Smallest area where 50%, 90% and 99% of the world live [OC]

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neilrkaye on December 18th, 2020 at 18:06 UTC »

Using HYDE gridded population I worked out the fewest pixels that made up 50, 90 and 99% of the world's population using raster in R. The plot was made using ggplot in R.

gdimop on December 18th, 2020 at 18:53 UTC »

I knew that Australia's population is small, but damn, the place looks almost completely empty.

DorkInShiningArmour on December 18th, 2020 at 18:58 UTC »

Woah , good lord north India population density be... DENSE