If you assume the world is made of 100 people then 6 people have 59% of the world's net wealth. Unfortunately, I didn't see any reference to the data source for this image but that sounds about right.
An interactive graphic from the Wall Street Journal, which takes the data for 6 key financial indicators and stacks them while rollover text annotates the main events of the crisis. Created by Andrew Garcia Phillips, Stephen Grocer and Kate Milani.
I think the visual display of the data is very effective however the rollover text annotations are not effective since you can't use them to follow the underlining story in the data visualization.
While I appreciate Google Finance integrating the news story with the graphic which allows you to use the data visualization find related news stories you lose the different data series and there still is no coherent story for the graphic.
Still, I have found the most effective storytelling using data visualizations uses a person to narrate the story.
From a TED Talk in June 2006. What I love is the way he uses humor to make many of his points. Other good things in the video:
Watching him I see how controlling the display from his laptop is an obstacle. What he needs a way to interact directly with the screen through touch and gesture.
Created by Joe Swainson, recent graduate of University Arts London (Camberwell College). He created this poster to show the shift in our world economy with emergence of certain markets. Countries covered are: United States, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Russia, Brazil, India, China. Data sources are United Nations historical data and Goldman Sachs forecasting data. Each circle represents the size of the nation's economy every decade from 1970 to 2050. The countries are ranked by GDP each decade from largest to smallest. Pay attention to the forecast for China, India and Brazil
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Container ships parked off the Singapore coast. As of March 2009, 11.3 percent of the world's shipping capacity sat idle from How Google Earth explains the financial crisis found via ChartPorn
The piece consists of two layers: the lower half is a mapping of the world's GDP and the top half is a mapping of the derivatives volume, alloted to the coordinates of the countries on a map.
Sculpture found via infomation aesthetics
One of several maps showing territories re-sized according different variables. More maps can be found at WorldMapper run by SASI Group (University of Sheffield) and Mark Newman (University of Michigan). The map below displays the population in 2000.
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[tags]World, Population[/tags]
Instead of income this graph focuses on personal net worth. I found the pie chart at Metrics 2.0, depicting the share of personal wealth by region in 2000.
Average wealth amounted to $144,000 per person in the USA in year 2000, and $181,000 in Japan. Lower down among countries with wealth data are India, with per capita assets of $1,100, and Indonesia with $1,400 per capita.
[tags]wealth, net worth[/tags]
After coming across this graph about the share of world GDP (China, India, and US), I started to wonder what was the percentage back to 1500? The graph below shows the share of GDP over the last 500 years for China, India, Japan, Latin America, Western Europe, and United States. (Keep in mind that the change in population size will effect the size of the GDP)
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Data estimates for GDP from Angus Maddison Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen.
See also:
Last 2,000 years of growth in world income and population
[tags]GDP, China, India, Japan, Latin America, United States, Western Europe[/tags]
