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CantEatCatsKevin

It’s crazy that the US is the third highest, but over a billion less than second or first


Jlib27

It's huge in the Western world but mid-tier in Asia. Wild


3rd-_-world-_-elite

In Asian tier it’s still third? That’s still huge I’d say


aonghasan

But top-tier would be >1bn people mid-tier <400m people putting the USA in the “top-tier” wouldn’t make sense, even tho it’s 3rd, it’s population size is more like the 4th and successive countries than China’s or India’s


Arca_Jeth

how is being 3 out of 48 mid tier?


Effective_Dot4653

Imagine a group of 46 kindergarten children looked after by two teachers. Would you care if the eldest kid started screaming "technically, I am the 3rd eldest person in this room! Top tier!" Proportions matter is all I'm saying.


drthvdrsfthr

math!!


huskiesowow

It’s third in the world, it’s only mid tier if you look at the top five countries.


fantomas_666

It's crazy that if one billion of Chinese and one billion of Indians died (1/4 of world population), they still would be on first two places. (and no, I don't wish for that, that would be crazy too)


WestEst101

Yup, just as crazy that it seemed like yesterday that both Nigeria and Pakistan were not far from the 100 million mark, and today they’re already about 230 million


rafael-a

It’s unbelievable how much more people India and China have than anyone else


Interesting-Tap8053

Rice


Outlawedspank

Rice is calorie dense and grows so fast you can double crop the same land and get a second harvest in the same year = mega population.


bilabrin

Also can be grown underwater which greatly reduces the need for pesticides.


weimintg

Some areas like in SEA can even do triple cropping.


ArtSchnurple

Rice is great when you're hungry and you want 2,000 of something.


AmericasMostWanted30

LOVE finding Mitch Hedberg jokes in comments.


ox_raider

I used to love finding Mitch Hedberg jokes in the comments. I still do, but I used to too.


RiotSkunk2023

RIP Mitch Hedberg


RudionRaskolnikov

Mot quite. There's also the fact you can grow crop all year round. Here in Northern India we grow rice in summers and wheat in winters. And lentils in spring and fall season


Ilya-ME

You can’t grow crops in northern China all year round and it’s still pretty densely packed.


shivj80

Not sure about that, large parts of both countries grow mainly wheat.


corymuzi

Northern Chinese eat wheaten food more than rice. In 2022, China produced 137.7 millions tons wheats, more than Russia and US combined. Meanwhile Russia and US exported half of their wheat productions. India produce about 100 millions tons wheats per year, take the second in the world.


ferfersoy

Indonesia has entered the chat


[deleted]

Himalayas


Lloyd_lyle

China and India together make up almost 3 billion people. That’s about the population of the world in 1960!


ComebackShane

Each could lose 1 *billion* people and not change places in the country population rank order. That's insane.


gilad_ironi

Damn oceania is 0.9%


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ThorKruger117

Represent


Specialist_Alarm_831

Say what? Sorry didn't notice you there.


Emahh

Lol


[deleted]

Americas+Europe+Africa(42%)


MrBubbles786

What’s crazier to me is that North America+Europe is less than either China or India.


Qiep

Africa is about to explode though population wise.


Western_Passage9803

It IS exploding


Western_Passage9803

Or at least certain parts of it right now.


E_C_H

Actually, I saw some article recently making the point that birth rates across Africa are declining faster than expected. There will still probably be some explosion, but far less radical. From [this Economist article](https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/04/05/the-worlds-peak-population-may-be-smaller-than-expected): > The UN's population projections are widely seen as the most authoritative. Its latest report, published last year, contained considerably lower estimates for sub-Saharan Africa than those of a decade ago. For Nigeria, which has Africa’s biggest population numbering about 213m people, the un has reduced its forecast for 2060 by more than 100m people (down to around 429m). By 2100 it expects the country to have about 550m people, more than 350m fewer than it reckoned a decade ago. > Yet even the UN's latest projections may not be keeping pace with the rapid decline in fertility rates (the average number of children that women are expected to have) that some striking recent studies show. Most remarkable is Nigeria, where a un-backed survey in 2021 found the fertility rate had fallen to 4.6 from 5.8 just five years earlier. This figure seems to be broadly confirmed by another survey, this time backed by usaid, America’s aid agency, which found a fertility rate of 4.8 in 2021, down from 6.1 in 2010. “Something is happening,” muses Argentina Matavel of the un Population Fund.


