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People are distributed on the planet extremely unevenly. Most people are concentrated in areas with a comfortable climate, which are mainly located in subtropical and tropical latitudes. Asia has the highest concentration of people in the world.
The maps below illustrate the world population by latitude and longitude.
Here is the map that shares the world population in each equatorial and meridional quadrant. The most populated is the North-East quadrant which lives about 73% of the whole world’s population.
Reddit user alexmijowastaken created bizarre vivid maps, each band of which contains 1% of the earth’s population.
Each horizontal band contains 1% of the planet’s population
Each vertical band contains 1% of the planet’s population
Each diagonal band contains 1% of the planet’s population
It took over 200 thousand years of human history for the world’s population to touch one billion, and just two hundred years more to reach seven billion.
The map below created by Reddit user alexmijowastaken illustrates how the distribution of the human population has changed over the past 40 years.
Ten bands of the equal population: Latitude and Longitude, 1975 vs. 2015
