Visualizing 7 Billion

The news today that the world population has hit 7 billion is challenging to process. NPR.org makes it more intelligible with this video showing how that population has changed over time in different regions of the world.

 

I love visualizations like this, that take something so mind-bendingly complex and make it so simple and clear. That really is (or should be) the goal of all good communications, I think.

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