Here is an animation I made of the distribution of the world population from 1 AD until 2300 AD (projected) where the size of each country's territory is distorted so as to show its relative population size. These maps were obtained from the mind-boggling Worldmapper project at the University of Sheffield where you will find surprising maps of a wide range of demographic and economic indicators (such as refugees, tourists, chemicals, ores and computer exports (check out Singapore!)

Hat tip to the very estimable BLDGBLOG.

Administrator's note: this seems like a good time to declare a brief hiatus. Once again I'm running a bit out of puff and those time constraints still haven't gone away. So you might as well know now that there won't be any new posts here at Laputan Logic for at least a couple... well, let's just say four weeks.

In the meantime, don't forget to check out those archives. Cheers.