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Number of Prisoners Per 100,000 People Around The World

Last Updated: March 28, 2023 1 Comment

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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 2024: Presidents, Monarchies & More

Last Updated: October 9, 2024 Leave a Comment

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Map created by Wikimedia user Newfraferz87The 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 9 Comments

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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: January 20, 2026 1 Comment

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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 4 Comments

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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

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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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North American Maps for Curious Minds

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 1 Comment

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I’m very please to announce that The Maps for Curious Minds series is back—with 100 vivid infographic maps that transform the way we understand the cultural and historical wonders of North America.

North American Maps for Curious Minds was written by Matthew Bucklan and Victor Cizek and illustrated by Jack Dunnington with a foreword by me (Ian Wright).

Find out the answers to the following questions:

Where can you find the world’s tallest and steepest roller coasters?
Who is the highest-paid public employee in each state?
Where can you visit the world’s largest island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island?
Where can you find the world’s biggest geode?
Where can you find the world’s oldest, tallest, and largest trees?

and many, many more.

You can find out more about the book from The Experiment here.

And if you’d like to get your own copy, you can do so from the following stores:

200 Years Of Us Population Growth In 2 Minutes

Last Updated: January 15, 2026 13 Comments

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Map from CreatingData.us (now sadly offline)The animated map above shows the growth of US population density from 1790-2010 (you can see a video version below).

In 1790, population density was just 4.5 people per sq. mile. But by 2010 it had grown to 87.4 people per sq. mile over a much larger area.

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The Incredible Journey of An Arctic Fox Who Walked From Norway to Canada in 2018

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 Leave a Comment

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Map created by Eva Fuglei & Arnaud Tarroux via Research Gate

The map above shows the incredible journey of one arctic fox in 2018. Over the course of just a few months she walked up to 155km per day all the way from Svalbard (a Norwegian archipelago) to Canada’s Ellesmere Island via Greenland.

You can read the full story here. And see a picture of the fox here.

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A World Map Centered on Argentina

Last Updated: March 3, 2023 6 Comments

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Map created by CDS_Virtual_Effects

Ever wondered, what would a world map look like if it were centered on Argentina? Well wonder no more. Just have a look at the map above. Of course everything else is incredibly distorted because of the Mercator projection used.

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