During the year, we published our infographic stories to keep you in touch with the most interesting and essential facts derived from the world's seemingly never-ending maze of statistics. We were happy to see that you enjoyed them. In today's special year-end edition, we present the ranking of the best Viz of the Day's of 2016 with the most popular one shown at the top.
The economic divide among countries worldwide carries over into patterns of land purchasing and selling. The United States along with large economies and trading markets of Asia and the Middle East represent at least 30 percent of global land purchases since 2000, according to the LandMatrix, an independent land monitoring initiative. In contrast, the largest sellers of land globally include Russia—also among the top buyers—as well as developing countries of Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.Since 2000, the United States has been the most active country in the world in land trade, purchasing roughly 4 million hectares of land...
On November 8, US citizens will go to the polls to elect the 45th president of the United States. Predictions of which ticket will win the election and by what margin abound. These predictions should, but do not always, have one thing in common: data. If global events of this decade teach us anything, it’s that seemingly small challenges to the status quo, local sentiment globalized by social media, and many other “unpredictables” can turn the tide quickly and irrevocably. Data, new and old, still has a role to play in understanding US voter turnout, key election issues, and the strength ultimately of the US democratic system. We at Knoema...
Along with its cultural, leisure and recreational functions tourism contributes significantly (both directly and indirectly) to the world's economy and employment. It contributes to GDP even more than the automotive industry in all the regions throughout the globe: three times as much in Americas and two times as much in Europe, according to the World Travel & Tourism Council's 2013 research. Concerning employment, 102 million of persons worldwide, or 3.3% of the world's total employed population, were involved directly in travel and tourism industry in 2013, which is almost as much as the population of Mexico. Moreover, this figure is...
В одах Венский Институт Сравнительных Социальных Исследований провел изучение жизненных ценностей населения мира в шестой раз. Впервые оно было проведено еще в 1981 году и с тех пор проводится каждые пять лет, охватив за это время около 400 тысяч человек из почти 100 стран мира, составляющих 90% мирового населения. Это делает его самым большим международным исследованием ценностей, взглядов и убеждений людей, которое когда-либо проводилось в мире. Последняя волна исследования включила в себя опрос 80 тысяч человек из 60 стран мира. В рамках опроса людям было предложено ответить на более чем двести вопросов, касающихся их...