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Data visualizations & information graphics by David McCandless. Plus favourite finds & graphics from around the web. Making sense of the world - well, trying to - since 2009. https://linktr.ee/infobeautiful

A beautiful diagram displays an alternative view of the periodic table of the elements. This version puts the element silicon at the centre and organises other elements in a flowing eight-segment form around it

A world map with countries shaded in two colours to represent global population split evenly into two halves of four billion people each. A small group of countries in Asia is shaded pale yellow, including China, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, and a few others, representing half the world's population. The rest of the world, shaded in reddish-orange, contains the other four billion people, spanning all of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia, and most of the rest of Asia. The contrast highlights how densely populated South and East Asia are compared to the rest of the world.

A 3D-rendered map visualisation titled “The Great Fire of London 1666 Affected Area in Modern London” showing a bird’s-eye perspective of central London with modern buildings and landmarks such as The Shard, The Gherkin, Tower Bridge, London Bridge, Millennium Bridge, Blackfriars Bridge, Temple Church, The Barbican Centre, and St Paul’s Cathedral, with the area destroyed by the fire highlighted in a glowing red overlay stretching from near the Tower of London through Bank Station and Guildhall to the west near Temple Church, bounded in places by a glowing cyan outline marking the London Wall as established in 1666, with the fire’s starting point marked close to the river and an inset compass and scale in the lower left corner, using Google 3D Tiles data from 2023 overlaid with historical mapping from 1667 by John Leake and William Leybourne.

Infographic titled 'HOW COOL IT IS vs YOUR AGE' humorously mapping perceived coolness across ages 10–100. Items include 'Skateboarding' (younger years), 'Living alone' (early adulthood), 'Complaining about young people' (older age), 'Juuling' (young trend), 'Being good at patty cake' (childlike skill), 'Being told you look older' (subjective milestone), and 'Celebrating your birthday' (universal but less cool with age). A horizontal age axis runs below with no explicit coolness scale, relying on ironic cultural stereotypes.

A handwritten storyboard or script outline from Christopher Nolan's film "Inception." The image features handwritten text and diagrams, suggesting the film's complex plot involving a heist, an escape, and characters like Yusuf, Arthur, Eames, and Saito. The text includes notes about the heist, the escape, and various locations within the dream world, including Limbo.

An informative bar chart from YouGov titled "Friends reigns supreme as the most common choice of favourite sitcom among British Millennials - for Gen Z, it ties with Modern Family, while older Britons tend to favour Only Fools and Horses" visually compares the popularity of various TV sitcoms across four British demographic groups: Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, and Boomers, based on the percentage of respondents who named a favorite sitcom. The data clearly demonstrates that Friends is the top choice for Millennials (25%) and ties with Modern Family (13%) for Gen Z, while the classic British sitcom Only Fools and Horses is overwhelmingly preferred by Boomers (18%) and Gen X (17%). Other highly-ranked shows include Brooklyn 99 for Gen Z and Big Bang Theory for Gen X and Boomers, illustrating a distinct generational divide in comedy preferences among Britons.

This striking three-dimensional chart compares the **cost of buying a home versus renting** across major U.S. metropolitan areas in the third quarter of 2023. Rather than showing absolute house prices or rents, it visualizes the **buy-to-rent premium**: the percentage by which the monthly cost of owning a comparable home exceeds the cost of renting it, accounting for mortgage payments, taxes, insurance, and maintenance. Each city's value is represented as a vertical extruded bar, creating the appearance of a skyline in which the tallest "buildings" correspond to markets where purchasing is least financially competitive. Los Angeles tops the chart, where buying is 208% more expensive than renting, followed closely by the San Francisco Bay Area (197%), Seattle (180%), San Diego (172%), and Portland (169%). Many fast-growing western and Sun Belt cities also exhibit premiums well above 150%, reflecting the combined effects of elevated home prices and high mortgage interest rates. By contrast, several Midwestern and Rust Belt cities such as Detroit, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cleveland, and Baltimore have premiums below the U.S. average, with Detroit showing buying at only around 58% above renting. Although ownership still costs more in nearly every market shown, the gap varies dramatically by location. The visualization effectively communicates this disparity by borrowing the visual language of city skylines, allowing readers to compare dozens of metropolitan areas at a glance while reinforcing the metaphor that the tallest housing markets have become the hardest places in which to transition from renter to homeowner.

Infographic titled “AI Compute Oligarchy” showing the concentration of power capacity used for artificial intelligence data centers, with a subtitle explaining that the chart reveals a 16× surge in data center power demand and notes that 94% of infrastructure has not yet been built, highlighting a race among hyperscalers and startups to control AI infrastructure. The top section labeled “Total Operational Power Capacity 2259.6 MW” displays a horizontal bar of companies sized by current operational megawatts, dominated by xAI at 782.6 MW followed by Meta at 293.7 MW, OpenAI at 170.5 MW, Oracle at 169.6 MW, Tesla at 152 MW, and Google at 80.9 MW, with smaller segments for companies such as CoreWeave, Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft, Lambda, Crusoe, and several others occupying progressively smaller blocks. In the center the graphic contrasts “Operational vs Planned.” The bottom section labeled “Total Planned Power Capacity 35,736.5 MW” is a large red treemap showing future data center power projects, where Meta occupies the largest block with 8681.4 MW planned, followed by Oracle with 5043.6 MW, Sesterce with 5043.6 MW, and Scala Data Centers with 4804 MW. Other large planned expansions include Crusoe with 2800 MW, IREN with 2750 MW, OpenAI with 2500 MW, xAI with 1847.8 MW, and DataVolt with 1800 MW. Additional medium and smaller planned capacities include Reliance Industries at 1000 MW, Applied Digital at 750 MW, Google at 736.4 MW, Nebius at 424.1 MW, CoreWeave at 360 MW, Amazon at 350 MW, Tesla at 212.6 MW, plus a grid of smaller companies each contributing modest amounts. The visual emphasizes the dramatic difference between current operational capacity and the massive scale of infrastructure planned for future AI compute power. Source noted as Epoch.ai GPU Clusters with credit to Shashank A. Pandey.

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An infographic about tea brewing chemistry argues that steeping time dramatically changes the composition and flavour of tea even when using the same leaves and water. The headline states that “A 1-minute tea and a 5-minute tea are different beverages,” emphasising that extraction timing alters which compounds dissolve into the drink. The graphic explains that caffeine extracts very quickly, with roughly 80% leaving the tea leaf within the first one to two minutes. Catechins, including antioxidant compounds such as EGCG, extract more slowly and reach their peak concentration between three and five minutes. Tannins, which contribute bitterness and astringency and may inhibit iron absorption, extract later, becoming dominant after roughly four to five minutes. Three illustrated cups of tea show progressively darker colours at one minute, three minutes, and five-plus minutes, corresponding to changes in chemical composition. The one-minute brew is described as mostly caffeine with low catechins, the three-minute brew as the “sweet spot” where catechins peak before tannins dominate, and the five-minute brew as tannin-heavy. A line graph underneath visualises the extraction curves over time: caffeine rises rapidly and plateaus early, catechins climb more gradually and peak around three to five minutes, while tannins increase steadily later in the brewing process. The infographic frames tea making as a form of chemistry rather than simple preference, suggesting that brewing time can significantly alter taste, bitterness, stimulant effect, antioxidant content, and even nutritional interactions.

A radial bubble network diagram titled "Who's Suing Whom in AI?" mapping notable copyright infringement cases from over 100 lawsuits (David McCandless / Information is Beautiful, June 2026). Five major AI companies form the central targets — Google, Meta, and OpenAI as the largest, with Anthropic and NVIDIA as mid-sized defendants, plus a ring of smaller defendants including Midjourney, ElevenLabs, Suno & Perplexity. Arrows radiate inward from plaintiffs colour-coded by type: green for authors, orange for media, yellow for musicians, pink for platforms, teal for publishers, and red for visual artists. Notable plaintiffs include the New York Times, Universal Music Group, Getty Images, Disney, Elsevier, and Reddit — which appears on both sides of the chart. Three outcomes are marked: one win, one settlement, one loss.

A large illuminated world map mounted on an interior wall, showing continents in gold against a pale grid background with blue backlighting outlining coastlines. Along the top edge are several round clocks mounted in a row, suggesting a global time display. In front of the wall a series of gold stanchions connected by ropes form a barrier, and the polished floor reflects the lights and colors. The continents are stylized rather than geographically precise, and North Korea is distinctly highlighted in bright red on the eastern edge of Asia, drawing attention to its location on the Korean peninsula. The rest of the map remains uniformly gold, with the blue glow emphasizing the edges of landmasses such as the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The overall setting resembles a lobby, museum, or official building, with dramatic lighting used to make the map visually striking and to emphasize the singled out red region.

