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The World’s Population Mapped by Latitude and Longitude

by Robert Quigley | 12:55 pm, August 12th, 2010

Radical cartographer and Harvard grad student Bill Rankin devised these fascinating maps, which show the sum of all population living at each degree of latitude or longitude circa 2000. As you can see above, there’s quite a northerly bias: According to Rankin, roughly 88 percent of the world’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere, with about half north of 27 degrees north.

Rankin: “Taking the northern and southern hemispheres together, on average the world’s population lives 24 degrees from the equator.”

(Bill Rankin via Paul Kedrosky via @felixsalmon)

  • Seeds01

    the beauty of this graph shows how vunerable the northern hemisphere population north of tropic of cancer are to a cooling of the planet!!!!!! – if it warms these guys are laughing as more growth in agriculture should allow growth in population.

    i am betting that such a graph when  compared to climate variations over the years would see a distinct relationship of peoples moving up and back from the equatorial zones.

    Climate warming is NOT our threat it is the cooling which will come at some stage.
     

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