Data comes from the United Nations’ World Population Prospects. I calculated the absolute growth for each country between 2022 and 2037, and then determined their relative share in the next billion. I think it’s an interesting graph, but to be honest, it doesn’t tell the whole story, as the population at any given time already includes immigration (according to the medium variant projections). Perhaps I should have used natural population growth instead, but oh well. This was made in R, and the code is available on my GitHub.
China’s pop will half in around 80 yrs..
But millennials said children are expensive.
Dang. Great visualized data. Very beautiful.
5 counties counting for more than 40% is pretty wild. And none of them China, not what people would expect.
Why there’s an obsolete USA flag? Reverse to 13 states?
Looks like Dr. Congo can’t keep it in the pants
This would be better to see it cross referenced with the current population in each of those countries.
So… a lot more diarrhea in our future?
How do you account for countries with declining populations in the ‘next billion’? The numbers get a bit wonky since you are looking at percentages and there are many countries that should be represented as negative percentages.
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Wow. Europe will flourish… not.
Data comes from the United Nations’ World Population Prospects. I calculated the absolute growth for each country between 2022 and 2037, and then determined their relative share in the next billion. I think it’s an interesting graph, but to be honest, it doesn’t tell the whole story, as the population at any given time already includes immigration (according to the medium variant projections). Perhaps I should have used natural population growth instead, but oh well. This was made in R, and the code is available on my GitHub.
China’s pop will half in around 80 yrs..
But millennials said children are expensive.
Dang. Great visualized data. Very beautiful.
5 counties counting for more than 40% is pretty wild. And none of them China, not what people would expect.
Why there’s an obsolete USA flag? Reverse to 13 states?
Looks like Dr. Congo can’t keep it in the pants
This would be better to see it cross referenced with the current population in each of those countries.
So… a lot more diarrhea in our future?
How do you account for countries with declining populations in the ‘next billion’? The numbers get a bit wonky since you are looking at percentages and there are many countries that should be represented as negative percentages.