Worldmapper

Worldmapper describes itself as showing you “The world as you’ve never seen it before.” That may not be strictly accurate - the site certainly didn’t invent the concept of skewing the proportions of a world map to reflect the regional differences in some interesting variable - but Worldmapper certainly boasts a large collection of fascinating maps drawn in a uniform, easy to understand format.

From Work to Food to Death there’s data aplenty here, with maps available for download as bitmaps or PDFs and the underlying data available in Excel or OpenDoc format. (CSV format would be nice, but I’ll take OpenDoc over Excel any day.)

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