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Basic Income Experiments Around the World What if everyone received monthly payments to make life easier and encourage greater economic activity? That’s the exact premise behind Universal Basic Income (UBI). The idea of UBI as a means to both combat poverty and improve economic prospects has been around for decades. With the COVID-19 pandemic wreaking […]

The Shape of Economic Recovery, According to CEOs Is the glass half full, or half empty? Whenever the economy is put through the ringer, levels of optimism and pessimism about its potential recovery can vary greatly. The current state mid-pandemic is no exception. This graphic first details the various shapes that economic recovery can take, […]

What Happens Every Minute on the Internet in 2020 In 2020, an unfathomable amount of digital activity is occurring at any given moment. This ongoing explosion in activity is the aggregate output of 4.5 billion internet users today, a number that’s projected to increase even further in coming years. This powerful visual from Domo helps […]

The $88 Trillion World Economy in One Chart The global economy can seem like an abstract concept, yet it influences our everyday lives in both obvious and subtle ways. Nowhere is this clearer than in the current economic state amid the throes of the pandemic. This voronoi-style visualization from HowMuch relies on gross domestic product […]

View the full-size version of this infographic. Who’s the Most Popular YouTuber in Every Country? View the high resolution of this infographic by clicking here. Forgot about becoming an astronaut—these days, kids are three times more likely to dream of becoming a professional YouTuber. And who can blame them? With a big enough fan base, […]

Animated Map: The Comparative Might of Continents We’ve come quite a long way since the time of Pangea. Today, the world’s continents are home to over 7.8 billion people, and each one is unique in its own way. This video from the data visualization tool Vizzu compares the surface area, population, and GDP of the […]

The Growth of Home Fitness Apps Home fitness apps have been shaping our lives—and our glutes—long before COVID-19, but their popularity has truly surged in the last few months. Which regions are driving this growth? And is home fitness here to stay, or will it fade away when the pandemic is over? This graphic uses […]

View the interactive version of this visualization Charting Energy Consumption by Source and Country View the interactive version of this post by clicking here. Over the last 50 years, the world has seen a colossal increase in energy consumption—and with the ongoing transition to renewable energy, it’s interesting to look at how these sources of […]

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Such Great Heights: The World’s Tallest Buildings It seems that humanity is always vying to exceed our past accomplishments, and nowhere is the evidence clearer than in the tallest buildings that make up our cities. We’ve previously looked at how the architectural feats of humanity have simply grown in magnitude over time, tracing this progress […]

The World’s Richest Families in 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t stopped the world’s wealthiest families from growing their fortunes. Over the past year, the richest family—the Waltons—grew their wealth by $25 billion, or almost $3 million per hour. This graphic, using data from Bloomberg, ranks the 25 most wealthy families in the world. The data […]Read More

The World Population in 2100, by Country In 2015, the United Nations predicted that the global population could surpass 11 billion by the end of the century. Last year, the UN revised these estimates, but the numbers it came up with were still well above 10 billion. These regular projections from the UN have been […]