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| 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 habitabl
by 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 agoDoesn’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 agoTrue [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 agoI think its something crazy like 90% of people live within 100 miles of the border
- tonyarkles 7y agoThat 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)