Population Map Of World

In total there are 15 266 squares representing all 7 633 billion people on the planet.

Population map of world. Visualising population density across the globe. The total population presents one overall measure of the potential impact of the country on the world and within its region. Asia is the most populous continent with its 4 54 billion inhabitants accounting for 60 of the world population. The world s two most populated countries china and india together constitute about 36 of the world s population.

The highest world s population growth rate of over 1 8 annually occurred from 1955 to 1975. Six of the earth s seven continents are permanently inhabited on a large scale. This interactive map shows data from the global human settlement layer ghsl produced by the european. D a smith casa ucl.

In this case it s a population cartogram where each square in the map represents 500 000 people in a country s population. To learn more about world population projections go to notes on the world population clock. The world s population has been growing at an increasing rate since 1317 when the great famine ended. Residents per km 2 2015.

Starting with the 1993 factbook demographic estimates for some. It includes sovereign states inhabited dependent territories and in some cases constituent countries of sovereign states with inclusion within the list being primarily based on the iso standard iso 3166 1. This is a list of countries and dependencies by population. This massive increase in human population is largely due to improvements in diet sanitation and medicine especially compulsory vaccination against many diseases.

Africa is the second most populated continent with around 1 28 billion people or 16 of the world s population. A cartogram of the world population in 2018. The population of the world doubled reaching 2 billion in the late 1920s. Dollars on a nominal basis.

All trade figures are in u s. To learn more about international trade data go to guide to foreign trade statistics. Coordinated universal time utc is the equivalent of eastern standard time est plus 5 hours or eastern daylight saving time edt plus 4 hours. The 20th century however is where population growth really took off and over the past 100 years the planet s population has more than tripled in size.

Map labels interactive stats. Ec jrc ciesin design. With a dynamic upsurge in the population since the past decades india has become the second most populated country in the world. For instance the united kingdom is considered as a single entity while the constituent.

Thematic map population world loading map. India is home to 1 324 billion people and is the largest democracy. Populations shown for the most populous countries and on the world map are projected to july 1 2020. This entry gives an estimate from the us bureau of the census based on statistics from population censuses vital statistics registration systems or sample surveys pertaining to the recent past and on assumptions about future trends.

The population growth rate varies with each country with some big nations by land size having a smaller. From 2010 to 2015 it reduced to 1 18 and it is expected to decrease further during the 21st century. Europe s 742 million people make up 10 of the. Click on the name of the country or dependency for current estimates live population clock historical data and projected figures.

World population percentage by country as of 2017. The highest growth rate ever experienced was from 1965 to 1970 when it grew by 2 06. Map of the world if each country was the same relative size as its population.