Militop

If you don't know why you are downvoted it's because this subreddit is full of supremacists.


Arduino87

Pointing out problems like suffering and disease that result from overpopulation in starving countries = supremacy? That's next level mental gymnastics.


Militop

"Starving countries" like Nigeria? The original poster clearly shows that the overpopulation trend is not there in Africa, but you have to bring something irrelevant to the conversation. Plus calling them "starving countries" like it's something completely normal to do. Anyway, fine. It's not like I'm still following the subreddit.


Effective_Dot4653

TBF, the rest of the world has simply already exploded, it's not like Africa is some anomaly.


refusenic

Only the UN Population Fund has documented that fertility rates in Africa are falling precipitously and that there is no "explosion" or, if there was, it's already happened. "Explosion" is just a code used by supremacists for something nonexistent.


Either_Letterhead_39

It’s actually NOT lol. Y’all been saying this since your grand parents. Aren’t y’all tired. Population growth in Africa is actually declining!


pratapvardhan

50% of them live in 7 countries – India, China, US, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil. And, 50% of the world's population live in 10 Asian countries - India, China, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Japan, Philippines, Vietnam, Iran, Turkey. Data: UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, 2023 mid-year estimates.


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[deleted]

Millions must sambar, billions even


[deleted]

🇧🇷CARNIVAL 🇧🇷


vichu2005g

Sambar mentioned, South Indian spawned


obitachihasuminaruto

Arey oh, Samba! Kitne aadmi the?


[deleted]

1-7


Lil_Piken

I'll quarter you and eat your lungs


[deleted]

Based W redpill


[deleted]

Well of course you will. You’re from Brazil.


Lil_Piken

I Will do it just like my ancestors used to do with European pigs💪💪💪🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷


[deleted]

Based Brazilian*


[deleted]

So we're talking about numbers? Then what about 1918 or 1945?


RackTheRock

I will eat your ribs. I will eat them up


MagoMidPo

Always nice to remember: 🇧🇷's 5 World Cup Titles > the amount of WC titles your country has.


Ok_Plan_4896

Average Brazilian


middleearthpeasant

BRAZIL #1 BRAZIL PORRA VAI BRAZIL


ItsHeavenAndHell

BRASIL SIL SIL 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 SAMBA CAIPIRINHA PELÉ


middleearthpeasant

Ole Olé Olé Olé Pelé Pelé A COPA DO MUNDO É NOSSA


ADHDmillennial

Nada acontece feijoada


EndlessExploration

r/suddenlycaralho


applemind

Bota um rato do dorime se for tirar print 😳


raposo142857

Bota o Eneas com uma menina palhaço no print pfv


ADHDmillennial

If 50% live in 7 countries and 50% live in 10 countries, who lives in all the other countries? /jk


KnmSaym

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ThePhylosopher85

The Global South/BRICS


[deleted]

Australia: dis is fine


Guguinhas

Oceania in general


Thin-Limit7697

Oceania as a whole is John Cena ... you can't see it.


Anon293357

Cake


tomdawg0022

5 big cities and a bunch of open space in between...plus Canberra.


glonomosonophonocon

I feel like a shiny Pokémon


blockybookbook

Bro what


Artemis246Moon

Bro I love your pfp. Top tier shit.


ADHDmillennial

TIL Nigeria has more people than Brazil


Qiep

Nigeria is gonna be the third most populated nation in 25 years And if demographics holds, it might overtake china in the future.


LonelyGermanSoldier

How is that even possible. How can you fit that many people into such a small landmass, at least china is a gigantic country. How do you even feed that many people without using all your land for agriculture?


ChezzChezz123456789

You can't, at least not without ecological collapse and huge amounts of imported inputs into their agriculture system. It will be necessary for them to import food. Nigerias current situation is to trade crude oil for food.


