This section introduces some links which go to useful information about world population.
- World Population Density
- This page introduces how many people lives in a unit area. Europe and south-east Asia countries are high population density. On the other hand, The United States is relatively low density, though U.S. is the third largest population country.
The table below refers to "2008 World Population Data Sheet" (Population Reference Bureau). Each link goes to corresponding articles in Wikipedia.
The top 2 countries, China and India, are extremely much more than the 3rd, United States. The percentages of world population are 19.8% and 17.1% each. More than one third of world population concentrates on these two countries.
These links below are useful for knowing world population growth.
- Wikipedia - Population growth
- This page shows the definition of population growth rate, and its global characteristics through past and future.
- Wikipedia -World population growth map
- Many African countries have high population growth rate. LDC has higher rate and HDC has lower. Let's see below.
- Wikipedia - Map from Human Development Report 2007
- Compared to population growth, the two indicators match obviously.
In this section, some links related to world religion are available.
These links below are useful information about world religions.
- Wikipedia - Religion
- This page explains the definition, history, and classification of religion globally.
- Wikipedia - Worldwide percentage of adherents by religion
- The most major religion is Christianity; it covers one third in the world. Islam and Hinduism follow that.
- Wikipedia - Religion distribution
- This map shows major religions of each country. Islam locates on middle and west Asia and north Africa. Buddhism locates on east Asia. Christianity expands most. Hinduism concentrates on around India, though Hinduism has the third largest population. This map doesn't show the diversity in each country; actually some countries are mixture and others are not.
Each link goes to corresponding pages on Wikipedia. These three religions occupy two-thirds in the world.
- Christianity
- Christianity is the most major religion. This global religion is diversified on America, Europe, souce Africa and Oceania.
- Islam
- Islam has the second largest popularity. It covers middle-west Asia, north Africa, and south Asia.
- Hinduism
- Hindu people is highly concentrated on India and around that.
In this section some links are introduced for useful information about world language diversity.
- World Language Maps
- Though Chinese is spoken mostly in respect of popularity, the country is limited to China only. English is spoken at north America, Australia, etc. Spanish diverges in the middle and south of America. This diversity is based on historical background, especially conquering and colonization.
The table below is from "List of languages by number of native speakers (Wikipedia)."
| Rank | Ethnologue (2005 estimate) | Language (Family) & Wikipedia Link |
|---|
| 1 | 873,000,000 | Mandarin (Sino-Tibetan, Chinese) |
| 2 | 366,000,000 | Hindustani (Indo-European, Indo-Iranian, Indo-Aryan) |
| 3 | 322,300,000 | Spanish (Indo-European, Italic, Romance) |
| 4 | 309,350,000 | English (Indo-European, Germanic, West) |
| 5 | 206,000,000 | Arabic (Afro-Asiatic, Semitic) |
Mandarin and Hindustani are top 2. This result matches to the population of China and India.
These links are extremely useful for understanding basic concepts of this topic.
- World Population
- This note explains population density, diversity, and growth. This also shows population growth mechanism and projection formula.
- Culture
- This note explains definition and characteristics of culture.
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