A humorous infographic titled "Should You Trust That Doctor?" from CollegeHumor. The infographic categorizes various fictional and real-life doctors based on their qualifications and trustworthiness. It features a range of doctors, including Dr. Huxtable, Dr. Quinn, Dr. Strange, Doogie Howser, Dr. Seuss, Doc Brown, Doc, J.D., Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, Spin Doctors, Dr. Fishman, Dr. Dre, Dr. Mario, Dr. Oz, Zoidberg, Dr. Horrible, Dr. Phil, Doctor Venture, Dr. Spaceman, Dr. Robotnik, Doctor Octopus, Doctor Evil, Dr. Pepper, and Hannibal Lecter. The infographic uses a visual scale to indicate levels of trust, ranging from "Trust with your life" to "Run. Run very far.

A humorous map meme titled “Angola: Can I go to Botswana? Namibia: No.” showing part of southern Africa with countries colored to illustrate the joke. Angola appears in pale yellow at the upper left of the region labeled ANGOLA, Namibia is directly below it colored light green and labeled NAMIBIA, and Botswana is to the east colored pink and labeled BOTSWANA. Surrounding countries such as Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Eswatini, and Lesotho are shown in gray with their names marked but not highlighted. The map makes clear that Angola and Botswana do not share a border because Namibia lies between them, with Namibia forming a long vertical strip along the Atlantic coast that blocks Angola from directly reaching Botswana, which is the geographic basis of the joke that Namibia is saying “no” to Angola’s request to go there. The background ocean along the west coast is light blue and the map uses simple borders and flat colors to emphasize the spatial relationship between the three countries.

Donut chart titled "Most of the World Can Now Afford Mobile Internet," showing that 97% of the global population meets the affordability threshold of 1 gigabyte of data for no more than 2% of average monthly income. The subtitle notes 200 countries meet this threshold. Surrounding icons indicate that affordable mobile internet enables access to banking and microfinance, education and books, health services, and public services. Source: World Bank, cable.co.uk.

A colorful infographic titled “Star Wars Sagas & Eras Timeline: BBY/ABY & ≈ Earth Year” showing the chronology of Star Wars stories along a horizontal timeline divided into distinct eras. On the far left the “Ancient Past” shows the founding of the Jedi Order at 25,000 BBY, approximately 23,010 BC. The “Prequel Era (Fall of Republic)” follows with The Phantom Menace at 32 BBY, Attack of the Clones at 22 BBY, and Revenge of the Sith at 19 BBY marking Order 66 and the beginning of the Empire. The timeline then moves into the “Dark Times (Rise of Empire)” featuring Solo at 10 BBY, Obi Wan Kenobi at 9 BBY, and stories like Rogue One and Rebels set between 5 and 1 BBY. The central point is A New Hope at 0 ABY, marking the Battle of Yavin. The “Original Trilogy Era (Galactic Civil War)” includes The Empire Strikes Back at 3 ABY and Return of the Jedi at 4 ABY. To the right the “New Republic Era (Post Empire)” shows The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Ahsoka set around 9 to 11 ABY. Finally the “Sequel Era (Rise of First Order)” includes The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi at 34 ABY and The Rise of Skywalker at 35 ABY. Each era is color coded with stylized icons of characters, ships, and symbols such as lightsabers and the Death Star. A legend at the bottom explains BBY as Before Battle of Yavin and ABY as After Battle of Yavin, with approximate real world release years noted beneath many entries.

A globe-centered map illustrates how air travel routes between Europe and Asia have been forced to change due to closed airspace over Russia, Ukraine, and Iran. The Eurasian landmass is shown with those restricted regions shaded, while a web of bright pink flight paths departs from Frankfurt and arcs eastward toward destinations such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Mumbai, and the Maldives. Instead of the previously direct great-circle routes (shown as faint dashed lines across Russia), the flights now bend sharply south and then funnel through a very narrow corridor over Armenia and Azerbaijan before spreading out again across Central and South Asia. The resulting paths appear longer and more convoluted, with multiple overlapping lines emphasizing congestion in that bottleneck. Oceans and country borders are softly rendered in muted tones, while the rerouted flight lines stand out vividly, underscoring how geopolitical constraints have compressed intercontinental air traffic into a tight passage.

