{"id":679,"date":"2011-11-02T21:18:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T20:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visurus.wordpress.com\/?p=679"},"modified":"2011-11-02T21:18:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T20:18:38","slug":"visualizing-the-growth-to-7-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2011\/11\/visualizing-the-growth-to-7-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing the growth to 7 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has a nice video on their website with a playful visualization of how humanity grew to count 7 billion living people. Using more or less leaky glasses as a metaphor, the video visualizes the population growth which has been taking place in different regions of the world since AD 1000.<\/p>\n<p>Hitting the 7 billion threshold has seen many maps and visualizations on the internet, but I like this one especially, for it&#8217;s simple and clear yet nicely explains the concept of net growth resulting from different trends in human mortality and fertility.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/10\/31\/141816460\/visualizing-how-a-population-grows-to-7-billion\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-680\" title=\"7 billion people visualization by NPR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/npr_7billion_visualization.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/npr_7billion_visualization.png 596w, https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/npr_7billion_visualization-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/10\/31\/141816460\/visualizing-how-a-population-grows-to-7-billion\">Visualizing how a population grows to 7 billion<\/a>\u00a0(NPR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR has a nice video on their website with a playful visualization of how humanity grew to count 7 billion living people. Using more or less leaky glasses as a metaphor, the video visualizes the population growth which has been taking place in different regions of the world since AD 1000. Hitting the 7 billion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2011\/11\/visualizing-the-growth-to-7-billion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visualizing the growth to 7 billion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[36,52,62,125],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-note","tag-demography","tag-geo","tag-history","tag-visualization"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-aX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}