Data: kontur (world population database) abnd Beck et al. (2018) for the Köppen climate zones
Data was processed in QGIS and the rest was done on adobe illustrator for the graphic design…
Köppen climate maps are great but what about human population in these climates? I tried to bring a visual answer to that question with the population estimates (population and population density) for each of the 30 types there are.
Was about to say that Aw checks out as that’s where humans evolved, until I saw the population density figures.
Surprised Cfa doesn’t score more highly than Dwa on population density. I guess that Cfa is weighed down by the Southern US whereas Dwa only really exists around Northern China/Manchuria.
The weather zones in Australia look incorrect. Sub-tropical areas are coloured the same as temperate ones.
I think a chart showing amount of land taken up by each climate would be interesting as well
I was wondering, why didn’t Dwb get a population count in thousands? It’s a lot closer to Dfc than Csb, seems like that sudden drop would be a good place to delineate.
Should the Cfa label which is pointing at the Iberian Peninsula actually read Csa?
Is the Cfa for spain a typo? It has the colour of Csa.
Makes sense. Tropical Savannah is the environment we evolved in.
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Data: kontur (world population database) abnd Beck et al. (2018) for the Köppen climate zones
Data was processed in QGIS and the rest was done on adobe illustrator for the graphic design…
Köppen climate maps are great but what about human population in these climates? I tried to bring a visual answer to that question with the population estimates (population and population density) for each of the 30 types there are.
Hope you like the result and find it interesting!
if you want to see more, here’s my [website](https://www.perrinremonte.com/fraccueil-1) for geo / map nerds! 🙂 (not smartphone friendly)
Was about to say that Aw checks out as that’s where humans evolved, until I saw the population density figures.
Surprised Cfa doesn’t score more highly than Dwa on population density. I guess that Cfa is weighed down by the Southern US whereas Dwa only really exists around Northern China/Manchuria.
Yup, this data is beautiful
Geodiode [did a YouTube video on this topic](https://youtu.be/L6ke-8m7zD8) ([population density too](https://youtu.be/sXpH4dEIkZA)), except they didn’t break down specific Köppen 3-letter combos like Cwa vs Cfa
The weather zones in Australia look incorrect. Sub-tropical areas are coloured the same as temperate ones.
I think a chart showing amount of land taken up by each climate would be interesting as well
I was wondering, why didn’t Dwb get a population count in thousands? It’s a lot closer to Dfc than Csb, seems like that sudden drop would be a good place to delineate.
Should the Cfa label which is pointing at the Iberian Peninsula actually read Csa?
Is the Cfa for spain a typo? It has the colour of Csa.
Makes sense. Tropical Savannah is the environment we evolved in.
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