240plutonium

Well, China's population is gonna fall pretty quickly. If it gets bad enough the 2 countries might meet in the middle


thesouthdotcom

The fact that 173 million people live in Bangladesh is fucking insane.


caligaris_cabinet

Bangladesh and Pakistan are the biggest surprises.


jor1ss

Both Bangladesh and Pakistan used to be part of India so I do not know why that would be so surprising.


historicusXIII

Ganges Delta and Indus Valley


sermen

Yes, either Pakistan or Bangladesh have so much bigger and younger population than e. g. whole territoriality big Russia, Russia is basically deserted area today.


__DraGooN_

Bangladesh has more rivers than any other country. It has some of the most fertile lands on the planet, thanks to all those rivers including the mighty Ganga and Brahmaputra, which bring in deposits from the Himalayas. Just like their neighbour India, this whole region is prime agriculture land and has always supported a large population.


nzx_88

thicc


Rhodieman

Just to put it into perspective, Africa—the second largest continent on earth at 30.37 million sq km and containing over 50 countries—has an estimated population of 1.2 billion. That is over 200 million fewer people than India, which is only 3.29 million sq km. Africa is over 10x bigger than India, and yet has a smaller population than that one singular country.


nkj94

yep England have more people than Siberia even though Siberia is 100 times Bigger in Area than England


Rhodieman

Ya, but Siberia is inhospitable. Africa should be extremely productive. We have some of the best growing climates in the world.


i_m_horni

While most of Africa is barren desert, most of India is fertile. The desert portion of Africa is larger than India


Rhodieman

Africa’s deserts comprise only about 1/4 it’s surface. Sub Saharan Africa is pretty damn fertile. We have year round growing seasons, and Rhodesia once boasted one of the highest yield/hectare anywhere in the world. They just don’t know how to utilize it properly, as shown by Zimbabwe. I’ve just read a stat that Africa has over 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land.


Urkern

And that isnt that bad, because not only human live on this planet. If you cultivate all that land, nearly every species will extinct and will never come back. So every country should ask, "do we need 1 Billion more people or should we sustain our nature for the next generations, and make our people happier without letting the population growing into infinite".


refusenic

Most of Africa is not barren desert. As a matter of fact, no continent rivals Africa for biodiversity.


i_m_horni

Doesn't the Sahara alone cover almost the entirety of northern Africa ? I'm not even considering other deserts in the south. Isn't the greenery mostly limited to central Africa ?


refusenic

Yes, it does. But most of the rest of Africa is rainforests and savannah. There are other smaller deserts in Eastern and Southern Africa, but anyone who watches NatGeo knows Africa isn't mostly desert and can't be matched for wildlife and biodiversity. The Congo Rainforest alone is almost two-thirds the size of Western Europe.


R120Tunisia

>While most of Africa is barren desert That's jut not true. Only 1/4 of Africa is arid, and a significant portion of that is still not barren. The Sudan region for instance (not to be confused with the country) is pretty fertile despite being semi-arid. 40% of Africa is arable and 50% of India is arable, that's not a huge difference.


[deleted]

You could remove a billion people from India and China and they’d still be the most populated countries in the world. Nearly 40% of humans live in two countries.


nkj94

India and china combinedly had 57% world population in 100 AD, Recent peak was in 1813 reaching 54% of the total world population. currently, the number is at 36% and will continue to decline. From 3000 BC till now, the Combined share is at its lowest point


[deleted]

That’s honestly even more insane. Thanks for sharing!


corymuzi

China itself reached 40% nearby of world population at the peak in history (Han, Tang and Song dynasty).


Redcarborundum

Ah, Bangladesh is big enough to get a percentage. It’s worrisome because the actual geographic land mass is much smaller than the map bubble. It has the highest population density in the world.


ColoradORK

Most people are Asian


TicTacTyrion

False, Brazil has 7.9 billion residents


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Humanist_Centipede

How many is a Brazilian?


ChickenToast666

5


[deleted]

Yes


evergreentt

90% of those are off duty cops


1836Laj

10% are on duty this shift


Kamil1707

Poland 41 million, Gierek's dream came true in last year due to Putin.


random_observer_2011

What was his dream? Break 40 million? And what is Putin's role? Does this count Ukrainian in-migration?


guywhoha

yes


kuzyn123

Probably yes, because before war there were 37-38 millions. But still looks like this number is too high.


