@infobeautiful

ah, now i think i understand that old 'ground war in asia' nugget.

@infobeautiful re: this viz type
I get the advantage over pie charts that small fractions are more legible in this than very thin slices, but why use irregular polygons in a circle? This makes them very hard to compare without labels and then you're almost down to a fancy looking table with sub totals.

Why not use a tree map instead?

@infobeautiful
Nope. This ignores everyone who lives in countries with less than 20 million people, and there are a lot of those.