Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows the share of world GDP for each continent in the world based on nominal exchange rates.
In total, World GDP was $117.165 Trillion $ USD. (Or $208 Trillion in PPP)
Below you can see data in PPP $ and maps and data based on UN Subregions.
The map above shows the IMF’s estimated US Government spending (Federal, State and Local) as share of GDP over the past 223 years.
Here’s the data for all years:
The map above shows the top 10 oil producing countries in 1939. Three big things stand out to me:
They explain that:
Support for remaining a Monarchy was strongest in:
The map above shows the most streamed English speaking artists in each country where Spotify publishes data in 2025. And fun fact 3 of the 7 are from my home province of Ontario!
Also for the UK, no British artists made the top 10, all were either Canadian or American.
Here is the most popular song based on YouTube views for each artist:
The map above shows the natural habitat of the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula). It has one of the most restricted natural habitats of any plant on Earth, and that’s the main reason why its total wild range is so small.
Here’s why:
The map above comes from diamond geezer’s wonderful post about the busiest national rail stations. Amazingly the top 12 stations in the UK are all in London, and most of them are on the central section of the Elizabeth Line.
The reason is quite simple: “Any interchange between tube and Crossrail [Elizabeth Line] counts as entering or exiting a National Rail station so some mighty distortions are skewing the numbers.”
Full list of all UK stations below with rankings (data comes from ORR here):
That small strip of land in north-eastern Afghanistan that separates Pakistan from Tajikistan is called the Wakhan Corridor.
More about it below:
The poster above titled: EQUAL RIGHTS FOR NEGROES !EVERYWHERE!, SELF DETERMINATION for the BLACK BELT, VOTE COMMUNIST was for the 1932 US election.
Ford who was running as Vice President, was the first African American in history to be included on a presidential ticket.
More about the election: