Human Terrain

Visualizing the world’s Population, in 3D

Kinshasa is now bigger than Paris.
 Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Shenzhen are
 forming an epic, 40 million-person super city.

Over the past 30 years, the scale of population change is hard to grasp. How do you even visualize 10 million people?

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Compare to 1990

Population Present Day

Show change, 1990-2015 ▪ Declinevs. ▪ Growth

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