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of September 2022 he showed that 4.2bn people live inside the circle, out of 8.0bn total. The most common visual of the circle, originally used by Myers and also featured by ''If More Than Half the Population of the World Lives in This Circle, Asia is the Future of Startups
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''More Than Half the World's Population Lives Inside This Circle''
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'' is a South China Sea
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-centered circular region on the world map
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that is about in radius (roughly 6.7% of the Earth's total surface area) and contains more than half the world’s population. It was named after the Reddit
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username of Ken Myers, a Texas English as a second language
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teacher who first drew attention to the phenomenon in 2013.After seeing a recent post about the population of Indonesia, this occurred to me''
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'' The map became a meme and was featured in numerous forms of media.
In 2015, the circle was tested by Danny Quah
Danny Quah () is Li Ka Shing Professor in Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. Quah's work includes contributions to the fields of economic growth, development economics, monetary economics, ma ...
, who verified the claim but moved the circle slightly to exclude most of Japan, and used a globe model rather than a map projection
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as well as more specific calculations. He calculated that, as of 2015, half of the world's population lived within a radius of the city of Mong Khet in Myanmar
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In 2022, the original circle was tested by Riaz Shah, Professor of Practice at Hult International Business School
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. Using data from thUN World Population Prospects
of September 2022 he showed that 4.2bn people live inside the circle, out of 8.0bn total. The most common visual of the circle, originally used by Myers and also featured by ''
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Winkel tripel projection
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