It Is All Relative: Population Across the World

TW: When pondering America's place in the world population is one metric. The first represents total population, the 2nd the population of centurians which is a decent proxy for the age of populations. Click on the images to enlarge.

From Paul Kedrosky's
"I found these three Worldmapper chloropleths striking. Remember, in this sort of map country sizes change depending on the relevant measured variable – in this case, population..."


http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2010/02/us_corners_glob.html