Interesting Graphs/InfographicsMaps/Etc thread

Plastic concentration in the oceans.

The plastic continents in progress....

^ Your type B thing is weird; it looks like a surprised square face dude who looks like he doesn't know what's going on

An interesting link that shows the population growth over centuries on a map

http://worldpopulationhistory.org/map/1/mercator/1/0/25/

Europe needs to start fucking more and have more kids.

1 hour ago, Stromboli1 said:

Europe needs to start fucking more and have more kids.

 

Europe is bad, Japan is worse (demographic suicide/extinction)

2 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

Europe is bad, Japan is worse (demographic suicide/extinction)

I'll help repopulate Europe.

6 hours ago, Stromboli1 said:

What is the basis of their calculation? I'd like to understand how they distinguish democracies and "flawed democracies"...  (why Japan, South Korea, Italy, Argentina or France are flawed democracies? )

Also, the "authoritarian" regimes seem to confuse very different situations (e.g. Russia is not comparable to North Korea - at all - yet they are in the same category )

59 minutes ago, Enrico_sw said:

What is the basis of their calculation? I'd like to understand how they distinguish democracies and "flawed democracies"...  (why Japan, South Korea, Italy, Argentina or France are flawed democracies? )

 

Also, the "authoritarian" regimes seem to confuse very different situations (e.g. Russia is not comparable to North Korea - at all - yet they are in the same category )

http://www.eiu.com/topic/democracy-index

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

10 hours ago, Stromboli1 said:

 

I'll help repopulate Europe.

not Japan? or Taiwan?

I believe that living costs , real estate prices, and job situations have something to the population decline- people are not stable enough to raise a family or a big one at that.  It's very sad.