Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above looks at whether or not the majority of your country’s population is born in the 20th or 21st centuries as of January 1st, 2025.
The data is based on Median age data from the CIA Worldfact book.
Currently 56 countries & territories have a majority of people born this century, while 173 still have more people born in the 20th century.
You can see the full data, and when a country can expect to become majority born in the 21st century below:
Reddit user LustfulBellyButton, created a super detailed timeline of the various important events in Brazilian history based off the video and maps above:
The video above is Ollie Bye’s amazing tour de force video of The History of the World: Every Year.
As he describes it: “Since 200,000 BCE, humanity has spread around globe and enacted huge change upon the planet. This video shows every year of that story, right from the beginning.”
I had fun playing around with it and sped it up by 18x it’s normal speed so you can watch the whole thing in 60 seconds (see below).
However, if you actually want to see anything you’re better off watching the full version above.
The map above shows the share of bankruptcies in each country that can be traced back to either direct medical costs and/or the costs related to lost income from health related problems.
Here’s more about the sources of the stats for each country:
And despite having lived in the UK for 15 years I’ve never heard of the top 2 results: “knock down ginger” at 25%, and “knock a door run” at 21%.
Here are the results broken down by age, region and class.
Find out why the two can’t coexist:
It is based claim of historian Stuart Laycock from his book All the Countries We’ve Ever Invaded: And the Few We Never Got Round To, who states that: “Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, we’ve invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171.”
This means that only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain, which Statista lists as:
The map above is a look at how Google could update Google Maps if Nigel Farage wins the next UK election and decided to try and rename the Irish Sea to the English Sea.
However, as far I know neither Farage or Reform UK have any plans to rename the Irish Sea. Nor does Google have any plans to do the same.
And while I shouldn’t have to say this it is intended as parody only and not a serious plan.
The map above shows the locations of Nazi Germany’s concentration & death camps between 1941 and 1944.
From the maps author:
The map shows key German concentration and death camps from 1941 to 1944, marked with red and black squares. It covers Nazi Germany and occupied territories, including present-day Poland and Austria.
Major camps like Auschwitz (1940), Dachau (1933), Treblinka (1942), and Bergen-Belsen (1940) are labeled with their founding years. The map highlights the scale of the Nazi camp system during World War II.
During the Holocaust’s Final Solution, Nazi Germany established six extermination camps to carry out the systematic genocide of the Jews in territories under its control.
All of these camps were situated in the General Government area of occupied Poland—except for Chelmno, which was located in the Reichsgau Wartheland area of German-occupied Poland to better hide their crimes.
Here is a list of the death camp locations.