Incredible map shows HALF of Earth's population living on 1% of land

Land covers 196.9 million square miles of the planet, which is broken up into 196 countries that are home to 7.125 billion people.

With so much land available on Earth you would think people are spread out evenly throughout the world - but a stunning new map reveals that isn't the case.

An entrepreneur used data from Nasa to understand where most of the world’s population resides and found half of us are crammed into just one percent of the world.

Max Galka, co-founder of a real estate data business, compiled the information from Nasa’s gridded population data, which organizes populations based on geographic regions, to create an informative map.

‘The gridded population data divides the world population into a grid of tiny square-shaped cells, without regard for administrative borders,’ according to Galka’s blog.

For this research, a grid comprised of 28 million cells was used, each one measuring roughly 3 miles by 3 miles.

Out of the 28 million cells, the ones with a population over 8,000 are coloured in yellow, which means those areas have a population density of about 900 people for every square mile.

Galka explains this is ‘roughly the same population density as the state of Massachusetts'.

The black areas in the map reflect the opposite, with populations less than 8,000 people and less than 900 people per square mile.

The world is evenly split between the yellow and the black, but as the map shows the yellow is only one percent of the Earth’s surface.

According to the United Nations, the majority of the world’s population growth will occur in Africa by 2100.

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