More than half the world’s population lives within a circle superimposed over a section of Asia.
The world population is now 7.1 billion. The countries in the circle, and their populations, are:
The total population inside the circle, at top, is 3.638 billion, or roughly 51.4 percent of the world's population.
To put it another way, China now has a population of 1.35 billion people.
The map, below. divides the world into five areas that each have 1.35 billion people in them:
Of course, not every area of the world is evenly populated.
For example, in the map below, only 2% of the population lives in the yellow parts of Australia; 98% of the population of the countrty can be found in the white bits along the coast.
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The world population is now 7.1 billion. The countries in the circle, and their populations, are:
- China: 1,349,585,838
- India: 1,220,800,359
- Indonesia: 251,160,124
- Bangladesh: 163,654,860
- Japan: 127,253,075
- Philippines: 105,720,644
- Vietnam: 92,477,857
- Thailand: 67,448,120
- Burma: 55,167,330
- South Korea: 48,955,203
- Nepal: 30,430,267
- Malaysia: 29,628,392
- North Korea: 24,720,407
- Taiwan: 23,299,716
- Sri Lanka: 21,675,648
- Cambodia: 15,205,539
- Laos: 6,695,166
- Mongolia: 3,226,516
- Bhutan: 725,296
The total population inside the circle, at top, is 3.638 billion, or roughly 51.4 percent of the world's population.
The map, below. divides the world into five areas that each have 1.35 billion people in them:
- China
- All of the Americas, western Europe and Australia together
- All of Africa and the Middle East together
- India and parts of the Indian subcontinent
- The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and parts of western Asia together
Of course, not every area of the world is evenly populated.
For example, in the map below, only 2% of the population lives in the yellow parts of Australia; 98% of the population of the countrty can be found in the white bits along the coast.
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