Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not
see. (The Disappearance of Childhood, Neil Postman) In the
previous post I showed a map of the global distribution of
malnutrition among the youngest children. To complete this
picture, I used the same subnational Global Poverty Data from
SEDAC and combined the data about the proportion of children
with the total population (derived from the GPW database). Where
information was missing, I used information from the national-
level UN World Population Prospects to complete the data and
generated a grid of the global distribution of children on a
subnational level. The result of this is a new gridded cartogram
display of the world’s children (aged under 5) which shows each
grid cell resized according to the total number of children
living there (as in many world maps on this website, I use the
worldmapper colour scheme for the countries which makes the map
easier to read). The following map therefore gives every child
under the age of five the same am