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Amazing world population map reveals as many people live in one small corner of China as in North America, South America and Australia COMBINED

A region made up of the Indian subcontinent and Myanmar also has just as much as that too showing just how packed south Asia has become 

AN EXTRAORDINARY map has emerged which starkly lays bare where most people are living in the world and how much space they have to live.

The graphic has split the world into seven equal areas of population and the results are astonishing.


The map which shows the world carved up in regions with the same numbers of people living thereIt was posted on Reddit with the aim of putting the world's population into perspective.

Amazingly, a partial section of east China and Japan has more people living there than the continents of north and south America plus Australia and New Zealand.

A smaller region comprising the Indian subcontinent and Myanmar has the same too.

And while it is eight times smaller than a territory spanning Middle East and Europe it has the same numbers living there.

The map essentially reveals most people are crammed into a relatively small space in south Asia.

Cooling off in China can be a cramped affair

Perhaps it is no surprise, given how tightly packed everyone is in the nations, that their populations make up the bulk of those emigrating to the West.

People have most room in the Americas and Australia.

Some 4 billion of the world's 7.4 billion people live in urban areas, the World Bank said last night.

By 2045 it expects that to rise to 6 billion.

But economic inequality is high in many Asia-Pacific cities, which are struggling with poor infrastructure, a shortage of affordable housing and the effects of climate change.

Anjali Mahendra, who leads research at WRI's Ross Center for Sustainable Cities, said: "There are dense, unserviced settlements within cities that have very poor quality of life."
