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Actual place where the data visualizations came from with better zoomed-up pictures instead of blurry ones in the link: http://www.carrieosgood.com/dataviz/world-population.html

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Thanks for that link. The data on population distribution reminded me of another factoid that was popular a couple years ago, the "more people live in this circle than outside it": https://www.cntraveler.com/story/more-than-half-the-worlds-p... .

Basically, there are more people living in a circle that encompasses India and China (and hence lots of other populous parts of Asia like Indonesia) than there are in North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Australia combined.

that doesn't seem surprising tbh. given the 80/20 rule (or whatever statistical distribution governs this case).

Thanks. I couldn't find a link on the posted website. Which I always hate, especially when they don't embed the high-res images.

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