Tag: Present day
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How the world is governed: 197 countries, 112 systems
Democracy or not is only the first question. Compare head of state, executive, federalism, chambers and voting system, and the world’s 197 countries fall into 12 families and 112 exact systems. 80 countries have a system nobody else shares.
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What the world grows: farmland and crops on one map
The leading crop on every 10 km square of the world’s farmland, and sixty years of change in how much land we farm. Wheat, maize, rice and soya beans cover 50% of the harvest, and half of it grows on 6.4% of the world’s land.
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Faith on the map: religion around the world and across the UK
Christianity’s centre has moved to sub-Saharan Africa, the unaffiliated are growing fast, and in Scotland 51.1% now say they have no religion. A map of religion in 201 countries, every UK neighbourhood and 1,624,818 places of worship.
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Where the animals are: the world’s cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and chickens on one map
35.3 billion farm animals for 8.1 billion people, mapped every 10 km. Chickens have multiplied 7.1 times since 1961, farm mammals outnumber people in 40 countries, and New Zealand has lost two thirds of its sheep.
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Dinner, tea or supper? What Britain calls its evening meal
12,522 answers from the Our Dialects survey, mapped: tea in the north, dinner in the south, a tea line across the Midlands, and no sign of dinner moving north.
