ABOUT INFOGRAPHICS An infographic is a picture that gives you information Infographics can be graphs charts maps or other sorts of pictures The infographics in this book are about population Infographics make information easier to understand We see infographics all over the place every day They appear in books in newspapers on television on web sites on posters and in advertisements
Here's a simple infographic about how many people there are in the world World population 7 1 billion people 7 1 billion people would fill 860 cities like New York 7 1 billion people would fill 89 000 Olympic stadiums
WORLD POPULATION The population of different continents This map shows how many people live on each of the world's continents Antarctica is not included because very few people live there mimming North America 546 million South America 396 million 100 million people
Asia is by far the most heavily populated continent Europe 740 million Asia 4 2 billion Africa 1 1 billion Australia 37 million
