Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
It’s one of the most interesting groups in the world as 50-80 million people worldwide claim some sort of Irish ancestry.
Yet the island of Ireland (Republic + Northern Ireland) only has a population of around 7 million, meaning there is around a 10:1 ratio of Irish living outside of Ireland as on it.
Here are the estimated numbers by country:
The map above shows 48 hypothetical US states centered around the 48 largest urban areas, such that every point in a state is closer to its urban core than to any other.
This is known a Voronoi partition.
It also shows the predicted number of electoral college votes each state would have, and which way it would lean politically.
The map above looks at the most vegetarian and vegan friendly US states based on the number of restaurants per million people. Just looking at the map you can see a clear coastal bias for these restaurants compared to more inland states.
Here’s the breakdown by State:
The map above looks at the most and least friendly countries for Vegetarians & Vegans in Europe based on the number of restaurants per million people.
Here’s the breakdown by country:
Here’s an overview of the regions shown:
They are:
The map above shows where you can find Tennis courts in Europe. Southern England is the big standout with by far the highest density of courts.
The density then drops off as you head further East and also in Spain, which has loads around the coast and few in the middle outside of Madrid.
If the US followed the Cube Root Law, where the size of the lower house is the cube root of the population being represented, it would have 693 House seats.
Each member would represent ~477,000 people, down from today’s 760,000.
The map above highlights the European (and surrounding) countries where more than 20% of the population is aged 65 or older. By far the oldest is Monaco, where 35% of its population are over 65.
And even in countries in Dark blue the numbers are usually much close to 20% than 10% (e.g. Switzerland – 19.67%, UK – 19.46%, Poland 18.53%, etc.)
Below is a list of all countries in the world where 20% of its population is over 65: