Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The two maps here were created by The World Maps. The one above looks at percentage of people who believe in life after death around the world. Data comes from the World Values Survey conducted between 2017 and 2022.
The countries are color-coded according to the percentage range of people who hold this belief:
In this visualization, NASA instruments show the seasonal cycle of vegetation and the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
The colors represent different rates of population growth or decline, with green shades indicating growth and red shades indicating decline.
Here are a few key regions and states featured in the map:
The map above shows how much each European country was spending on it’s military (in Billions of USD) annually in 2021, the year before the outbreak of the Ukraine war.
The data comes from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
To put those numbers in some perspective the US Department of Defense’s budget in that same year was $870 billion and has since risen to $880 billion in 2024.
Below I’ve looked at the numbers in constant 2022 USD$ (which is why they are slightly different to the map above) for 2021 and 2023 and compared how much they’ve changed. Unsparingly, Ukraine has seen the biggest increase of 800%+.
Here’s a breakdown of what each map shows:
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?
The map above shows the contributors and beneficiaries of the European Union (EU) budget. It categorizes EU member states into two groups: those that contribute more to the EU budget than they receive (net contributors) and those that receive more from the EU budget than they contribute (net beneficiaries).
