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England and Wales East/West Divide By Population

Last Updated: May 17, 2023 Leave a Comment

England and Wales East/West Divide By Population

Map crated by Reddit user u/willtkred

The map above is the companion to England’s North/South Divide Based Only On Population, expect this time splitting the England and Wales East/West rather than North/South based on 2021 census numbers on official county borders.

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England’s North/South Divide Based Only On Population

Last Updated: May 17, 2023 Leave a Comment

England's North/South Divide Based Only On Population

Map created by reddit user u/willtkred

The map above show’s England’s North South divide based solely on where 50% of the population live based on the 2021 census using official county border.

The blue areas has 50.25% of the population or 28.3 million people and the red areas have 49.75% of the population or 28.1 million people.

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19 World Maps In The Style of Famous Artists

Last Updated: June 30, 2023 7 Comments

The 19 maps below were all created by AI image tool Midjourney. I asked it to create a world map in the style of each artist and here’s what it came up with:

1. Gustav Klimt

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Mass Shootings In The US Between 2009 and March 2023

Last Updated: March 30, 2023 3 Comments

Mass Shootings In The US Between 2009 and March 2023

Map created by reddit user u/flyingcatwithhorns

The map above shows the location and relative severity of each of the mass shooting incidents in the US between 2009 and 28 March 2023.

A mass shooting is defined as any incident in which four or more people are shot and killed.

Since 2009, there have been 306 mass shootings, resulting in 1,710 people shot and killed and 1,087 people shot and wounded.

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Number of Prisoners Per 100,000 People Around The World

Last Updated: March 28, 2023 1 Comment

Number of Prisoners Per 100,000 People Around The World

Map created by @theWorldMaps

The map above shows the number of prisoners in each country around the world per 100,000 people. The data comes from The thirteenth edition of the World Prison Population List for October 2021.

The United States is the outlier at the high-end with 629 prisoners per 100,000 people or 0.629% of Americans are in prison t any given moment. At the other extreme is San Marino which has 0 prisoners per 100,000 people.

The map above doesn’t actually seem to use the latest data available which is as follows:

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Systems of Government List 2023: Presidents, Monarchies & More

Last Updated: March 22, 2023 Leave a Comment

Systems of Government of Map

Map created by Wikimedia user Newfraferz87

The map above shows the systems of government used by each country around the world in 2023. These include the following:

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Estimated European Black Population By Country In 2020

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 5 Comments

Estimated European Black Population By Country

Map created by reddit user u/Crimson_Vol

The map above shows the estimated share of the black population of each European country in 2020. However, the data is not without it’s controversies. Here’s how the results were arrived at:

Estimation Methods Countries with ethnic census (Russia, Ukraine, UK, Ireland) make it straight forwards by merely providing a direct percentage. Another set of countries provide a “migration background” estimate which classifies persons with even one sub-Saharan born grandparent as having “migrant background”, this also provides a near exact ethnic estimate (Germany, Scandinavia, Netherlands, Austria and some Eastern European states).

Now, using the “exact” proportion of sub-Saharan and Caribbean (in the case of Netherlands/UK) descended
blacks to “country of birth” sub-Saharan migrants in the aforementioned countries, we are able to extrapolate a percentage to their neighbours (Italy, Spain, France, Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Czechia, and Hungary) based on the Number of Sub-Saharan born individuals in these respective countries.

This provides a near exact estimate with minimal margin of error of the black population in said countries which only have data on individuals who are foreign born or have foreign citizenship.

Sources for the data: Sources and latest available data: UK Census (2011), destatis.de (2019), Eurostat (2019), Russian Registrar (2019), dmsu.gov.ua (2019), scb.se (2019), Irish Census (2016), demo.istat.it (2019), opendata.cbs.nl (2019), ssb.no (2019), statbank.dk (2020), stat.fi (2019), migracje.gov.pl (2018) and ine.es (2019).

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Percentage of People That Think Their Country Has Benefited From Being In The EU

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 1 Comment


Map created by Landgeist

The map above shows what percentage of people in each EU member state think that the EU has benefited their country. As Landgesit explains:

The exact question in the survey was: “Taking everything into account, would you say that (OUR COUNTRY) has on balance benefited or not from being a member of the EU?”. People could answer this question with “Benefited”, “Not benefited” or “Don’t know”.

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2022 Map Of Ukraine Showing Key Facts About The Country

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 3 Comments

Map created by VisualCapitalist.com designed by Nick Routley

The 2022 map above shows key facts about Ukraine.

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Population Growth In European Countries Between 1960 & 2020

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 2 Comments

Population Growth In European Countries Between 1960 & 2020

Map created by reddit user Lambda301

The map above shows the population increase (or decrease of various European countries between 1960 and 2020). Globally world population increased from 3.03 billion to 7.79 billion or a 157% increase.

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