Most Countries Are Empty Of People, Here's Why
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▶ In this video I talk about areas of the world (in red) where nobody lives.
If you're a fan of geography videos on CZcams, you've probably seen videos like this before. But in this video, I'm taking a different approach. Instead of delving into super specific examples, I'm zooming out to look at the bigger picture. From vast areas of Canada and the Amazon to parts of Africa and Asia, the world appears largely empty. However, when we examine the simple element of population density, the picture changes. Additional factors like natural conditions, economic development, and human-made borders all contribute to why some areas are sparsely populated. Join me as we explore why most of the world seems empty, establishing reasons and criteria that likely apply to all those other videos you watch too.
▶ TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:58 Where Does "Nobody Live?"
02:15 The Human "Archipelago"
02:55 Why Some Areas Are Naturally Empty
03:46 NordVPN
05:14 Why Are Other Places Also "Empty"?
05:31 The Example Of China's Population Line
05:56 The USA's Population Divide Line
06:20 Portugal & Spain's Example
06:38 How Urbanization Led To Emptiness Elsewhere
07:37 Are We Moving Towards More Emptiness?
08:25 Population Density Worldwide
08:54 How Country Lines / Borders Result In Differences Too
10:22 Summary
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*Is your country also mostly empty?*
Was in SW USA a dew months ago deiving through parts of Colorado, Utah and New Mexico. It was greatvto see such large ooen spaces and so few people.
Living in a city i thought the area was beautiful without humans.
As a person particularly living and from the Far East, definitely not
the Australian problem is that not only is the rain extremely low, being the driest continent outside of Antarctica, but when it does rain, it will flood. The rain patterns are so irregular throughout most of the inner country, that even modern infrastructure can't prevent extreme drought and flood conditions.
The north of Western Australia experienced less than 4mm of rain each year for 9 years straight, and then, almost out of nowhere, received something like 21mm in 48 hours.
Whereas even the more 'bush' areas closer to the cities are still dangerous due to bushfires as they have the same weather/water problems. Hence most Australians just stick to the coastline and urban areas.
Argentina, yes, most of it empty
My STATE is mostly empty. Except for a few counties.
Lol the final boss video, why nobody lives in red ultimate edition : The earth
Nah, someone’s gonna do one with the entire Milky Way shaded red.
That day will come.
Why nobody lives in red: the observable universe
Bro just ended real life lore's whole career in 11 minutes
Common W from General Knowledge 🗿
😭🤣
Rll once used to be mainly science related videos not geography
lmfao
Types of uninhabited places in Earth:
- Freezing cold, desolate places.
- Torrid, arid deserts.
- Chernobyl.
People living at Chernobyl. I visited in 2009.
@@archstanton6102 Yes I know. Seemed like a good joke though
@@marcelolopez1001 ok, apologies.
@@archstanton6102 No need my friend
Jungle and rainforest?.Chernnobyl on map is not red.Stupid?
"In Asia there are a few areas like this" - while half of the continent is red
*Cries in Siberia*
Siberia is empty even by Canadian standard
@@SirZeuby Canadian standards Siberia is objectively not empty, they have similar populations (33 million vs 38 million) and Siberia has multiple cities with 1 million inhabitants and further north than any other in Canada.
Largest Urban Areas in Siberia/Northern Asia (2019)
1. Novosibirsk (55°03′N): 1.73 million
2. Yekaterinburg (56°50′08″N): 1.72 million
3. Chelyabinsk (55°09′17″N): 1.40 million
4. Omsk (54°59′N): 1.17 million
5. Krasnoyarsk (56°00′32″N): 1.14 million
6. Tyumen (57°09′N): 0.83 million
7. Irkutsk (52°17′N): 0.75 million
8. Vladivostok (43°6′54″N): 0.74 million
9. Barnaul (53°20′55″N): 0.70 million
10. Khabarovsk (48°29′N): 0.66 million
Largest metro areas in Canada (2021)
1. Toronto (43°44′30″N): 6.20 million
2. Montreal (45°30′32″N): 4.29 million
3. Vancouver (49°15′39″N): 2.64 million
4. Ottawa (45°25′29″N): 1.49 million
5. Calgary ( 51°3′N): 1.48 million
6. Edmonton (53°32′04″N): 1.42 million
7. Quebec City (46°48′50″N): 0.84 million
8. Winnipeg (49°53′4″N): 0.83 million
9. Hamilton (43°15′24″N): 0.79 million
10. Kitchener (43°25′07″N): 0.56 million
@@greasher926 im talking about the unpopulated area and you are showing me the populated area like gotcha. pal we aren't talking about those we are talking about the empty part.
@@SirZeu You are judging Siberia by Canadian standards. Canada is objectively emptier than Siberia. Canada doesn’t even have any mid tier cities north of 60N.
Siberian Cities > 100k north of 60N
Surgut (61°15′N): 396,443
Yakutsk (62°01′48″N): 355,443
Nizhnevartovsk (60°57′N): 283,256
Norilsk (69°20′N): 174,453
Nefteyugansk (61°05′N): 124,732
Khanty-Mansiysk (61°00′N): 107,473
Novy-Urengoy (66°05′N): 107,251
The largest in Canada are;
Whitehorse (60°43′27″N): 28,201
Yellow Knife (62°27′13″N): 20,340
General Knowledge brings the video to end all "Why is X empty" videos once and for all.
Thank you for your service, General.
I'm sure we'll keep seeing them! 😂 (from myself too)
Why are there no population centers in inhospitable deserts or mountains? I wonder 🤔
Because you haven't terraformed it yet unlike Phoenix or L.A. In the USA, or nearly the whole of Saudi Arabia.
Meanwhile Cairo, Jaipur, Riyadh, Madrid, Manas, Novosibirsk, Kashgar, Ürümqi, Ulaan Baatar laughing at this guy's less knowledge.
Bro, look at the above mentioned cities which have millions of people even after being situated in deserts/mountains/tundra or Rainforests.
Well, who is The Outback/Great Australian Desert + some more uninhabitable for? Started with Many of the Europeans who came and settled there. And after them too. Aborigines lived in Outback including Much of the Driest Desert for 50000 years. Thar Desert, 1 of World's Most Arid Places is the Most Populated Desert in the World where People have been Living for Millenniums - includes Some of the World's Richest Royal Families including from Rajasthan.
Looking to Saudi Arabia: Except, that is, when OIL.
because those deserts can't support a large population without a lot of infrastructure and investment
Too dry, too cold, too rugged.
Also most of the Arabian peninsula is completely empty of people or other living things. This map is probably based on census districts and the Riyadh district probably covers much of the peninsula thereby assigning people to sand dunes
Yeah, I noticed that too. Like, why isn't the Empty Quarter listed as, well, empty? Having it based on census districts makes sense I suppose, from a data gathering perspective. But the map makers really should have double checked the data for anomalies like this. Not every country is going to run their census the same way.
too fertile (rain forest in amazon, congo, borneo.)
As a Canadian I can confirm that Nunavut is very warm and welcoming trust me
We ain’t having Nunavut, sorry
Ahh yes, that Polar Bear trickery to get more humans up there. We know what you're up to ;-)
Just like Thule.
Greetings from the sunny beaches of Arctic Bay!
We have to put all those new immigrants somewhere.
The ocean isn’t red…
There’s your existential crisis for the day. Ocean people rule the world.
Atlantis confirmed
The sad thing about big cities with large populations, is that they were often initially placed in the most fertile of lands. So that when those cities expanded over time, they moved more and more into the fertile lands and basically destroyed all the best farm lands.
that's the reality of urban cities, each one started as a village then town then metro area, that's why the earliest people gathered in search of food and water, and why most major cities are near a river or ocean
True
not really. many cities exist because they were trading ports or towns.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 "often" is a word, you know.
General Knowledge explained in 11 minutes what RealLifeLore couldn't in 20 vids
Some of the areas in red are settled but you only need so many people to farm or extract other resources. If the industry is mining say, then a few thousand people can produce an extremely large amount of wealth.
yeah there is a correlation between farming and low population, the land is taken up by crops instead of people
the biggest surprise for me on that map is that the Arabian peninsula isn't as empty as I once thought.
The ultimate RealLifeLore video
Great concept for a video, I enjoyed this!
Whenever I look at population distribution maps, I can notice how densely populated the Asia Pacific region is, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, Japan, and this video shows, there are very few empty places in this region of the world
Great video. Keep them going!
Thanks!
Mr Beat already made a short with a similar concept funnily enough. Just a general explanation for every one of those videos
That's where I got the idea for this video! His was very good.
I live in Alberta Canada and outside our cities and small towns. Its pretty empty. I can drive 30 mins from any major city here and be the only one for many square KMs.
Edmonton (Alberta) and Hamburg (Northern Germany), are located nearly on the same latitude!
also Canada only has a fraction of the population of the US, so much smaller in general
Great video.! Congrats
Thank you!
The most interesting of these videos is when they’re about human history and not just the geography sucks
Me who lives in the red area in Canada: oh i guess im no one then
You're better off if the government doesn't know you exist.
Awesome sharing
What If the Sakhalin and Kuril Islands were a part of Japan 🇯🇵
bro wants 1905 back
Soon
@@IamPyu-v dont worry russia collapses and Japan takes their islands back
"What if" toe jam was worth the same as gold, or blue was red. Arbitrary questions are pointless.
Then Japan would get nuclearly boomed for the third time??
Mechanisation in the rural areas led to a lack of farming jobs. So young adults had to move into the cities to find work.
also, there aren't many other opportunities either, there's a correlation between farming and low population, there's nothing keeping people from leaving for the cities to find work
It also can be the scale used like 1km^2 is kinda big.
I live in the deserts of Arizona, cant wait for 100 degrees whether. Despite being in the red, Arizona doesn't experience any natural disasters compared to other US states.
I think you forgot one important reason. Infrastructure much of canada while cold is habitable but there is infrastructure for people to move in.
Some places are easi to settle (like the american west) but other require huge commitment for people to be able to move there
Minecraft villagers: *Laughs in desert biome*
i live in the red
So do i 😂 canada is not that sparsely populated the country is just massive
I’m in Uruguay right now and can confirm: besides the cities of Punta Del Leste and Montevideo, there’s no one here. The Pampas are vast and nearly depopulated.
Came here First, been waiting for your video
If anything, there's a shocking amount of areas that _aren't_ red. The planet is absolutely chock full of people to the point where it can barely handle it. Most of the empty areas are ecologically unproductive land (deserts, mountain peaks/plateaus or tundras), with precious few regions of lush true wilderness.
most cities started in those true wilderness, from a village to town to metro area, that's why most major cities are near a river or ocean, the land is used by people instead of crops
Your original logo intro was better than the new one
Please bring it back
Very good. This is a big subject in Australia. One of the major factors is navigable rivers and coasts. If you exclude other variables there is a close match. You must include some rivers and canal systems that were navigable but have fallen into disuse. Climate is the biggest variable but if you look at maps from the 1930's you will notice areas like Florida and Louisiana were once empty but are now filling. The same is true for most north Queensland and tropical south east Asia. Air conditioning plays a major part. Invented in WW3 to cool army bases and supplies the technology made a major change to the maps. Highway technology also opened up the west of the USA. Canals filled with sea water running inland though desert housing is a technology that is opening up many coastal deserts: UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Egypt. It will be moving out of the middle east soon.
The key future technologies have been identified.
1. Air wells, these condense water from the air. They will work even in deep desert but they require reliable night time power. Ground loop heat pumps cooling desert housing is also deploying.
2. Shade design so that the buildings don't get direct sun at high noon and in the mid afternoon. Shaded gardens and parks. The Neom project is all about shade, a self shading project. Its a major part of the New Cities in Egypt. Solar powered air-conditioning on all vehicles and shaded parking.
3. Air cars and Cheap VTOL sky trucks are still science fiction but when they come they will open up many mountainous regions. That's an easy prediction. Europe, the Swiss, Austrians, Italians, and Norwegians haves many funicular railways and cable car systems in their mountains. These including cable car systems for containers and car lifters. The companies that make them have been trying to penetrate mountain countries in the Americas and Asia but often these projects fail because the regions are prone to corruption &/or war.
4. In the cold the key is inter connected urban buildings; tunnels and skyways. Indoor garden and recreational spaces. Weather proof air lock entries and car parking. Double and triple glazing and highways built for snow clearing. Auxiliary heating on any vehicles.
In all cases there are working examples but the technologies are still not cheap enough.
Generally regions with climate and/or topography unsuitable for human habitation
The highlands of Scotland is an interesting case, the terrain would make transport difficult but not long ago it was full of villages where people farmed the land, but land owners saw more profit in herds of sheep so evicted the people.
The bulk of china’s population has always existed to the east of that line. Urbanization did bring rural people into the cities but the vast majority came from rural areas immediately near those cities. The western half of China has always been sparsely populated by comparison and actually since industrialization more of the Chinese population has shifted west relative to historical trends.
Missed transportation - The eastern US is more densely populated in part because the are natural transportation route (rivers) throughout that area, while in the west the are very few. Water transportation means I can cheeply get good coth in and out of a location - if I can't do that I am limited to only what I can grow myself, and if I grow more, I can't sell it, so that will limit population
Worth noting, the red part of Scandinavia is cold but not more than -40 so not too bad but that part is dark. No sun for one to two months! Darkness is sooo much worse than cold. The rest of Norway and Sweden at least get some daylight, even if the darkness still looms heavily over us.
