World View

This is the world around us

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but world maps and graphs carry with them deep insight into our lives on this planet.

When we first saw our earth viewed from outer space, there was a global gasp and grasp about the possibilities. Decades later, we must come to terms with global impacts and changes that have happened since.

This page hopes to capture global images and graphs that give us similar insight and pause.

Many such global maps are collected by Worldmapper. Check them out by clicking the button below.

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Map: The Most Common* Jobs In Each State 1978-2014

India Grows, Canada Disappears: Mapping Countries By Population

These are all the rivers that feed into the Mississippi River.

This map shows the world divided into 7 sections (each with a distinct color) with each section containing 1 billion people.

The global flow of people: Explore new estimates of migration flows between and within regions for five-year periods. (Published in Science).
By Nikola Sander, Guy J. Abel, & Ramon Bauer
at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital