population

We saw the changing percentage of white people in the United States and how whites are not the majority in a lot of places. Who is the majority in these…

Below is the estimated percentage of white population in the United States from 1970 to 2010, based on data from the Census Bureau and made more accessible by NHGIS. I…

We know that there are more people per square mile in some places than others, but it can be a challenge to understand the magnitude of the differences. The same…

According to the U.S. census, the mean center of the population shifted west every decade since 1790. They show the change in a simple animation. The mean center of population,…

We’ve seen the map of where everyone lives. Now here’s the reverse of that by Nik Freeman: where nobody lives in the United States. A Block is the smallest area…

As China moves forward with a plan to move 250 million people to cities, officials developed a need to keep track of how many people are still in rural areas.…

Dustin Cable, a demographer at the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service, added another dimension to Brandon Martin-Anderson population map. The racial dot map by Cable draws…

How much space is there per person in different countries? Andrew Bergmann for CNNMoney took a look. Population density measures the amount of people in a given area, generally per…

In the 2010 United States Census, 308,745,538 were counted, and Brandon Martin-Anderson from the MIT Media Lab mapped almost all of them (308,450,225 points to be exact). I like the…

Geography graduate student Derek Watkins has some fun with population densities in an interactive version of William Bunge’s The Continents and Islands of Mankind. The above shows areas in the…

Form design intern at Fathom, James Grady, maps population density in Dencity: Dencity maps population density using circles of various size and hue. Larger, darker circles show areas with fewer…

NPR explains how we reached a population of 7 billion. Simply put, the world is making babies faster than people are dying, and with improved medicine and agriculture, people are…

According to estimates from the United Nations Population Division, there are now over seven billion people in the world. That’s enough people to fill, like, an entire room. Yeah. Visualization…

National Geographic has a look at where and how we live: The map shows population density; the brightest points are the highest densities. Each country is colored according to its…

World population is estimated to be 6.9 billion people, and while that is a lot of people, it suddenly doesn’t seem like that much in these maps by Tim De…

You’ve seen population changes at the state and county level, but with Census data, you can zoom in all the way to the block level. Stephen Von Worley breaks it…

Continuing their series on world population, National Geographic focuses in on the “most typical” person in the world. The above image is an artist’s rendering of the average face computed…