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Making sense of the world in 14 Maps

These maps will help you put the present state of affairs in the world into perspective.

by Mihai Andrei, January 13, 2015 – Updated on April 29, 2023

in Features, Geography

Each color has 1 billion people

This is the world divided into seven sections – each with approximately 1 billion people. That’s right, both the Americas and Australia together have just as much population as that red strip in South-East Asia or the orange bit in and around India. But if you think this is a shock…

This may surprise you

Population on Earth is not distributed evenly, to put it mildly. India and South-East Asia are very densely populated, so more people live inside that circle than outside it. That’s also where most of the world’s population growth is happening. Also, it’s not just population that is divided unequally…

The world’s income levels

As you can see, we still live in a segregated world — economically. The rich areas are in Europe (except for the eastern part), the US (and likely Canada), Japan, Australia and some parts of Arabia. Africa is still predominantly extremely poor, while Eastern Europe, South America and some parts of Asia are still in a transition phase. Financial and social inequality is still a problem for mankind.

Countries with which England has never fought (in white)

The biggest colonial empire in the world, Great Britain has left their mark on mankind and made a lot of enemies along the way. As it turns out… they fought with almost everybody. Sweden gets an honorable mention for being so close to England and yet not fighting the Brits.

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Philosopher journalist Robert D. Kaplan talking about fun feelgood
uplifting stuff:

> The coming anarchy was published in 1994 as an essay. It came out
> in book form in 1996. That was the heart of the n the mid 1990s
> when the policy elite at famous posh conferences in Davos and
> elsewhere were predicting a world of liberal humanism. Uh they
> predicted that uh Africa, Asia, every place would just follow
> Eastern Europe into democracy and good governance. And I was
> traveling around Africa, the Middle East, and other places, and I
> said, "That's not true at all. These places have different
> histories. They're at a different time in their development, and
> they're not just following what happened with the collapse of the
> this a number of regimes in former communist Eastern Europe. So,
> you know, I I saw a totally different world than the policy elites
> at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezpWWP0Yow8&t=4m26s

Taken from Youtube's automatic transcription of Making Sense no. 440 -
How to Understand Our Global Emergency.

More here:

https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/440-a-world-in-crisis

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