Visualising 7 million
Syria has a million child refugees, a million adult refugees, and about 5 million ‘internally displaced persons’. What does that look like?
Al Jazeera News has an interactive map of the USA to demonstrate: click on a location and see an area around that point whose population is equal to the number of refugees. For example, Albuquerque, New Mexico, location of Breaking Bad, gives
In New Zealand, the 1 million child refugees corresponds to most of the population of urban Auckland. Adding the million adult refugees would expand to cover Northland and Waikato, and the total of seven million people corresponds to all of New Zealand, plus Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, and more.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »