According to the 2013-2018 public announcement and other media reports of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Processing Information System of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of...

Gas prices are on the rise again—about 4.2 percent, on average, in the past three months. Behind that increase is a wide range of price swings felt differently around the world. We ranked 61...

The election of November, 2018 ushered in the new 116th Congress of the United States of America. This visualization attempts to answer the question, “How diverse is the 116th Congress?” It does...

Besides economic data and company fundamentals, market psychology as well as general investor sentiment helps in determining stock prices. Economic data and Company fundamentals are usually...

Matchstick graphs of max. daily temperatures for summer 2017-18 (left) and 2018-19 (right).

Global press freedom is down, journalist deaths are up.

Women still have a long way to go before their representation in state political offices reflects the U.S. population. This graphic shows how women currently represent just 25.3 percent of state...

An interactive network map about the main political ideologies and their related economic and social doctrines. Each ideology is linked to some specific octrines about economy, socaility, work and...

From food storage to furniture—we use plastic for everything. In 2008 alone 245 million tons of plastic were produced. These plastics often find there way into our waterways. Every year 6.4 million...

The HICP is the best economic indicator of the real cost of living across Europe. However most people don't know about it. In a self initiated project we took the challenge of introducing the...

Rhino populations in Africa have been decreasing for many decades. The biggest cause of this is illegal poaching. Rhinos are often brutally killed and their horns hacked off for sale on the black...

The government aims to reduce deaths by a third over the next ten years.

Some names sound familiar, like Stephen Bannon and Donald Trump Jr., but most don’t.

It is no surprise that wealthy, industrialized nations consistently perform well on indicators of government-influenced social progress. It is more interesting to examine countries' performance on...

The United States law enforcement and counterintelligence investigation of Russian government efforts to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election is going since May 2017. This is a handy...

South America urges for more conservative governments. What showed first in Argentina and Brazil has been spreading across the continent. As political parties usually play a minor role in this...

Cruising to a fourth term in the March 18 elections, Vladimir Putin is relying on a deep well of support based on two main factors: the huge rise in living standards over his 18 years in office...

When senator 'X' votes a 'Yea' or 'Nay' what are the chances that senator 'Y' would do the same? This tool allows you to find out the similarity in voting patterns of senators of the 115th Congress.

This data visualization animation brings to life the extraordinary expansion of deportations managed by the EU's Coastal and Borders Agency, Frontex. It shows in a thought-provoking way the growing...

Because every nation is best at something.

"Reprojected Destruction" shows the extent of Aleppo's recent destruction reprojected onto figure-ground maps of Berlin and London. The visualisation aims to help viewers relate their known urban...

This artefact represents the impact that humanity has had in space around Earth. Each piece of tinfoil represents 10 debris pieces generated by man in the Earth’s Low Orbit, for a total of 13...

The region has the worst murder rate in the world, but there are some signs of improvement.

In early 2019, The Economist built a demographic model using 90,000 individual survey responses from YouGov to calculate an individual’s probable attitude to each of three possible Brexit options:...

The findings, while limited, point in one direction: Gun control can save lives.

Meltwater from Greenland’s ice sheet contributes about 0.8 millimeters a year to global sea level rise. That number might sound insignificant but it is accelerating, and part of a trend that could...

In collaboration with OECD, we created an interactive data platform to help countries assess their state of digital development and formulate policy strategies in response. The toolkit supports the...

As part of the transition deal announced in March 2018, Britain agreed to remain within the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy for around 20 months after Britain leaves the EU on March 29,...

A record year of home demolitions in occupied East Jerusalem

Data is based on crime incident reports provided by Boston Police Department (BPD) documenting the initial details surrounding an incident to which BPD officers respond.