Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows the 102 US counties that had a lower life expectancy in 2019 compared to North Korea’s.
According to the WHO North Korea’s life expectancy at birth was 72.6 years.
In that same year the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimated that the following 102 counties had a lower life expectancy:
What’s shocking is how different the results are between states, for example all of Hawaii and most of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New York and New Jersey all have life expectancies over 80.
The map above shows which foreign country is closest depending on where you are in the United States.
The countries are:
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The map above shows the number of Highrise buildings as defined as being over 50 Meters (164 Feet) by US State. The data comes from skyscraperpage.com, but is from 2021, so might be somewhat out of date.
Amazingly, California has fewer than either Illinois, Florida or New York despite being by far the most populous state.
Using their more up-to-date data from 2024, here are all US cities with at least 1 Highrise building.
However, note they now define a Highreise as: “A highrise is a multi-floored building of at least 12 stories or 35 meters in height (115 feet).”
I’ve also calculated the number of Highrises per million people.
The map above shows where people think Northern California begins based off where they live, either Redding, Red Bluff or Merced. As you move further south more of the state seems north to you.
What do you think?
Here’s a breakdown of the key elements:
The map above looks at what would have happened in the famous 2000 US Presidential Election if each state awarded it’s electors proportionally rather than winner takes all (with a few exceptions).
In reality, George W. Bush won the election with 271 electoral votes to Gore’s 266 despite losing the popular vote by over 500,000 people.
However, under this scenario Gore would have won 271 electoral college votes, Bush would have own 261 and Ralf Nader would have received 6.
You can read more about the 2000 US Presidential Election here.
What do you think? Would this system would be better than the current one?
The map above shows which US counties had an Asian population of 10% or above in the last US census of 2020.
Here are the list of counties with the corresponding % of residents who declared their race as being Asian only.