If the world's population all lived in one city, how big would it be?
Posted June 28, 2011 in Living Sustainably
Tim De Chant from the very interesting blog Per Square Mile has constructed a graphic showing how much space the world's population of 6.9 billion people (soon to be 7b, if it isn't already) would take up at various densities:
Thanks to Fenno Hoffman for pointing me to this graphic.
Kaid Benfield writes (almost) daily about community, development, and the environment. For more posts, see his blog's home page.
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Kai Hagen — Jun 28 2011 10:11 AM
I knew the New York density equals Texas part, but it's interesting to see the comparisons graphically.
What would also be interesting would be to see the amount of land it takes to support that population based on different diet and energy (and other consumption) profiles.
Abraham Benson-Goldberg — Jun 28 2011 02:20 PM
I'm pretty sure you mean to say "6.9 billion (soon to be 7b)" as opposed to million. Because I think we'd be pretty set if the world's population was only 6.9 million.
Kaid @ NRDC — Jul 1 2011 09:11 AM
Yikes - good catch. Thanks.