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Facebook is building new maps to track population density across the world

Humanitarian agencies in Africa are hoping detailed population maps being created by Facebook researchers will save lives and improve living conditions.

07 Aug 2019

Future of Economic Progress

This map shows how new words spread along trade routes

When exotic goods travelled to new regions, their native names sometimes hitchhiked along with them.

10 Apr 2019

Environment and Natural Resource Security

This is Africa's ambitious free trade plan, mapped

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) could unite the continent and help it become a major force on the global economic stage.

09 Apr 2019

Supply Chain and Transport

Here are the 20 busiest ports on the planet

An estimated 90% of all world trade is facilitated by maritime shipping. This is where the action is.

05 Feb 2019

Digital Economy and Society

These charts show the extreme concentration of global wealth

The top 1% continue to control a large amount of wealth, but there is good news at the other end of the spectrum, as the percentage of people in the lowest wealth band has been shrinking ...

07 Jan 2019

Supply Chain and Transport

Here's what the shipping container has done for globalization

Mapping the movement of millions of shipping containers can reveal shifts in global economic power.

21 Nov 2018

Global Economic Imbalances

This is what US wealth inequality looks like, imagined as just 100 homes

By imagining America as 100 homes, this visualisation helps show us the extent of inequality in the US.

07 Nov 2018

Global Health

These are the shocking numbers behind America's opioid epidemic

In 2017, there were over 11 million “opioid misusers” in the United States with the epidemic is expected to claim nearly half a million lives in the next decade.

19 Oct 2018