Half of mankind lives in the areas indicated in white on the map above. (Source: Max Galka – metrocosm.com)
“25 percent of the world’s population do not have a classic address.”
According to Google, around 25 percent of humanity, i.e. around two billion people, either do not have a classic address in street and house number format, or they have an address that is very difficult to find.
Of course, Google has a technical solution for this. It might however be worthwhile to also consult the atlas of informality. I presume that the majority of the people without an address live in informal settlements. Numbers somehow coincide:
While [more than 60 percent of the world’s total population is now online](https://datareportal.com/reports/6-in-10-people-around-the-world-now-use-the-internet), the many people without a classic address, and those living in informal settlements, may not benefit yet from Google’s technical innovation.
