Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The map above shows which countries the US has a trade surplus in goods (both manufactured and non-manufactured commodities) with and which ones it has a trade deficit.
The data is for the 11 months up to Nov 2024 and comes from the US census FT900 report.
However, it should be noted that the data is for good only. The US actually has a slight trade surplus in services, but a very large trade deficit in goods.
Here is the full data by country:
The map above shows each US state’s international trade surplus or deficit (or balance of trade) in goods per capita for the 11 months ending November 2024.
This includes both Manufactured Commodities and Non-Manufactured Commodities.
States in blue have a trade surplus in goods while those in red have a trade deficit.
The map above shows the most important country of origin for each state’s imports.
As you can see Canada, China and Mexico are the big 3, all of which have been threatened with Tariffs by the Trump government.
Top 3 Import Partners By Number of States:
The underlying data comes from Slave Voyages, which has more detailed maps, from the Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade a couple of which you can see below:
Here’s a detailed summary of each slave trade mentioned:
It comes from this report: Ocean rogue waves and their phase space dynamics in the limit of a linear interference model. (Birkholz, S. et al. Ocean rogue waves and their phase space dynamics in the limit of a linear interference model. Sci. Rep. 6, 35207; doi: 10.1038/srep35207 (2016))
More about them:
The map above was created using Google Earth images, downloaded by reddit user AbleSomewhere4549 and shred on this reddit post.
Here’s what he says about them and the images below:
From the map:
Cats may be highly independent creatures, but their language is quite similar throughout the world.
The majority of cat sounds begin with an ‘m,’ including the familiar Meow (Australia, Kenya and Micronesia, to name but a few).
There’s Miau in Nicaragua, Myaco in Nepal, and Miu Miu in Bangladesh.
True to form, however, some felines will just do their own thing, including those in North and South Korea (Yaong) and Malaysia (Ngiau).
Here are the sounds in various languages around the world according to Language Pro.
Also see: Dog Bark Sounds: How Different Countries & Languages Represent Dog Sounds in Words
How do you say it?
