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Chances of being born in each continent (Fixed by Birth Rate)
Fixed by Birth Rate in base of u/timroAlabamasis post
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I was born in New Zealand which according to this map is impossible. What really bothers me after reading your map OP is that my work van broke down last week and today I was quoted $1,500 to get it repaired. I am fucked if I am going to pay for this if I donāt even actually exist.
A real r/MapsWithoutNZ moment, i made it based on this post, because i saw the numbers and it seemed off, so i checked the data and fixed it, but didn't fix New Zealand missing, because i didn't even notice, sorry for denying your existence!! You can send them this map as proof that you aren't real
As someone born in Antarctica I agree
My man is literally one in 11
New Zealand is part of Oceania so even if it doesn't show NZ it includes NZ
What's New Zealand is that close to the old Zealand
If you donāt exist then you donāt actually need to pay anything. Itās a good thing.
I was really lucky to be born in South America, with the low probability that there is. I'm thankful.
You guys have to adjust this by the birth rates in the year you were born, which may differ significantly.
That said, on some level, you could be only born as you.
But I don't want to get philosophical in this sub.
Yeah, this isn't really any one individuals chance of being born here or there. This is share of new births by continent.
Can't really make the person without the specific parents. The chance of me having been born in Asia, for example, is much lower than this, because my parents never lived in Asia.
Yep, me too, i was born in Argentina. But in 2024, we had around 450,000 births out of more than 130 million worldwide, so less than 0.4% of global births happened in Argentina. Even if someone was born today in South America, the chance of them being from Argentina is only about 7%
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Would be curious to see this broken down by countries, or at least the top 10 and bottom 10.
You can check it in this wikipedia article, pretty similar to population numbers, but countries like Japan, which is rank 11 in population, is ranked 39th on births, below countries like Somalia, which has just 18 million population and is ranked 67th in population
Just look up population by country.. Atleast the top and bottom ten should be pretty equal to that.
Yeah but not quite. For example if I'm not mistaken India and China despite having almost the same population have different number of births with India being more than double that of China.
And Nigeria is almost the same as China š
. 4% chance to be born with all the deadliest animals lol
Iād much prefer come across a snake than a bear in the wild
Wear a bell and you won't surprise a bear. Idk about snakes though, these guys hide in weird places!
Snakes are mostly scared of you, unless you step on it they will slither away. The videos Iāve seen of bears just chilling in suburban areas, in front of peopleās homes scares me
I watched the documentary Anaconda and it seemed to disagree.
Luckily no anacondas in Australia
China and India just be its own percentages tbh.
40% out of that 47% in Asia is likely just them two.
Not really.
Pakistan+Indonesia is already more than China. China is not carrying as much births in Asia as you may think.
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It's based on births, not directly based on population, yes, population size will affect A LOT, but Africa doesn't even have 1/3 of Asia's population, yet it has almost the same births each year as Asia, or you could see it the other way around, if Asians had a fertility rate of 2.1 births per woman, not even a fertility rate of 6 births per woman in Africa would be enough to get to Asia's numbers, but if it keeps going, it will eventually catch up
What the fertility rate in Asia now?
About 1.8, pulled down mostly by east asia
This makes me realize how incredibly lucky I've been in terms of my "respawn" coordinates. Both in time and space.
"Re"-spawn??
I m so glad I got to be a Western Europeanšš
Me crying in Latin AmericaĀ
Me crying in fucking Africa
Same
what year is this?
Letās get you to bed grandpa
Last year of data available, most 2023/2024, if you want a detailed list, Wikipedia has one
Eastern Europe but still better than about 85-90% of the world, so thankful.
I pretty much won the lottery š³š“
Huh, that's interesting. Didn't realise North American birth rate was lower than Europe's. I thought it was the other way around given how big USA population is.
NA's birth rates are higher but Europe has larger population
Was born in Europe, Eastern Europe, in the fucking poorest country on the European continent. My luck is amazing.
Crazy how many babies they have in Africa
38.3%er here. Guess I wasn't the 1 in a million my mom always told me I was.Ā
When I was born, Libya had only around 4 million population, I guess I got really really lucky/unlucky
Feeling very lucky rn šŗšø
Right? Free basic healthcare, and free education for everyone! ...
Most would pay infinite amounts of money to be able to get access to American education and wages.
infinite amounts of money to be able to get access to American education
That about sums up education in America.
Community college is always a thing if you want to go to college for the cheap
If you exclude the top 1% of earners the average income in the US drops significantly, more than most european countries.
So, you are either very rich or it's not worth it compared to european countries.
Same for education, if you exclude renowned expensive universities, US education is quite bad, and dangerous.
Thatās why we have median income as a concept which still puts the US way ahead of almost every country
You have to consider the prices of groceries, rent, utilities, healthcare, etc... as well.
The US is "way ahead of almost every country" only if those countries are second or third world.
Yes it is
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_capita_income
On a purchasing power basis only Luxembourg beats the US
We have higher median incomes after accounting for all of those expenses than most other countries in the world.
American education is not the only high quality education existing in the world. We have a lot of excellent public education in Europe.
High wages are also due to very low taxation compared to eu, but I agree that it's not the only reason
Im bouta make that statistic in antartica wrong
It's already wrong
11 people have been born in Antarctica
As i mentioned in another comment, this is just for last year of statistic available, most from 2023/2024, as we have the data for antarctica that no one was born in the last couple of years, it's 0
Well the data is meaningless. You're just using two random arbitrary years
It is the most recent data available, 2025 isn't over yet, what would be a non-arbitrary year? 1453?
Why pick two years?