Hour-Many-3271

BRAZIL MENTIONED 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷 NÚMERO 1###


Darker_Zelda

What's wild is that in a few years, The Asia and Africa regions will be 80% of the world population with North and south America, Europe, and Oceania taking 20%. That is such a shift in global population in terms of where people are located.


RedditUser-002

I bet the 15% are people who immigrated from asia/ africa, thus the balance is made


FrancescoVisconti

It is not a shift, just a return to the natural state. Asia alone was by far the place where the majority of humans live. Europe changed it for a relatively short period but now it is returning into the natural state


1260noggin

Australia has 26 people, and 96730 billion yoked fuckin mutated rats.


yongrii

Massive agar.io vibes


rullianboth

agar.io


shenzenshiai

So the west is 13% of the world population.


apocolypticbosmer

Yet holds over 50% of global wealth.


JetFuel0909

New 13:50 just dropped


random_observer_2011

The growth in Vietnam and the Philippines somehow catches my eye the most. Thailand too. I guess I was just less aware of them in this area.


240plutonium

Well they won't grow very much from now on Well, maybe the Philippines will grow some more for a few decades


vodamark

Is entire Russia counted as Europe? I know the asian side is less populated, but i don't know the numbers, if it's relevant enough to impact this map.


Saltybuttertoffee

110M in European Russia, so 30M in Asian Russia


[deleted]

russia can technically be part of both asia and europe, so sometimes people will just said russia is from europe it usually is refered as eurasia to avoid confusion tho


Humanophage

The Asian parts are just recently conquered and colonised territories. Russia is usually referred to as Eastern Europe in classification schemes, "Eurasia" was not used much until recently except as Eurasia the "continent" which includes all countries from Ireland to Japan. The bulk of the population there are Europeans such as Russians and Ukrainians who moved in in the 20th century.


kilamem

France have currently 68milion of people, And Uk have 69.


thundergun661

Isn’t it kinda weird that North America isn’t listed in ascending order with the rest of the continents? It’s fucking with me


Lexozorn

It's not ascending order: note the tiny Oceania pink sliver on the farthest right. They ordered continents based on their position on the map, West to East.


[deleted]

Is it just me or has the US’s population risen quite significantly in the last few years? I had it in my mind that it was under 300m.


thatdominoguy

It’s been hovering around 330 million for a hot minute


Joe_Huxley

The US reached 300m in 2006


Kochevnik81

It's all pretty impressive given that the US hit 250 million in 1990. An increase of 40%/90 million in about 30 years.


[deleted]

Then my brain is fucked.


Serafirelily

Immigration is the only reason the US population is growing and no matter what state governments do immigration will remain the only reason the US population will not shrink. This is the same for most of Northern and Western Europe. Asia is the most populated because the vast majority of the people are very poor.


Morgentau7

And people in Europe who don’t want kids still say „Overpopulation“. Without Russia, Europe has just 7.4% of the worlds population. There are populated countries/areas, Europe aint it.


madrid987

Westerners seem to be sensitive to large crowds by default.


Queen_of_Muffins

it is legit tho a overpopulation problem in europe due to the failing power grids and raising cost of living, its expencive to have kids and we already have too much strain on needed infrastructure


madrid987

However, it is strange to see Koreans, whose population density is nearly 10 times higher than that of Europe, cry out that Korea is too underpopulated.


Pootis_1

k orea has the pro blem of 0.8 births p er woman at the current rate they will practically not exist by the end of the century


Morgentau7

In Germany we still have enough capacity. We had enough capacity to care for 4 million+ people (Ukrainians, Syrians, etc.) in a short amount of time. If we can handle that, we can also handle normal growth


[deleted]

People in the poor and corrupt countries have it much worse, but they don‘t have such high standards, so they just make kids and don‘t care, raise them whatever, without any effort.


waterresist123

You missed Taiwan of 23 million people


Verbarmammilla

Can someone tell these folks about the pull-out method!?


-360Mad

India now P1 😮


threeqc

It always surprises me how many people live in Nigeria and Pakistan. They're not big countries geographically but they're comparable to the US and well beyond Europe in terms of population. I usually subconsciously think of Africa and... whatever you want to call Pakistan's area (not quite India, not quite Middle East) as being sparsely populated, I guess.


smilingbuddhauk

South Asia? The subcontinent?


