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DESIGN: David McCandless
RESEARCH: David McCandless, Chris J Hall, Alexia Wdowski, Pearl Doughty White, Caroline Flynn, James Key (yes it was a lot of work!)
ADDITIONAL DESIGN: Matt Hancock, Joe Swainson
SOURCES: NationMaster.com, The CIA World FactBook, Wikipedia, FAO @ The UN, Press Reports
DATA: Explore in this Google doc
RESEARCH: David McCandless, Chris J Hall, Alexia Wdowski, Pearl Doughty White, Caroline Flynn, James Key (yes it was a lot of work!)
ADDITIONAL DESIGN: Matt Hancock, Joe Swainson
SOURCES: NationMaster.com, The CIA World FactBook, Wikipedia, FAO @ The UN, Press Reports
DATA: Explore in this Google doc
174 Comments
“Sweden – Nuclear power plants” Is that a joke? In 1980 they voted for a Torbjörn Fälldin for Prime Minister because he promised to close down the nuclear power plants! Since then it has been a back and forth and recently they finally seem to have realized that a clean power source is needed after all. In the meantime I have emigrated to California and do not follow it anymore.
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Sweden is also good at steel (not “metal”) like in SKF ball bearings.
Sweden produces a lot of beautiful women too. They emigrate to California.
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Norway, coffee drinkers? I have read that Sweden is the nation with the heaviest coffee consumption in the world. They have the best coffee too! Try Gevalia or Lövbergs Lila (from IKEA)! I do not know a single coffee brand from Norway.
Colombian Coffee is the finest in the world. But you had to pick cocaine…
cocaine is not an acomplishment, its not being the best at anything. But from the other comments im guessing its not the only questionable data you put in your chart.
Colombia has the number one coffee man, just saying.
ARGENTINA – HORSE MEAT? WHAT?
NAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.
Poland is missing! Please change that.
South Africa is the biggest producer of Gold, as well.
Hey ! why my island is not on this map ? you guys forget to put the reunion island :p
cannabis isn’t a crime, it’s nature
Khazakstan is #10 for wheat production, Australia beats them at #5 and presumably is better at stealing cars.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/agr_gra_whe_pro-agriculture-grains-wheat-production
You know its funny how my country the Czech Republic is good at beer drinkers. I just dont know how a country could be excited about that. But to be quite honest I think I would take beer drinkers any day over serial killers in the United States.
I find it interesting that Costa Rica is known for happiness. It is the only country that is good at an emotion. Every other country is either a product or a service.
I agree with Diana about the label for Colombia. It is not fair to label a country with negative connotation especially when they are also known for something that reflects positive trade like coffee. Yes, Columbia is fantastic at producing Cocaine but let us not forget Senior Juan Valdez!!!
no poland ?
Where’s Greece? C’mon, that’s a pretty big one to leave out.
Where is Greece’s statistic?
mexico’s first place in women’s obesity is only among oecd member countries (around 30), but not in the whole world. that title probably belongs to nauru or micronesia.
source:
http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/07/worlds-fattest-countries-forbeslife-cx_ls_0208worldfat_2.html
I guess having the most economic freedom should be a good thing, I would have been proud before moving back to this lawless city- Hong Kong!
Basically, the other side of economic freedom = little consumer rights and the Consumer Council is rubbish here!
There is a cost for everything!
so albania isnt a country for you guys? o.O
Singapore – Highest per capital execution rate.
Singapore – highest per capita execution rate
Great stuff guys a minor suggestion though – with the tabs at the bottom that tell us what the colours mean, is it possible to be able to click on them and have only that statistic shown? It would be easier to read/examine.
I,m a New Zealander. Half shell Mussels-wtf
You left out my country: Venezuela.
According to your data it’s best at: Happiness (nothing less)
The measure under which Costa Rica comes as number 1 (Happy Planet Index) is not really a measure of happiness exactly but a measure of happiness-versus-environmental-impact.
Anyway I’m sure Venezuela’s happiness numbers must have come down along with the oil-prices.
I am surprised that Philippines wasn’t included on the list of youth, who were unemployed. But I have to agree with the texting because it is considered to be the texting capital or something like that.