One chapter title is "How Urbanization Led to Emptiness Elsewhere." I don't think that's accurate. Urbanization didn't de-populate the other areas; it just increased the population density in the cities and their relative share of the population. I would guess that most of the non-urban areas maintained their populations or even increased in population gradually, while the urban areas' population massively increased. For example the map comparison at 7:17 shows an increase in population in all locations, and no visible decreases, even in the less urban areas.
That's a good point! But I think at one point there *was* a population exodus from the countryside to urban centers due to industrialization, no?
Just think about how many people you needed on a farm before tractors and other machines were invented and used on a langer scale. Rural areas definitely lost many people to cities then, because they had to leave in search of new jobs.
There has been depopulation of many rural areas such as in the Great Plains of North America. Increased mechanization lead to fewer agricultural workers. Fewer workers had a spillover effect of not supporting as many services. Drive into a rural area not within commuting distance of urban areas and you will see many examples of towns and villages that are just a remant of their earlier population. If you can't get a job in a rural area, you will move to an area where there is more of a chance to get one - closer to a city.
so what's up with the map in Saudi Arabia? it seems to indicate that the Rub' al Khali IS populated with >1 resident/km^2, which absolutely is not true, and that extends to much of the rest of Saudi Arabia (which is rather famously mostly empty being mostly desert)
cause mountains, cold, dry or a combination of those.
If Antarctica was put in there, if would be FULLY RED.
Well…not totally. There are a few research stations that are permanently populated.
Lack of access to water and arable land would be two large reasons. Climate would be another.
Let's see...
Climate and water mostly with one affecting the other. Deserts, tundras, dense jungles.
The US Canadian border is actually a good example of how politics has influenced population density. Alberta is 3x more densely populated than Montana even though they have similar geography, climates, demographics, etc.
part of that reason is simply because southern Canada, along the border is where settlers expanded out into. Meanwhile Montana was never really along a popular route for settlers so didn’t receive many. North of Alberta is much harsher and so Canadians moved there. Meanwhile south of Montana is much more mild and so Americans didn’t move to Montana.
If Montana had been Canadian is probably would’ve received more settlement and if Alberta was American it probably would’ve received less.
That is an excellent question. And the answer is: Only one way to find out.
The American state of Nevada is a great example of highly variable population density. Outside of the Las Vegas and Reno metro areas, there are no cities or towns greater than 100,000 in population. 90% of the land in Nevada is owned by the federal government; most of the state is indeed empty. It doesn't take long to reach a spot were you are the only person within eyesight all the way to the horizon.
When you live in place like Pangnirtung Nunavut you let none of your hunts go to any waste. Using oil for for a small fire. Bones for tools and furs to help against the tundra.
Your also taught that animal have the just as strong as spirt as humans and they're not treated as lesser and to respect your hunt for helping feed your community.
As a kid my mom told me the Aurora Borealis represents our ancestors dancing in the sky that have passed on to the afterlife.
Very proud to come from a culture that used to have one of the smallest footprint of humans, by how they let nothing go to waste and would use snow as shelter, so they didnt have to destroy trees for shelters
I was surprised to see most of Portugal is nearly empty, but not Spain.
Thank you for the interesting video. I'd just like to add that
1. the red areas aren't empty, there are simply not human populations.
These areas are full of life, even more than in cities where humans allow only themselves and certain animals in cages on dead concrete.
and 2. it is NOT a "problem" that humans do not exist there, on the contrary.
I was actually delighted to learn that in so vast landscapes there are no or only few people.
Because those areas are too cold, too dry, too mountainous or too hot and humid (you need the combination of heat and humidity). In some parts of Canada (mainly the southern parts of the Canadian shield in Quebec and Ontario, and there are probably similar areas in Scandinavia), there is simply no soil, because it was all scraped away by the glaciers. Forests aren't a problem because they can be cut down, and politics and borders are a minor issue. By the way, with climate change, some parts of the world that are presently habitable will become uninhabitable, mainly because if it is too hot and humid, perspiration is no longer effective at cooling people down.
The Continental divide i believe has an inside.
Try more of: which areas has been mostly nuclear BLASTED (reset)
That font needs to calm down
This sounds like an intense Realifelore video.
I guess india is only top 10 big countries by area to be entirely red free. We have put ppl on mountains and in desert as well.
It just shows how flexible ppl are and how beautiful hospitable our land is.
A LOT of the land in North America that was red is the Great Plains, which is mostly agricultural.
Correct, it is the Worlds bread basket as Ukraine is/was (war and all) considered the Worlds other bread basket. The problem with the plains is a mix of weather and location. Tornados in the spring and fall, frigid cold winters and several hours, if not days away from any shoreline. It was a tougher area to live in back in the old days, a lot easier now with more modern irrigation and technology, but being a less desirable part of the country to live in from hundreds of years ago made the population in that part of the country slow growing.
