World Bank Dataviz

The World Bank is pleased to release the 2017 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals. With over 150 maps and data visualizations, the new publication charts the progress societies are making towards the 17 SDGs.

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1 New Zealand 2 Singapore 3 Denmark 4 Hong Kong SAR, China 5 Korea, Rep 6 Norway 7 United Kingdom 8 United States 9 Sweden 10 Macedonia, FYR

About a quarter of the world's refugees live in camps. They are largely concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Most refugees in other regions live in individual accommodation. Forced displacement is largely and increasingly an urban phenomenon, with refugees living in cities and towns where they seek security, anonymity, better access to services, and job opportunities. Read more in the new report  "Forcibly Displaced: Toward a development approach supporting refugees, the internally displaced, and their hosts"

Via Max Galka at Metrocosm

A third of the world’s population is under 20 years old. But some countries are younger than others. In around 40 African countries, over 50% the population is under 20. By contrast, in 30 richer countries, less than 20% of the population is under 20. Data via UN World Population Prospects.

The graph was created using the QoG Data Visualization Tool. Source: The Quality of Government Standard Dataset, version Jan16.; UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

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You can see movements of the global merchant fleet over the course of 2012, overlaid on a bathymetric map. You can also see a few statistics such as a counter for emitted CO2 (in thousand tonnes) and maximum freight carried by represented vessels (varying units).

What makes mosquitoes so dangerous? Despite their innocuous-sounding name—Spanish for “little fly”—they carry devastating diseases. The worst is malaria, which kills more than 600,000 people every year; another 200 million cases incapacitate people for days at a time. It threatens half of the world’s population and causes billions of dollars in lost productivity annually. Other mosquito-borne diseases include dengue fever, yellow fever, and encephalitis.

A fifth of the world's electricity production in 2012 came from renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, geothermal, and hydropower. The International Energy Agency estimates this could rise to a quarter of the world's production by 2020. 

And if you’re interested in this issue, tune in live to “Let Girls Learn” on April 13th at 1100 EST featuring United States First Lady Michelle Obama leading a call to action in support of educating and empowering adolescent girls. 

This map was created using gridded population data compiled by NASA. Whereas populations are typically broken down by geographic regions such as countries or states, gridded population data divides the world population into a grid of tiny square-shaped cells, without regard for administrative borders.

A recent study based on satellite data estimates that there are 3 trillion trees on Earth - that’s over 400 trees per person. That also means that there are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way. To mark the International Day of Forests, we’ve taken a look at the upcoming World Development Indicators 2016, and highlighted some trends in how forest cover has changed in the last 25 years. Read more

Original interactive at: http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/hottest-year-on-record/

According to the UN's World Urbanization Prospects, by 2030, the world is projected to have 41 mega-cities with more than 10 million inhabitants each. Tokyo is expected to remain the world’s largest city in 2030, followed closely by Delhi. The fastest-growing cities will be in Asia and Africa.