Theo Burman is a Newsweek Live News Reporter based in London, U.K. He writes about U.S. politics and international news, with a focus on infrastructure and technology. He has covered technological ...

In a compelling visual produced by The World in Maps , the global population has been redrawn to reflect an entirely ...

Max Galka Most of the world's population is concentrated in China, India, and the surrounding countries. The United States is similar to the world map in that about half of the national population ...

In order to comprehend what it means for one country to have one-fifth of the world's population, this nifty map (from the indispensable @Amazing_Maps on Twitter) divides the world into five ...

World maps distort — it's inherent in their design. Take a spherical object (the Earth) and try to represent it on a flat plane (paper), and some parts of the sphere are going to get stretched.

Maps are famous for distorting the earth. Because they portray our world in only two dimensions ... that resized countries based on their population size, college student Chase Mohrman decided ...

That's a little more than 0.7% of the population and more than 700 for every 100,000 people. This world map illustrates how disconcerting that is. The size of each country corresponds to the size ...

According to the models of the United Nations (UN), the world ... on education statistics for more accurate information,” he says. The UN predictions suggest that China’s population has ...