Interesting map by*Bill Rankin. It*shows what percentage of Earth’s population lives within 10,000 km of you. In order to compute that Bill had to*calculate the percent of all humans that live on the half of the globe centered each point of the Earth.
Almost all of Eurasia is above 80 percent, and a majority of Europe is above 90 percent, with the center of the Human Hemisphere at 92.6% somewhere in western Switzerland. This map makes a lot of sense when we look at distribution of Earth’s population per latitudes and longitudes.
By looking at that graths we can say that roughly 88% of the world’s population lives in the northern hemisphere, and about half the world’s population lives north of 27°N. Looking at that high values in Europe make sense but it’s still striking.
source: Brilliant Maps
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