![]() ![]() It’s also worth mentioning that immigrant labor in the U.A.E. citizens only make up 11.5% of the population, and the rest (88.5%) is made of workers mostly from South Asia. Oil wealth and significant investment is one side of the story, but the influx of foreign workers is an even bigger one. Abu Dhabi had just 25,000 people in 1960, and today it’s a metropolis of almost 2 million people. Interestingly, Plymouth is still listed as the territory’s capital city today, making it the only capital city of a political jurisdiction that is completely abandoned.ĭubai was once a fishing village, but now it’s an international real estate hub. People evacuated, mostly fleeing to the United Kingdom, and the population of the island dropped by two-thirds over the period of five years. In 1995, a previously dormant volcano erupted in this British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, destroying the island’s capital city of Plymouth. How the population grows in any particular country is a function of fertility, mortality, and migration rates, and these outliers each have something anomalous happening at least one of these factors. These are the stories that are worth looking at in more depth. This means the places outside of the middle range are the true outliers, gaining or losing many multiples of their original populations. ![]() The graph is on a logarithmic scale, which ultimately groups together most growth rates even though they would be much further apart on a linear scale. Today’s data visualization comes to us from Reddit user /r/mythicquale and it shows the population growth of every country using data and projections from the United Nations population division. In any large set of data, there are bound to be some interesting outliers. World Population Growth Visualized (1950-2100) ![]()
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