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Global population density (www.visualcapitalist.com)
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Another website: http://www.luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/#6/37.545/16.556

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-density

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This map looks good, but feels somewhat misleading. For me, it looks like India is home to about half of the world's population.

Still, very beautiful presentation.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

India has 17% of the world's population - on a scale like this image, that's not far off "about half"! It looks right to me.