• Ben Matthews@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Any map like this greatly overemphasises high latitude countries with a large surface area. For example, the population of Russia is now less than that of Bangladesh, which is hardly visible. It would be better to either show a distorted map with area proportional to population, or use population density for the colourscale, or use spots (to show where people really live, not in deserts or tundra). At minimum, choose an equal area-projection.