If the world’s 8.2 billion people were split into 5 horizontal slices of equal population, each band would hold about 1.64 billion people ????. The narrowest strips run through some of the planet’s most densely populated areas — like India, China, and Southeast Asia — while vast swathes of land in Siberia, Canada, and the Sahara balance out with fewer inhabitants. It’s a striking reminder of how unevenly humanity is spread across the globe.