People live where they are because they have a reason. If the area is agriculturally productive - it has the weather or at least good water sources it will be inhabited by a significant spread-out population. The sea is a source of food so coasts will frequently populated even without good agricultural land but still need basics.
Cities can exist outside those area if they are a trade hub or have some important resource nearby.
Europe is not empty because most of it supports agriculture. When we go east of Europethen climate becomes worse and from certain point agriculture can't be sustainable due to poor soils, low rain, cold and bad logistics. The major Siberian cities are mostly located where the trans-Siberia railway crosses major navigable rivers so they can serve as a resource extraction and processing hubs.
Same with China from east to west - at a certain point it becomes a desert without many reasons to be there
HOWDY from a tiny town in the middle of the Amazon! Can confirm that everything is red here.
The interior of Greenland is entitely uninhabited, as is its northern and southeastern coast. Literally zero people.
This is a facts why people are choosing to live in. Based on topography, weather, landscape and business conditions
That means those places are unexplored
Is this video meant seriously? Anyone who paid attention for five minutes in Geography class already knows why those regions are sparsely populated.
2:40 Greenland melted and Australia became an archipelago
I live were it's about 2/3 per 2km but my house and land isn't that big haha
According to the thumbnail I'm nobody 😂
Protecting nature and wildlife
He just wiped out RLL's entire backlog in one sweep
As the mean population density of the whole planet is
Nobody is an absolute term and a bit strong. Reason for population distribution is pretty self explanatory unless you are under 5
10:00 heh, I live in Altenburg. Ja, heir only old people left.
That awkward moment when the author painted red the place YOU LIVE 😅
To save you 11 minutes: Inhospitable environment that makes it hard to develop any sort of infrastructure, and devoid of much natural resources.
TLDW; too cold, too hot, too mountainous, Too much jungle
Brother I LIVE in one of the red places
Cool! Which one?
Water. Accessibility. A way to earn a living. Got it.
Madeira? North!
I evidently live in a red zone that you claim that nobody lives here. What am I, chopped liver. I live in Montana and we just passed a Million people in population.😊
Leroy Otter (born 3rd May 1942), is a former Gouverneur of Idaho, for 12 years, until the term stopped him!
Why these family names are written equally, ... I do not know the reasons!
° "Butch" is a member of the Republican Parties, and of the Roman Catholic Church.
° I am neither member in a political party, nor in a religion.
Otter-"Marder" e. g. hermelines
Otter-snakes e. g. cobras
Otto e. g. "the [male] main heritage receiver" = the eldest son of ...
the Cascadia Independence Movement "some" want independence, from the USA, and from Canada!
the Greater Idaho Movement "some" want Western Oregon, to be absorbed into Idaho!
the Jefferson State Movement "some" from each WA; OR; CA; want to create Jefferson State!
Portland could be a city state, and therefore split up from Oregon!
° This situation is weird!
Happy Pentecoste! [= "the 50th Day" (since Easter Sunday)]
The Ultimate Diss of RealLifeLore
"No People"
Desserts, cold climates and unproductive arrabke land.
me - a labradorian seeing this video "i guess im not people" :c
Hmmmm too cold an, too hot and lots of spiders
Because its eitger desert, tundra, jungle or rocky land not good for farming.
Nice
Europe have geographic advantage
1. Too cold
2. Too hot
3. Too dry
4. Too wet
and .Australia..way to many kangaroos, camels and rabbits..........and a whole bunch of weird insects, etc...people are great tho....love the accent
Empty Of People -a no !
Too hot, too cold or rainforests. Saved you 11mins
or Communists and Mooslums.....
Real Life Lore: Why is most of Namibia empty? *Proceeds to make a 20 minute video about it*
General Knowledge: A desert is not suitable for human habitation. Thanks, bye bye.
Collectivists want to live in collectivists. Most humans are collectivists. Simple as
Reason is not enough peoples
Bro you took all the real life lores content
I live in red!!
Wonder why Saudi Arabia is not that empty I mean it’s a desert!
I live in a red zone, and still there are people everywhere here! The world is overpopulated and no billionaire is going to change my opinion 😒
The planet SHOULD be mostly empty of humans. We are collectively an apex predator, of which very few can exist in any ecosystem relative to the biomass of the herbivores and plants etc.
a college professor once said that we have continually raised the ceiling of capacity many times over the centuries, technically yes the planet shouldn't have so many people, that was true in the early hunter gatherer age