Better way to see statistics of The World Friday, April 06 2007
When I read world’s statistics such as population, economy etc, I got bored, but if it is showed graphically or interactively its encouraging and entertaining. Below are the few of those services...Have fun!
breathingearth is flash movie to see the real time data about birth/death rates, population, amount of CO2 emitted in each countries
Worldmapper is a mapping service to visually see the world's statistics information, the maps are sized based on the subject of interest. ie, maps are generated based on the what data we are viewing, below are few of the examples…
when looking at population looks like this:
see the population of India + China = half of the world's population
see how the western accounts for more than 90% of medicine export...
Child Labour: India has the highest number of child labourers, twice as many as China where the second highest population of child labourers lives. No children work in Japan
MORE MAPS...
miniature-earth – this site depicts a movie written by Donella Meadows. available for download ($5) , the site claiming that statistic data is only to see it as a tendency, and not as accurate
the movie theme is a ‘scaled down world of 100 people village’ and keeping the same proportion of present day.
few of those are...61 Asians, 12 Europeans, 8 North Americans, 13 Africans, 1 Oceania, 5 south Americans, 9 are disabled, 6 people owns 59% wealth of entire community, 7 are educated at secondary level, 12 have a computer, 3 have Internet connection, 1 adult has HIV
14 can't read, 30 have bank accounts, 47 live in urban area, 1 adult has HIV
18 live on/below 1$ a day income, 53 live on/below $2 a day income
Village is spending $1.12 for trillion military expenditure, only $100 Billion for development
If you have a small home, refrigerator, closet, bed then..
History - of - Religion
Leadership - and - War
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