Via Imgur:
“There are more people living inside this circle than outside of it.”
Pretty crazy. Time to do some Wikipedia’ing, based on my eyeballing of the countries included in the circle.
| Bangladesh | 161,083,804 |
| Bhutan | 716,896 |
| Brunei | 408,786 |
| Burma | 54,584,650 |
| Cambodia | 14,952,665 |
| China (I’m not sure if this number includes Hong Kong and Macau) | 1,343,239,923 |
| East Timor | 1,143,667 |
| India | 1,205,073,612 |
| Indonesia | 248,645,008 |
| Japan | 127,368,088 |
| Laos | 6,586,266 |
| Malaysia | 29,179,952 |
| Maldives | 394,451 |
| Mongolia | 3,179,997 |
| Nepal | 29,890,686 |
| North Korea | 24,589,122 |
| Pakistan | 190,291,129 |
| Philippines | 103,775,002 |
| Singapore | 5,353,494 |
| South Korea | 48,860,500 |
| Sri Lanka | 21,481,334 |
| Taiwan | 23,071,779 |
| Thailand | 67,091,089 |
| Vietnam | 91,519,289 |
| TOTAL | 3,802,481,189 |
The U.S. Census Bureau’s estimate of the world population is constantly increasing, so I’ll just round it up to 7.087 billion. The above total represents approximately 53.6% of the world’s population.
The above list includes six of the ten most populous countries in the world. For gits and shiggles, here are the other four:
| United States | 315,895,000 |
| Brazil | 198,176,000 |
| Nigeria | 170,123,740 |
| Russia | 143,347,100 |
| TOTAL | 827,541,840 |
The above map includes part of Russia, so that circle actually has an even higher percentage of the world’s population in it.
To offer another perspective, the above-circled area probably represents more total land area than the United States, but it also has over twelve times as many people. If I had more time, I’d compare the GDPs of the 24 countries in the circle to that of the U.S., but I’m sure someone else has done that.
For a little extra fun, someone labeled the islands of Indonesia with the European countries that have similar population numbers.
The island of Java (53,589 sq. mi.) has about the same number of people as all of Russia (6,592,800 sq. mi.), and is about 0.8% Russia’s size.
