Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows 5 Areas of Brazil With The Same Population of 43 million people each. Basically, a lot of people live on or near the coasts.
Although that said, roughly 43 million people, around the same population as all of Canada, live in the innermost area.
You can see it a bit more clearly in this population density map:
The map above shows Google’s official Street View coverage as of 15 October 2024. The United States, Western Europe, Japan and India among others are all really covered.
The map above shows what starting and losing two world wars did to the distribution of the German language throughout Europe between 1910 and 2010.
The map above shows over 100 different football grounds of Great Britain and you can buy a copy here.
From the author:
It feels like there is a lot of doom and gloom in the world today, from global warming to crime to economic and integrational inequality to political polarization, etc.
It’s very easy to get wrapped up in this negative view of the world and I’m far from immune to it.
I’m now in my early 40s and have 3 young kids and I regularly worry about the type of world they’ll grow up and live in.
As a parent of 3 young kids few maps have resonated as much as the map above showing where people are getting less than 7 hours sleep a night, the amount the Center for Disease Control (CDC) considers enough.
The map itself was from 2014, but I’ve managed to find the 2020 data by country here:
In the map above all countries in green claim to be democracies whereas those in red don’t make the claim.
Only the 7 countries in red don’t make any claims on being democratic.
They are:
