Maps that explain the World
The Asian population in the United States grew to almost 12 million by 2000 and approximately doubled to 22.5 million by 2019 (7% of the U.S. population). The Asian population in America is predicted to touch 46 million by 2060, outdoing Hispanics in 2055.
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North America contains the most significant number of oak species, with around 90 growing in the U.S., while Mexico has 160 species, of which 109 are endemic. In the United States, the highest diversity of oak species occurs in the eastern states.
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Hispanic are Americans who are the posterity of immigrants from Spain or Latin America. Hispanics generally are the leading minority ethnic group in the U.S., after non-Hispanic white Americans. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, in 2020, Hispanics made up 18.7% (62.1 million) of the U.S. population.
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Now that 2019 is almost done, we think it would be interesting to look backward at our most favored maps of the year.
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African Americans make up 14.6% (47.8 million) of the U.S. population. In recent decades, there has been an increase in U.S. counties with a predominance of blacks.
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The maps are based on distance from cities, roads, railways, and airports. The green areas represent places where travel to the city, road and other transportation facilities can be measured in hundreds of kilometers.
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The road system of the United States now surpasses four million miles in combined length, plus numerous additional service roads and off-road driving trails. The registered roads and their rights-of-way occupy about 1 percent of the land of the U.S.
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Many of the world’s cities will face sharply different climates by 2050. I tried to visualize how climate change will affect world cities. I chose 6,000 cities and examined the current climate for each using the Global Environmental Stratification based on modeling future climate conditions as predicted by 63 of the emission scenario combinations.
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3 percent (4.5 million km2 / 2.8 million mi2) of the Earth’s land cover is occupied by urban areas. However, even non-urban areas contain roads, railroads and other marks of human presence. Only ten percent of the world is truly a wilderness.
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In 2017 it was estimated that 5.8 percent of the population of the United States was 0–4 years old.
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