This taps into the Americentrism present–the idea that the United States is superior. The green slice–that contains the United States–seemingly depicts an overall more dispersed population as it is a comparatively large section. The subtitle “Americans live in the broadest, emptiest slice of the planet” is a comical, yet accurate, interpretation. Have you ever considered how the 7.8 billion people or rather the (7.5 billion when this map was created in 2017) are dispersed throughout the world? This map called “The Earth Divided In 10 Zones of Equal Population” does just that it visually divides the world into 10 parts each with 10% of the world’s population, displaying the variation in population density.
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