Great chart. Counter intuitive unless your intuition is of the highest order

You thought what was beeches?

Edit: just an attempt to badly superimpose the Union Jack over the map of the UK. Perhaps using it in portrait form (not sure what the correct vexillogical terminology is) would have worked better

Reckon my flannel shirts are all vintage

Pale yellow text on a white background is not the reader's friend

"Armed with the makeshift flotation device"

this is so important - anything that floats will make it heaps less likely that the rescuer will drown in this situation

Birth rate overcompensates for higher infant mortality. As infant mortality drops, birth rate drops and population growth slows.

Seriously check out a Hans Rosling video it will blow your mind.

Here's one to get you started https://youtu.be/hVimVzgtD6w

Strong correlation between low income and high infant mortality. Strong correlation between high infant mortality and high birth rates. Search YouTube for Hans Rosling ... Some incredible (and hopeful) videos on this sort of data

I didn't know, so I did a quick google. This link looked like it was on point: https://issafrica.org/iss-today/africa-is-losing-the-battle-against-extreme-poverty#:~:text=Bad%20governance%2C%20corruption%20and%20high,inequality%20also%20drive%20up%20poverty.&text=Africa's%20high%20fertility%20rates%20mean,Africa's%20high%20population%20growth%20rate.

>Africa’s inability to reduce its high extreme poverty rate has been attributed to numerous factors. One is the over-reliance on natural resources for growth instead of agricultural and rural development, which characterises 85% of Africans’ livelihoods. The higher initial poverty levels coupled with low asset ownership and restricted access to public services also make it difficult for households to take advantage of growth. Bad governance, corruption and high-income inequality also drive up poverty. >Africa’s high fertility rates mean that economic growth rates translate into smaller per capita income increases. While the extreme poverty rate will likely fall, the number of poor people will rise due to Africa’s high population growth rate

A lot of those are correlated with per capita wealth / economic development.

Come to think of it, the data gaps correlate with much the same thing

Ok, do you mean why are there African countries with no data? Or why are African countries towards the unfavourable end of the reported data?

Africa is a continent

Edit: the world is now a better place, be excellent to each other

That choice of colour scale caused a measurable reduction in world happiness

I hope the Russians love their children too

That makes more sense, but the concept was poorly explained in the visualisation

What train of thought led you to this? No. I don't want to know

I hope you are right. I would both love more Terry Pratchett but also not want it other than on his terms

Edit: I've now read the article. Published =/= unpublished!!

What's that black thing on the sun? is it a random sun spot or something we should be worried about?

Why the downvote?

They really should standardise this into some sort of job-years statistic

2year project ... average job length 1.5 years. This creates 15,000 job-years or the same amount of work as 300-400 permanent jobs.

This could have been so good. Condenses the info of one of those two minute videos into one image. But lacks a bit of polish

But some pretty polished nothingtoseehereism delivery

We have more minor party representation, particularly in the senate where each state appoints 12 senators (6 every three years). Occasionally it requires one of the major parties to do a deal to form government - this often tempers the more extreme elements of the relevant major party. Overall I think our parliament is more diverse and representative of our population than it would be otherwise.

You could also make voting compulsory. Just sayin' :-)

That's progress. Coming from Australia ranked choice (or preferential as we call it) is the only system I have used. My jaw dropped when I learned the methods in place elsewhere.

There are different scales between the two different coloured circles. They do not appear to be directly comparable in size. Philippines has been rated as highest per capita emitter of mismanaged plastic. Presumably this relates in part to it's geography, lots of rivers, lots of coastline vs land mass.