Here’s a look at the top 10 states with the strictest gun laws and their number of gun-related deaths in 2021: Rank Since 2010, researchers at Giffords Law Center have been ranking state gun laws across America and seeing if there’s a correlation between stricter gun laws and lower gun-related deaths. It uses 2021 data from Giffords Law Center and contrasts against gun-related deaths in each state. Which states have the strictest (and loosest) gun regulations around? This graphic by Elbie Bentley sets the ground for comparing gun laws across America before the impact of the Supreme Court’s ruling can be fully understood. firearm regulation varying greatly from state to state. This lack of consensus is apparent not just in public opinion, but in legislation, with U.S. The decision brought renowned attention to the ongoing debate around America’s gun laws-one that Americans have grossly differing views on. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down concealed-gun legislation in New York sent shock waves through the country. This same thought process can be applied to other areas of life, so that we can always be learning - and data never gets stale.Ĭomparing Gun Laws and Gun-Related Deaths Across America If we always look at things the same way, it’s hard to notice something new.Įach time we view a map from a different angle, it creates the opportunity to discover new insights. Yet, if Russia had the population density of Bangladesh, it would be home to 19 billion people, which is three times the current global total. Russia and Bangladesh are also back-to-back Russia has 145 million people, while Bangladesh has 163 million. Both have about 26 million people, but Australia has a landmass that is about 63 times as large. The animated map also creates some eye-popping juxtapositions between countries, which are appearing in order of population.įor example, Australia and North Korea appear in sequence. The Namib takes away Namibia’s entire coastline, while the Kalahari makes most of Botswana and parts of Namibia almost inhospitable. We are all familiar with the vast extent of the Sahara (which makes most of Libya and Maritania desolate), but have you heard of the Namib or Kalahari deserts in the south? The reason for this lack of population density lies partly in geography.
However, if you watch the animation, you’ll notice that many of the first countries appearing on the map are African - in fact, six of the 10 least densely populated countries in the world are on the continent: Namibia, Libya, Botswana, Mauritania, Central African Republic, and Gabon. Using this and the map as reference, what stands out? Africa in FocusĪfrica has over 1.2 billion people living on it, so we often think of the continent as having a fairly high population density. In fact, many large countries appear on the map early on - taking massive amounts of geographic real estate, but with very low populations.īelow is a list of the 10 countries with the lowest population densities on the planet: Rank However, when we watch an animation like this, it becomes clear that this is not often the case.
We naturally assume that the bigger a country is, the more people it usually has. Let’s dive into a couple things that stood out.
It’s a visual trick that helps trigger some new insights, specifically about the population density of countries and continents. In the above animation, countries are added onto the map in sequence - each must have a minimum population of 1 million people - going from Swaziland (now officially known as Eswatini) all the way up to China. Today’s animated map comes to us from Reddit user notoriousstats, and it provides another angle of looking at a traditional world map: by plotting countries in the order of ascending populations, from the least populated to the most populated. One way to do this is to present data in a different way than what is traditionally expected, enabling a fresh perspective of the same information. To keep information from getting stale, it can be worth changing things up. Mapping the Most Populous Countries, in Ascending Order