The World as 100 People Over the Last Two Centuries

Looking at the world as 100 people, (or a percentage of the population), we can see very interesting trends and shifts around the world in many areas.  Each of the graphic in today’s graphic are also interactive on the source site, ourworldindata.org.  There you can see others as well such as population distributions, levels of education, and political regimes (aside from the shown “democracies”.  [VIA]

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