WORLD POPULATION AMONG CONTINENTS Assessment 3 - Storytelling with Open Data
Tharan Rajadurai : s4084990
Introduction
In this assignment, we are going to the see how the
population differs in different continents. The reason I chose this
topic is because recently my friend and I were discussing how the world
population has increased so much in just 10-15 years and it got me
thinking, wanting to do a research on world population. So I thought I
could tell a story with the research I did. In this assignment, I have
shared my insights on the population density in different continents and
how the world population is distributed among the continents.
Data Overview
I have used the World Population Data set from
kaggle. I have pasted the link to the source below.
Source: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/iamsouravbanerjee/world-population-dataset
The key columns in the data set includes Country/Territory, Continent,
Population (2022), Area, Density (per kmĀ²)
The purpose of using this
data set is that we can explore the population trends and regional
variations around the world.
I wanted to first see how the population was among different continents, and as I guessed Asia turned out to have the highest population density. South America has the least density in population. Africa and Oceania have more or less the same amount of population. Europe has the second highest population among all the continents. One of the main reasons for this could be because Asia and Europe have many countries in them as compared to the other continents. Asia has a total of 48 countries and Europe has a total of 44 countries. Although Africa has 54 countries, their area is comparitevely smaller to other continents.
The pie chart shows us how the world population is divided among different continents. Asia has the highest population, followed bt Africa then Europe, then North America, South America and Oceania has a very minor population as compared to other continent. It is evident that more than 50% of the world popuation is from Asia.
Then I studied a little about the growth rate of population in different continents over the years. I did not expect the growth rate of every continent to be so close to each other. As we can see in the plot, the population in every continent has evolved over the years in a more or less the same pace. They have a ver mild difference between them. Only Africa is a bit higher in terms of growth in population, but every other country have the same growth rate.