Treemap · Diagram Design
World population · six continents
World population · six continents
Treemap of world population by continent in mid-2023, where cell area is population; Asia holds about 59 percent of the world total and Oceania, at under one percent, is too small to label.
Asia
4.78B · 59% of world
Africa
1.48B · 18%
Europe
0.75B · 9%
North America
0.61B · 8%
South America
0.43B · 5%
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LEGEND
AREA = POPULATION · OUR WORLD IN DATA CONTINENTS (UN WPP) · MID-2023 · 8.09B TOTAL · PARTS ROUNDED, MAY NOT SUM
Asia · the focal share
Other continents · darker is larger
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Oceania · 0.05B, 0.6% — too small to label