Today’s map comes from the new ForeignAssistance.gov website. It is a fascinating data visualization of planned global development and foreign assistance spending for the Fiscal Year 2017. The entire website is worth your time to peruse. Here are a few...
It’s World Cancer Day. So, let’s talk about cancer! The first two maps come via PRI’s The World. It shows the number of new cancer cases, annually per 100,000 people. Darker green indicates more cases. As you can see, the...
Today’s map comes from a UN entity called the Central Emergency Response Fund. It shows where some $70 million of funding for humanitarian relief operations were disbursed today. These eight emergencies are not necessarily the biggest in the world...
Today’s map comes from the Global Peace Index, released by the Institute for Economics and Peace last week. The index is a combination of 23 indicators which taken together offer a useful way to compare the levels of peace...
This map, from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, succinctly shows the number people displaced by fighting in South Sudan and where they have fled. There is a deeper story to this map. Over the last four...
Today’s map comes from the World Health Organization. It shows the number of days each district of Sierra Leone has gone since the last reported case of ebola. The magic number here is 42. This is double the 21 day...
Today’s map comes from the Fresh-out-the-Oven State of Food Insecurity report, a flagship publication by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. It’s shows something pretty remarkable: global hunger rates and the prevalence of malnutrition are at their lowest points ever. The...
Today’s map comes from the International Organization for Migration. It offers a detailed visualization of migration routes traveled by Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar and Bangladesh in risky sea voyages. The IOM released this map today as part of a $26...
A large earthquake and deadly earthquake rocked Nepal again today. The death toll, now at 37, has been climbing throughout the day. This time, the epicenter was about 50 miles east of Katmandu, not far from Mount Everest. From BBC:...