Source: Visual Capitalist<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You may remember The World as 100 People<\/a>. It went viral a few years back\u2014a helpful attempt to explain who lives in our world according to a number of different categories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you realize Earth\u2019s population has doubled in size over the last 50 years, now exceeding 8 billion people? More than half of them live in Asia! If you represented the planet\u2019s population as just 1,000 people, using UN data from mid-2023, you\u2019d have 178 in India and 177 in China. Sweden and Honduras would be down to just one person each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See how many would live on each continent and in each country with this interactive map and chart<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n See also Gina Zurlo\u2019s 2020 visualization of The World as 100 Christians<\/a> (with data on Global Christianity).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interested in the big picture? Find some food for thought in a brief article called Better Than You Think<\/a>, in which Philip Yancey reflects on the message of Hans Roslin (author of the 2018 book Factfulness<\/em>) about the state of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Visual Capitalist You may remember The World as 100 People. It went viral a few years back\u2014a helpful attempt to explain who lives in our world according to a number of different categories. Do you realize Earth\u2019s population has doubled in size over the last 50 years, now exceeding 8 billion people? More than … Continue reading Map: The World as 1,000 People (Representing 8,045,311,447)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12528,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12527\/revisions\/12528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}