World Population Cartograms

Oct 12, 2022

In one of my recents projects, I’ve created a world population cartogram.

In such a map, country size represents population. Each one-by-one square stands for 500,000 people. Each country exists of as many squares as needed to represent its population.

About Cartograms

According to Max Roser, founder of OurWorldInData, this is “the map we need if we want to think about how global living conditions are changing”. Because it puts people and populations into the focus of attention, other than geographical maps which represent land area.

To learn about which countries are over- and underrepresented in geographical maps, click the map below created by Lisa Charlotte Muth in datawrapper.