I’ve always been curious about how people are distributed around the world. The distribution is not uniform – this map illustrates areas with high population density (dark colors) and those with low density (light colors):

Specifically, East Asian countries are densely populated, to the extent that there’s this astounding fact:

(Note: Parts of Malaysia and Indonesia have been excluded intentionally – even without them, the red regions still hold over 50.2% of the global population.)

To put things into perspective regarding how differently people live on Earth, I researched the average population density of cities, states, or countries, and envisioned all humans living at that same density. In other words, how much space would be required to accommodate all 7,103,900,000 individuals if we all lived at the density of various locations worldwide. Here are some insights:

(Side note: If all habitable land on Earth had the same density as Manhattan, the planet could accommodate 1.73 trillion people. Let’s avoid that scenario.)

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