Fitting The World Population Into Australia

[All Seeing Eye]

World Population = 6,706,993,152

Area of Australia = 7,617,930 sq km

7,617,930 sq km divided by 6,706,993,152 = 0.00113 sq km

0.00113 sq km is equivalent to 12,163 sq feet.

Is this correct??

So would each Human in the world have 12,163 sq feet of land each with which to build a house on?

How large on average is a house area wise in sq feet?

 

[DiSiLLUSiON]

Why are you taking someone's offhand remark seriously?

I'll humor you with my usually incorrect math:

All everybody needs is a room with a bed, a chair, a desk, a closet, a little kitchen with a gas pit, a shower, a washing machine, a refrigerator and a toilet. That can fit in 50m2.

As of 7-01-2009, the world's population is estimated to be 6,845,146,634 people. 6,845,146,634 * 50m2 = 342,257,331,700 m2 = 342,257,332 km2 that's needed by that amount of people, at the minimum.

Australia = 7,686,850 km2. Which is quite a bit smaller then what's needed. However, assuming the ground supports it, you can simply build skyscrapers. The Burj Dubai has 160 inhabitable floors (more if you count the non-inhabitable ones). So if we take 100 floors, you'd have quite a nice margin for support structures and the space needed around them and such, I think.

7,686,850 km2 * 100 floors = 768,685,000 km2. Which is double the 342,257,332 km2 needed by all those people.

Theoretically, I think it'll be possible. Practically, however, no.

You have your answer. Now give me mine.

 

[Scout101]

Other than proof that calculators work, what's the point? Is there discussion to go with this?

Why would this idea actually ever come up (ie. what's the point?) Imagine you'd also have to subtract all the land area that is uninhabitable, deserts, rivers, mountainsides, etc. And then you'd have to be willfully ignorant to the fact that humans have invented the capability to build more than single-story strutures, and would prefer to live on the 2nd floor of a nice area rather than a single-level home in the center of the desert, etc...

 

[Zulu Romeo]

The real question however is this: who do we dump onto Tasmania?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Other than proof that calculators work, what's the point?

The point is that someone in another thread said the world is overpopulated and the Earth cannot sustain the current population.
What i'm trying to look at is how small of an area could people live, and live comfortably and therefore how much land area is there left in the world to grow food and not only that allow wildlife to flourish.

Is there discussion to go with this?

Well it's certainly more interesting and much more discussion worthy than "who's you favourite poster" or "who do you have a crush on".

 

[SPOCKED]

Why are you taking someone's offhand remark seriously?

Other than proof that calculators work, what's the point? Is there discussion to go with this?

uuuh, I don't get the problem. He can't post this question??

 

[Rii]

The land used directly by humans for habitation ranks fairly low on the list of factors limiting the sustainability of the the global population.

 

[backstept]

in earth science in 10th grade we calculated that the world's population could fit in Texas with about a classroom sized area for each person

 

[SPOCKED]

in earth science in 10th grade we calculated that the world's population could fit in Texas with about a classroom sized area for each person

The world's population would have to check with Crusher Bunny first

 

[DiSiLLUSiON]

uuuh, I don't get the problem. He can't post this question??

That's not what I meant to insinuate; if it reads like that, my apologies.

 

[tharpdevenport]

You're also forgetting parks, grocery stores, parkin space, roads, streets, entertainment (theaters, amusement parks, so forth); city works like electricity, water, garbage. Speaking of garbage, a landfill.
A recycling center, police station, jail, businesses to employ people, banks, and more.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

in earth science in 10th grade we calculated that the world's population could fit in Texas with about a classroom sized area for each person

The world's population would have to check with Crusher Bunny first

She probably wouldn't approve.

 

[trampledamage]

I like this idea! Either Australia or Texas will do. I'll just not turn up on leaving day and enjoy the peace and quiet after you all go

 

[RoJoHen]

You're also forgetting parks, grocery stores, parkin space, roads, streets, entertainment (theaters, amusement parks, so forth); city works like electricity, water, garbage. Speaking of garbage, a landfill.
A recycling center, police station, jail, businesses to employ people, banks, and more.

Yeah, people might be able to physically occupy the space, but how are they going to survive? Does everyone have to commute to another continent for work in the morning?

 

[All Seeing Eye]

You're also forgetting parks, grocery stores, parkin space, roads, streets, entertainment (theaters, amusement parks, so forth); city works like electricity, water, garbage. Speaking of garbage, a landfill.
A recycling center, police station, jail, businesses to employ people, banks, and more.

Yeah, people might be able to physically occupy the space, but how are they going to survive? Does everyone have to commute to another continent for work in the morning?

Well the thing is, as someone mentioned before we have such things as sky scrapers this day and age. So if everyone in the world can fit into Australia and own their own house with garden then if instead of a house and garden huge enormous skyscrapers were built then everyone could fit into Australia easily and there'd be tons of room for amenities, parks, roads, factories and recycling plants etc Although instead of roads i'd instead go for a more futuristic mode of transportation such as a vast monorail network throughout the country..... who needs roads!

The rest of the world would be occupied by farmers.

On another note, the tallest building in the world is 137 stories high. So if a building is built 137 stories high and with 48,956,154 flats per story then the world could be fitted into one building.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Not everybody wants to live in a sky scraper. And if one comes down, like from a terrorist strike, you would lose a shit load of people, and in order to pack the world into it and leave farm land (NOT enough land to feed the whole world, in Australia), that would mean the skyscapers would have to be tightly packed, so if one falls, it'll hit another.


The idea is just beyond silly.

 

[RoJoHen]

Just make one GIANT skyscraper that takes up the whole country.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Just make one GIANT skyscraper that takes up the whole country.

Yeh I edited my post about that before you replied.

Not everybody wants to live in a sky scraper. And if one comes down, like from a terrorist strike, you would lose a shit load of people, and in order to pack the world into it and leave farm land (NOT enough land to feed the whole world, in Australia), that would mean the skyscapers would have to be tightly packed, so if one falls, it'll hit another.


The idea is just beyond silly.

A terrorist strike? everyone will be living in the same country. What would people be fighting over?
All farmland would be locate "outside" of Australia as I have already mentioned.

This is all completely undoable of course and would be an impossible thing to achieve but it's just something to contemplate.

On another note, pyramid shaped skyscrapers wouldn't fall.

 

[Hermiod]

Nerd question - wouldn't the additional weight of 6 billion humans plus the materials necessary to construct houses for them plus the weight of the gigantic amount of food that would need to be shipped to Australia every day cause the entire land mass to become dangerously unstable ?

 

[RoJoHen]

Nerd question - wouldn't the additional weight of 6 billion humans plus the materials necessary to construct houses for them plus the weight of the gigantic amount of food that would need to be shipped to Australia every day cause the entire land mass to become dangerously unstable ?

Maybe that's what really happened to Atlantis. They built too much stuff and made the island too heavy, so it sank.