The BEST stats you’ve ever seen
Taking a look at the state of the world through the century with cool data visualisations.
You come out from an evening of political discussion and music at the symposium. While going back to your house you stop at the markets of the agora and do a little shopping. You walk to your house wearing your chiton where you find your wife spinning wool to make new clothes.
This was your life as an aristoi or aristocrat in ancient Greece.
Things have evolved way past that now.
We have developed systems to combat every disease, built technology that lets you reach anyone in the world, anytime. Our societies have developed from the ancient Greek classes and our borders have been redrawn.
The past century had been the witness to some drastic changes in our society. To understand the effect of such changes on the World, I have created powerful visualisations using available data, that could give you an insight into it.
Let’s stop blabbering and get straight into the cool visualisations.
Life Expectancy and Fertility
As it was obvious from the animation, during the 60s, Asian and African countries had fertility rate (average no of children per women), above 5. These countries had a lower life expectancy than in most Western countries.
As time progressed, the fertility rate reduced and life expectancy reduced. There seems to be a direct correlation between the two as countries had a high life expectancy with the decrease of fertility rate.
This can be inferred from the animation below.
Child Mortality Rate and GDP
There is almost a linear relationship between the GDP per capita of a country and the child mortality rate.
The North American countries and Western Europe have high GDP per capita and low child mortality rates.
The case is different in Eastern European countries like Syria, Asian countries like Myanmar, African countries like Kenya and Angola. They still have relatively high child mortality rates and lower GDP per capita.
Who gets paid more?
The North Americans, Western Europeans and the mates from down under seemed to get paid more than the rest of the world.
You could see the varying income in Russia and Ukraine with the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and in the Middle East with the fluctuating oil prices.
The below animation dives deeper and gives us insight into which sections of the society has more share of the income.
It can be seen that all over the World, the top 10% of the people have the highest share of the income.
Over time the curve is tilting to the right- meaning, the rich are getting richer.
Who is on the Internet?
Ahh… The Internet… The magical thing that gives you the power to stream Friends reruns on Netflix.
Where are all the people on the Internet from? Let’s take a look!
During the inception of the internet, it was limited to the US, used mostly by universities and the military.
With the turn over of the century, and fast development of new technologies enabled people to get their hands on computers that opened the gates to the Internet.
China has the most number of iinternet users, followed by India.
With new cheap devices being released in the past decade people and cheaper data plans, the internet is easily affordable by an average citizen now.
This can be seen in the sudden spike in users from India and China over the last decade.
We as a society have come very far in this 100 years and we still have so far to go. To a better world where everyone is free…
Here is a webpage that shows the complete data.