Because some countries don't have the data available for 2024, even most of the data from 2023 is estimations from World Population Prospects 2024Ā of theĀ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and between 2023 and 2024, not much changed in terms of births by country/continent at maximum you would see a deviation of 1% of the total data, no data is perfect, we don't have every single birth documented in every part of the world, so a combination of estimations and last data available is what i had to use
I think picking the 2 previous years as an estimation of where new kids are born isnt a terrible idea
This map isn't the odds where someone would be born over all time
And while Antarctica wouldn't be 0 if you did for all time it would be rapidly approaching zero to such an extent it's practically 0
Im bouta
Funny enough I was born in Asia but I am all white in general.
The veil of ignorance isn't real, it's a thought experiment. You are a biological entity created by your parents: a couple on the other side of the world in a country with a bigger fertility rate could not have created you. The probability that someone other than your unique mom and dad could have created you is 0%.
And people still think that whites are not a minority xd
This is babies born in 2024. The pecrentage of whites is much higher in the adult population. What this map shows is basically the future
In the future, definitely
The premise is flawed because it assumes that a soul exists and that they are randomly drawn from a bowl of souls like it was bingo
Whose chances are these?
The chances of being born in the continent you were born in is 100%.
I'm so glad to be born in India š /s
Sometimes I'm very sad because I was born in Brazil, then I realize that I could've been born in India instead of Brazil. So I'm OK with my situation š
Antarcticaās posting rookie numbers, come on people you can do better.
Checks out.š¤£
I lucked out
This makes MUCH more sense than the earlier maps that were getting posted. In fact over the next century, Africas % will increase annually as all other continents, minus maybe NA, decrease.
What if two scientists working in Antarctica becomes naughty ?
At least 11 children have been born in Antarctica. So it's not 0%, just lots and lots of decimal places :)
Incidentally Antarctica has an infant and childbirth mortality rate of 0%, so it's statistically the best continent to give birth in.
This makes me feel very lucky, despite all its problems North America is pretty great
Southern asians needs to hold their pp for sometime.
So am I among the 4.5 or the 47.5 since I was born in Babaeski?
Why 0 for Antarctica?
Thatās definitely wrong for North/South America, North America considerably larger population and slightly higher birth rates, how can you be more likely to be born in South America?
Maybe slightly older data? South America definitely used to be higher. Also could be maybe including Latin American data for South America and only US/CAN for north.
This is the chance of being born in 2025 with the very low birth rates the developed world has today. So for the redditors born in the 90s and 2000s saying I am thankful. The chance was way higher back when you were born.
Could somebody adjust it on the basis of how many children make it past a certain age, e.g. 10 yrs would be ideal
There is no chance of anyone being born elsewhere. We were not souls floating in space that randomly got into pieces of flesh inside of womanās bodies. Thereās nothing essential, eternal, ahistorical about us human beings. Our identities are entirely contingent.
Depressing
3.8% probability and I somehow ended up in North America
Jesus Christ š
There is no such thing as a 0% chance of being born in Antarctica, noting is impossible
It's definitely less than 0.05%, which rounds down to 0 since this map only uses 1 decimal place.
Would be interested to know the chances of being born in a rich country. Looks like 10%?
This map is for 2024 births as rich countries birth rates have dropped insanely.
I won the lottery! š±š°
Wow, do the 11 people born in Antarctica mean nothing to you?
It uses the most recent data from 2023/2024. The last Antarctican birth was in 1985.
There has been a birth in Antarctica so 0% is not correct
the thing only goes to the first decimal :)
Which is why it should be >0%
That's not how rounding works
It's not rounding.
The map is literally false
Things that have happened can still have a 0% probability.
By definition they can't.
All the other entries have a decimal point
Antarctica should be <0.1%
All of the other entries have a decimal point because the chance of being born on one of those continents is large enough to be meaningfully represented with multiple significant figures. Those are obviously rounded as well.
<0.1% is a valid and probably more intuitive way to represent the data, but 0% is not incorrect.
Yes it is.
Because the chances are not 0%
If I asked you the chances of me flipping a quarter 50 billion times and having them all land on heads and you say the chance is 0% you are wrong.
You are factually incorrect. It is a false statement. You are wrong
The words you're saying right now are wrong
When you represent data, you have to decide on how many decimal places to round it to. There is no reasonable number of decimal places for which the probability of someone being born in Antarctica does not simply round to 0. You can throw in some non-significant figures if it makes you feel better and call it 0.0% or perhaps 0.0000%, but it's a whole lot easier for everyone involved to just say 0.
That's not how statistics work š
You're simply incorrect. A rounded probability of 0% does not mean that something is literally impossible. What is 0.1 rounded to the nearest integer?
Why are you rounding 0.1 and not all the other numbers?
Why does Antarctica have to be an integer but no other continent does?
0% is factually incorrect
All of the numbers are rounded. Do you think all the other probabilities just happened to land on exactly one decimal place? The entire graphic is rounded to one decimal place, with non-significant figures such as the trailing 0 in 0.0% dropped.
It doesnāt count before 2023
Nobody was born in antarctica after or during 2023
And 2024.
He picked 2 years of meaningless data š
What why is it meaningless?
This is your chance of being born at each place by these statistics silly
It's for the last year available for each country, most are in 2023/2024, and there wasn't any birth in Antarctica, so 0% for this map
This map is dump
Why?
Thank goodness, the original map was complete bs
Was that just based on population?
Yep, it was just a basic population map.
This one takes into account population and both birth rate I guess?what's the formula though
It's births by continent as total share of Births worldwide as of last year, so, it's estimated that Oceania had about 580k births in 2023, out of the total estimated 132 Million Births, it is 0.44%, rounded down to 0.4%
This one adds up to 100% š
This map is still wrong. It assumes youāll be born a human and on earth.
What do you mean by āyouā