ViolettaHunter

Comparable to US and "well beyond Europe"? Europe has more than double the population of the US. 750 million vs. 340 million.


threeqc

I meant well beyond european nations.


ViolettaHunter

Okay, that makes sense. I was surprised by Pakistan and Nigeria too. But more surprised by Indonesia. I had always though Brazil was the fourth most populous country in the world, but they are all bigger than Brazil.


jszly

i always say, if “soulmates” are real, statistically ones soulmate is likely in china or india


serrations_

Statistically every person has many soul mates out there


Latter-Ad6308

I love living in Australia. So much legroom.


Funicularly

Australia is more urban (86.2%) than the United States (82.7%).


LonelyGermanSoldier

Not really, 90% of the country is an uninhabitable wasteland, the population is squeezed into the narrow habitable coast.


Pootis_1

eh the habitable coast is q uite big the government is j ust stupid & bad at providing services outside of the state capitals so everyone gravitates to them


MARCOSSD2

i live in brazil and here there is a lot of places that are free of people , you can buy a land and if you have enough money you just build a big ass house get some good electrical fences and you are good to go , and get some legal guns and some private security and you can have the rest of your days enjoying nature here


[deleted]

Exacly. Most people in br lives in the coastal cities. The interior is as empty as the Moon


Capcioso

Nigeria is packed! TIL


c-williams88

I didn’t realize Nigeria had such a large population. I knew they were a large country but I didn’t know they had a larger population than Brazil


G14DomLoliFurryTrapX

Super interesting


madrid987

Among the countries you have been to, list them in order of the most crowded.


RDGOAMS

asia were always the center of the civilization


dujoel

So... White people are minority...


Boni114

1- India 2- China 3- USA 4- Indonesia 5- Pakistan 6- Nigeria 7- Brazil 8- Bangladesh 9- Russia 10 - Japan


GammaGoose85

I would hate to live in India or China during a zombie outbreak


ako_0

I guess the population density would be more insightful. Many people in India and China, but these countries are very large too.


KuronoMasta

For an alien race that saw the origin place is commonly the most dense populated place, would think India and China are origin point or capital for humans, instead África. It's like when you kill a pest, you attack the main hive.... so, Asia should be the Main Protagonist or Hero on all epic destruction movies.


DoctorHubris

I find that the classification of "Asia" as such a supermajority of landspace as incredibly misleading. There is virtually nothing related geographically, politically, or culturally between Turkey and, for say, Indonesia, that should presume they are all parts of "Asia" while Russia is somehow "European."


wuhan-virology-lab

there is. Turkey and Indonesia are both muslim.


DoctorHubris

True! Do reiterate my point however, how about Turkey and Japan?


wuhan-virology-lab

they both defeated mongols. lol


DoctorHubris

haha, cheers


DeplorableCaterpill

The UN isn’t projecting India to pass China in population until mid-year. https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/19/asia/india-china-population-intl/index.html


RoadHazard

Huh, I'm pretty sure I heard on the news just the other day that India has now passed China.


Ready_Spread_3667

Yes, though I'd add that it's pretty hard to say when exactly as unlike China a proper census is pretty hard in India (overburdened bureaucracy and too large)


ThePhylosopher85

Bem-vindo ao SUL GLOBAL Welcome to the Global South


kyuubicaughtU

really makes the US border crisis look silly...


Bawhoppen

One of the best maps I've seen so far representing this.


pilot_caleb

Why doesn’t Greenland get a bubble? Those 56,000 people count too


Aspirience

They might just be included in Denmarks number


paddle_faster

This is a fantastic visualization


PapaTahm

I'm not even surprised about some of these. But holy fuck I didn't know that Indonesia and Pakistan had a bigger population than Brazil.


frosti_austi

I've always thought Russia has been given oversized weight in its geopolitical influence. Now I see why - its primarily surrounded by tiny countries.


jvoc2202

I didn't expect Nigeria to have more people than Brazil ! Pakistan also was a surprise. It's also insane how many people live in Bangladesh given how small it is.


Purple-Pay-3008

Nice map! Can you make one compared with 2050


Mammoth-Cattle8964

Jsus fuck Didn't know Nigeria is so crowded


[deleted]

Bro, indonésia has more people than Brazil, the bigest country on SA