population

World population estimator and gridded data from NASA

Data Sources / NASA, population

Population data typically comes in the context of boundaries. City data. County data.…
Majority minorities

Sketchbook / animation, population, R, race

We saw the changing percentage of white people in the United States and…
Percentage of white people

Sketchbook / animation, population, race

Below is the estimated percentage of white population in the United States from…
Two Centuries of Population, Animated

Data Underload / America, population

A visual history of a growing United States.
Who is Older and Younger than You

Data Underload / age, population

Here's a chart to show you how long you have until you start to feel your age.
Equal population mapper

Maps / density, population, Slate

We know that there are more people per square mile in some places…
Watch the U.S. population center shift west

Maps / census, population

According to the U.S. census, the mean center of the population shifted west…
Where nobody lives

Maps / census, population

We’ve seen the map of where everyone lives. Now here’s the reverse of…
Pickle Index for population estimation

Statistics / China, population

As China moves forward with a plan to move 250 million people to…
Racial dot map

Maps / census, ethnicity, population

Dustin Cable, a demographer at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for…
Personal space per person in various countries

Infographics / CNNMoney, population

How much space is there per person in different countries? Andrew Bergmann for…
Map of every person counted in 2010 US Census

Maps / census, population

In the 2010 United States Census, 308,745,538 were counted, and Brandon Martin-Anderson from…
Interactive Islands of Mankind

Maps / interactive, population

Geography graduate student Derek Watkins has some fun with population densities in an…
What seven billion people looks like

Maps / density, Fathom, population

Form design intern at Fathom, James Grady, maps population density in Dencity: Dencity…
How we got to a population of 7 billion

Infographics / NPR, population, video

NPR explains how we reached a population of 7 billion. Simply put, the…
7 billion people in the world: past, present and future

Maps / bestiario, interactive, population

According to estimates from the United Nations Population Division, there are now over…
World population densities mapped

Maps / density, population

National Geographic has a look at where and how we live: The map…
If the world lived in a single city

Maps / density, population

World population is estimated to be 6.9 billion people, and while that is…
Rings of population change by block

Maps / census, population

You’ve seen population changes at the state and county level, but with Census…
Most typical person in the world

Infographics / averaging, population, world

Continuing their series on world population, National Geographic focuses in on the “most…