The map shows population density; the brightest points are the highest densities. Each country is colored according to its average annual gross national income per capita, using categories established by the World Bank (see key below). Some nations - like economic powerhouses China and India - have an especially wide range of incomes. But as the two most populous countries, both are lower middle class when income is averaged per capita.
It's interesting, but the map is a little wonky, because the income levels and population densities differ in granularity. It kind of works. Kinda doesn't. There seems to be a lot of missing data - or does population density in northern Africa really drop off that quickly (it is desert land, albeit)? A little more explanation in the description or the legend would have been useful.
There are also three other slides that follow the map (like the one below), but they're mostly just run-of-the-mill list of facts with cutesy icons to show percentages. Not a fan of those at all. Actually, they kind of bother me.
GeoNames is integrating geographical data such as names of places in various languages, elevation, population and others from various sources. All lat/long coordinates are in WGS84 (World Geodetic System 1984). Users may manually edit, correct and add new names using a user friendly wiki interface.
GeoNames geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. It contains over eight million geographical names and consists of 7 million unique features whereof 2.6 million populated places and 2.8 million alternate names. All features are categorized into one out of nine feature classes and further subcategorized into one out of 645 feature codes. (more statistics ...). The data is accessible free of charge through a number of webservices and a daily database export. GeoNames is already serving up to over 11 million web service requests per day.
Our handy tool allows you to select up to four world countries or regions and compare demographic, geographic and economic data at the press of a button.
Compare: Demographics and economics Population Population Growth Migration Life expectancy Gender ratio Age structure Birth rate Death rate GDP GDP per Capita GDP Growth Unemployment Labour force Area Coastline Boundaries Transport and comms Telephone Lines Mobile phones Radio stations TV stations Internet users Railways Highways Waterways Pipelines Ports and harbours Airports Heliports
The WebGL Globe
The WebGL Globe is an open platform for geographic data visualization. We encourage you to copy the code, add your own data, and create your own.
If you do create your own globe, please share it with us. We will post our favorite links below.
Features:
Latitude / longitude data spikes
Color gradients, based on data value or type
Mouse wheel to zoom
More features are under development...
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