August 31, 201610 yr comment_877634 Basically, it "bubbles" the countries by their different variables. It's about what you'd expect, but to me the biggest surprise was just how weightless Russia really is in all these dimensions. http://metrocosm.com/how-we-share-the-world/ Report
September 1, 201610 yr comment_877694 This is a really fun map. What would be cooler is if they could show the maps for different points of time. Say in 5-10 year intervals for the last 30-40 years. Report
September 1, 201610 yr comment_877713 Venezuela likely has the biggest debt. Prob worst in all economic factors... Well, not so bad, really on the map, but in reality... Report
September 1, 201610 yr comment_877715 The map seems to think that Sri Lanka is a part of India Or maybe we have too similar indicators, though last time I checked, their HDI was much better than us Cool map! Report
September 1, 201610 yr Author comment_877721 The map seems to think that Sri Lanka is a part of India Or maybe we have too similar indicators, though last time I checked, their HDI was much better than us Cool map! It counts it separately, if you hoover over ta country with the mouse, it gives you the exact values in a popup. Report
September 1, 201610 yr comment_877773 I like maps Hilarious how Luxembourg blows up on the final map, I lol'd Report
September 1, 201610 yr Author comment_877775 It's also crazy how there are almost as many billionaires in friggin Taiwan than they are in Japan. I thought there would be way more in the latter. Report
September 1, 201610 yr comment_877786 seeing as they use a currency that is x100 in numerical value as dollar/euro, they might think they are a billionaire and stop early Report
September 1, 201610 yr comment_877787 Venezuela likely has the biggest debt. Prob worst in all economic factors...Well, not so bad, really on the map, but in reality... Not in absolute numbers... but has got a very bad debt relative to GDP. Report
Basically, it "bubbles" the countries by their different variables. It's about what you'd expect, but to me the biggest surprise was just how weightless Russia really is in all these dimensions.
http://metrocosm.com/how-we-share-the-world/