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> 1/3rd of that circle is water. Fine. Thrown in the saraha desert and a few other inhospitable areas and it'll make up that third. > And a significant amount

> 1/3rd of that circle is water. Fine. Thrown in the saraha desert and a few other inhospitable areas and it'll make up that third. > And a significant amount of it is also Siberia and Mongolia. Are we looking at the same map? Hardly any part of siberia is included ( maybe the a tiny portion of the russian far east ). Feel free to take out the mongolian landmass if you want. > Double check your math. Did and my idea still holds.

Jupe 7y ago
| So in the end, about 50% of the world population lives in about 50% of the world's habitable land. Your math may be accurate, but your assessment of habitable land-mass seems to be off. I know and work with a number of people in Canada, and I've visited many, many times. I'd hardly consider the entire area of Canada "uninhabitable". (Per wikipedia [1], Canada has a total (non-water) area of 3,511,023 sq. mi.) 37 million people live Canada [1]. Also, just a quick visual check indicates that about 1/2 of the area within that circle is ocean. And, the population density of the Himalayas (which is in the circle) is arguably small as well. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada
- senordevnyc 7y ago
  Doesn’t almost all of the population of Canada live along the southern border? My understanding is that the northern ~80% of Canada is very sparsely populated.
  - Jupe 7y ago
    True [1] But, still I wouldn't consider the entire country to be "uninhabitable" [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/d756ql/population_density_map_of_canada_shows_that_over/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/d756ql/population_...
  - flyingswift 7y ago
    I think its something crazy like 90% of people live within 100 miles of the border
    - tonyarkles 7y ago
      That is correct. Pretty much the all of the major cities are right around that 100 mile mark. On the coasts that’s because of geography (Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and the Atlantic provinces). In the prairies we generally have one major city close to the border (Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg) and one further north (Edmonton, Saskatoon, none in MB)
code_sloth 7y ago
You're still assuming ALL of that remaining land area in the circle is habitable. Eg. India has 43% of it's land classified under "others" [0]. A large chunk of that 43% is not likely to be habitable. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use_statistics_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use_statistics_by_country

Jupe 7y ago

| So in the end, about 50% of the world population lives in about 50% of the world's habitable land. Your math may be accurate, but your assessment of habitable land-mass seems to be off. I know and work with a number of people in Canada, and I've visited many, many times. I'd hardly consider the entire area of Canada "uninhabitable". (Per wikipedia [1], Canada has a total (non-water) area of 3,511,023 sq. mi.) 37 million people live Canada [1]. Also, just a quick visual check indicates that about 1/2 of the area within that circle is ocean. And, the population density of the Himalayas (which is in the circle) is arguably small as well. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada

senordevnyc 7y ago
Doesn’t almost all of the population of Canada live along the southern border? My understanding is that the northern ~80% of Canada is very sparsely populated.
- Jupe 7y ago
  True [1] But, still I wouldn't consider the entire country to be "uninhabitable" [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/d756ql/population_density_map_of_canada_shows_that_over/ https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/d756ql/population_...
- flyingswift 7y ago
  I think its something crazy like 90% of people live within 100 miles of the border
  - tonyarkles 7y ago
    That is correct. Pretty much the all of the major cities are right around that 100 mile mark. On the coasts that’s because of geography (Victoria, Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and the Atlantic provinces). In the prairies we generally have one major city close to the border (Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg) and one further north (Edmonton, Saskatoon, none in MB)

code_sloth 7y ago

You're still assuming ALL of that remaining land area in the circle is habitable. Eg. India has 43% of it's land classified under "others" [0]. A large chunk of that 43% is not likely to be habitable. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use_statistics_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_use_statistics_by_country