The Best World Data Visualizations of 2021 in 5 minutes

Some of the best data visualizations from 2021 and 2020 about world geography. See how data visualisations can show you things that even your geography teacher got wrong! All from the data is beautiful subreddit. Covering population, Mercator projections, average flag colour, speakers of languages, the biggest cities in the world… and more.

All these have received LOADS of upvotes in the fantastic subreddit r/dataisbeautiful.

If you want to have a look at some of the visualisations yourself, or tell the creator directly how much you love it, you can view them directly in the links below.

REMEMBER... Data IS beautiful, but it doesn't always tell the truth. To see the data sources and tools used, go and have a look at the original content below.

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Fewest countries with more than half the land, people and money [OC]

Ratio of land and sea at different latitudes

World Mercator map projection with true country size and shape added [OC]

Average flag colour by latitude [OC]

Density map of stars on national flags [OC]

Languages by Speaker Count & Type [OC]

Animation: the 10 biggest cities in the world, 1500-2018 [OC]

City maps from Airbnb location ratings [OC]

Vegetation intensity throughout the year for Africa [OC]

South Korea's GDP per capita vs. the rest of the world (1970 & 2016) [OC]

Frances longest border is shared with Brazil!

Mercator projection by grafonaut:

Photo by Antonio Quagliata from Pexels

[undatable]

Which is your favourite visualisation?!

[EkaterinaSimonenko-kf]

you misrepresented Russia's borders at 1:06, and then say it's "much smaller" lol