots scattered around to make out the full North Island, plus a couple of the bigger towns on the South Island.
But not Canada at all. I figured it would be Australia that would be completely invisible, but nope, Canada.
India jfc
India became the world’s most populous country last April. I didn’t even know that.
Probably had been for a while as Chinese numbers aren’t considered to be reliable
I’m in this picture, and I don’t like it
Nothing that exciting. I just live in a very small community, quite a distance from any larger community, and I’m pretty sure that at the scale of that map - my community doesn’t exist. If I zoom in enough, maybe there’s something there, but I think it’s digital compression artefacts.
Europe looks less dense than what I expected. And north Africa is way denser than I thought. Which puts the “migrant crisis” in perspective.
The Pharaohs might be gone, but Egypt never stopped being a massive population center.
I was more surprised by the northwest. from Casablanca to Algiers to Tunis.
Basically all countries that started having some economic growth since 1950 will have this spike effect. The countries that were already rich had a slow population transition, the other ones a fast one. The short version of that story is that in the latter child mortality went down slowly, and in the the former it was a quick proces. People take some time to adapt to this new reality, which means that for a shirt period of time 10 of 10 children will grow up to have kids of their own. After a while, the amount of children goes down to 2 or less, and growth stops. In Europe, this lade population multiply by two or three, in North Africa for example it can be up to times five or more. And in modern societies, this kind of growth tends to concentrate in cities.
Dang, India needs to find a different hobby.
