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It’s difficult to get a handle on the population density around the world. Fortunately, this visualisation makes it a little easier to get your head round.
Put together by Derek Watkins, it’s actually interactive: you get to use a slider to shift the population density and see it change before your eyes. You should head to his website to try it out for yourself. The image above shows the areas around the world that home 5 people per square mile or more.
It gets more interesting as you crank the population density slider up, though. A ten-fold increase wipes out much of the land mass, sure, but the area of the world home to 50 people per square mile or more still provides an identifiable map.
Move to a hundred times the original figure however—at 500 people per square mile or more—and virtually everything disappears.
[Derek Watkins via Flowing Data]
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London doesn’t disappear till 440.
I knew South England was overcrowded, but I didn’t realize how much. It’s up there with China and India.
And USA is a wasteland…
London isn’t called a city state for nothing.
Plus, it’s an absolute f***ing shithole. I detest working there. Had to change my route to work recently because there’s a place (on the Jubilee footbridge, downstream side) constantly befouled with human faeces.