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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
289 Comments
Suggested fix: mink pelts (Denmark) has a black background (which equals “People” category)
So tea and sugar are foods, but corn and palm oil are commodities? What are your criteria? Khat chewers are now criminals (they are not in Great Britain and countless other countries), but the production of landmines is technology? What are your moral standards? Weird graph which in fact says nothing.
why are tanzania and east timor not included?
Hi Aoife,
We tried hard to get every country. Really hard. But we failed. Tanzania and East Timor were among our handful of fails.
But if you have any data, research or info that’ll help us fill the gaps, feel free to send it over.
Alex
Sweden does not have the most nuclear reactors. The US has 104 plants. Japan is in second with about 50. There are about 400 worldwide. The US also leads in capacity factor and generating capacity. Sweden probably generates the highest proportion of its electricity from nuclear power, however it is incorrect to say it has the most nuclear reactors.
I work in the nuclear industry.
Hi Alex
I edit the site. Thanks for your comments from inside the industry.
No doubt you’re right about absolute figures, but we looked at reactors per capita. (You can see in our data sheet linked from the post.) Using per capita data takes population differences into account and makes comparisons relative.
On a per capita basis, Sweden has the most nuclear reactors with 1.22 per million people. The US is 15th with 0.35/1million and Japan 13th with 0.42/1million.
Alex
Finland is no. 1 coffee drinker, not Norway you sillies.
Isn’t Finland top in education? The system obviously failed you if you think opinions and facts are the same. Top world coffee drinkers? Show the evidence, you silly!
haha Philippines. Why am I not surprised
Canada, we have the most fruit juice drinkers! Sweet! I’m thankful I don’t live visit our neighbours to the south often…
So Poland is not the best at anything?
Hi Dav,
There were some countries we just couldn’t find a stat for, no matter how hard we tried. And we tried hard.
If you have one for Poland, send it in. We might be able to add it.
Alex
Im from South Africa and it is a true pity that you put us on here for a crime statistic. We have the biggest gold and platinum reserves in the world, and we basically have a monopoly on the diamond trade in the world. Minerals is just one of the examples that we own at. You are pathetic. Im sure your from America. You think your country is the only country in the world and you are so ignorant. Its very very sad frankly.
Hi Michael,
We’re not from America, land of the serial killer. We’re based in Britain – number one for CCTV.
You’re right that South Africa is the world’s biggest producer of platinum.
Botswana digs up the most diamonds, though. And gold is a multi-horse-race between a couple of big producing countries.
We’re sorry you take offence at South Africa’s stat. There was no malicious intent.
Alex
lmao, USA-serial killers and thats it!
No Azerbaijan? *sadface* :’C
Colombia – cocaine? Doesn´t coffee ring any bells?
Nothing for Lesotho?
What about Lesotho?
See this please …
http://screencast.com/t/y0EGvgLP5TmV
Most of the countries are placed totally wrong, if it was on purpose in order to make this image “funny”, all I want to say is: It’s not funny.
Hi No Name,
I think you might have got us on Romania. We’ll update.
On the other pointers, maybe you missed seeing the little sticks on the flags – they’re what’s indicating the country’s position.
At a readable font-size, the flags themselves would cover some countries, so sticks are the pin-pointers.
Alex
Hello,
I would like to point out, that Slovenia isn’t known for its magazines. Actually, we have few magazines of our own and most of them are rubbish.
Georgia, library books? Who came up with that? It should be something to do with wine. Either just wine, or heavy drinking.
Best in landmines? Uhh… at least it’s something. Right?
Sadly very true, though. I wonder, are Croatia/Serbia/Montenegro the best at anything? xD; I know Serbia is the world’s leading frozen raspberry exporter. Major raspberry exporter in general, sometimes leading. Kind of a random fact :)
The CCTV stat is dubious – really I scarcely think h2g2 page is a reasonable reference. As far as I know this myth came from a study of one street extrapolated to the whole of London and then again to the whole of the UK.