An infographic flyer advertising an online seminar for learning how to create impactful infographics and data visuals with best-selling author and data-visualisation practitioner David McCandless of Information is Beautiful. Discounts are available.

Scatter plot comparing preferences related to age. The top graph shows a woman's age versus the age of the men she finds visually appealing, generally following a diagonal line with small deviations. The bottom graph shows a man's age versus the age of the women he finds visually appealing, with a strong preference for age 20, regardless of his own age.

A scatter plot titled "Fair and square? Russian federal elections, 2000-21" which visualizes the results of Russian federal elections. The x-axis represents voter turnout in percentage, ranging from 0 to 100%. The y-axis represents the percentage of votes for Putin, Medvedev, or the United Russia party, also ranging from 0 to 100%. Each dot on the plot represents a polling station. A cluster of dots appears in the upper right corner, indicating high voter turnout and a high percentage of votes for the specified candidates. A dashed rectangle highlights a grid-like pattern of dots at numbers ending in zero and five, with an annotation suggesting this pattern indicates potential foul play. The source is cited as Kobak and Shpilkin (2021).

A stacked column chart shows how long certain street drugs remain detectable in blood and urine. Cannabis, by far, is the most detectable with 336 hours in blood and 30 days in urine. The average is 24 hours and 4 days.

The cover images of three infographic books by David McCandless: Beautiful News, Knowledge is Beautiful and The Visual Miscellaneum

This image is a map of the continental United States showing regional usage of the word "bro" as a term of address among American men. Titled "BRO" in large purple text at the top left, the map uses varying shades of pink to purple to indicate frequency, with darker areas showing higher usage. The darkest regions—suggesting "bro" is very common—are concentrated in Texas and surrounding states including Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and parts of the South and Midwest. The Northeast and West Coast show lighter shades, indicating lower usage. Above the map, gray buttons labeled “buddy,” “dude,” “fella,” and “pal” suggest that the map is part of a broader interactive dataset showing regional slang preferences. A small credit in the bottom left attributes the source as Quartz, based on Twitter data analyzed by Grieve and Guo.

A word cloud aggregates over 150 books most mentioned in book polls, awards and top ten lists such as the Pulitzer Prize, Times Literary Supplement, Good Reads etc. Clear winners of this consensus are The Catcher in the Rye, Crime and Punishment, 1984, Catch 22 and One Hundred Years of Solitude.

A 3D rendered map of South America, emphasizing the topography. The continent is depicted in a blue hue, with a prominent mountain range running along the western coast rendered in warm colors, transitioning from yellow to orange to red, indicating varying elevations. The rendering gives a textured, blocky appearance to the landmass. The image includes text attributing the map to @cstats1, made in rayshader, with data from NASA SRTM.

Chart showing US presidential election results from 1976-2024, displaying percentage of eligible voters who did not vote and those who voted for different candidates. Data is arranged by year with color-coding: yellow for non-voters (typically 38-49%), blue for Democratic candidates, and red for Republican candidates. Stars indicate trifecta wins."

A colourful flower-like 7 way venn boggles the mind

Navy-on-cream tree diagram, slide 1/3, 'What are UFOs/UAPs?': 'Human Theories' branches into Breakaway civilisation (Wakanda-style secret society, anti-gravity tech), Military stuff (classified programs given undue mystique), and Mis-identified (human-made objects), split into Sensor errors (camera/radar faults, illusions) and Aircraft (balloons, drones, rockets, satellites). Military stuff further splits into Secret military tech (ours: USA/Area 51; someone else's: Russia/China), Dark military (tech mixed with abductions/false flags), False flag (disinformation vs rivals), and Funding round (leaked reports to boost Pentagon budgets). Note: Pentagon has many competing programs. Credit: Information is Beautiful; sources Wikipedia, Fortean Times, Marginal Revolution.

World map visually representing the number of inhabitants per doctor. Different regions are filled with numerical values, with higher numbers indicating more inhabitants per doctor. Variations are emphasized through shades or sizes of the numbers. The title reads "NUMBER OF INHABITANTS PER DOCTOR".

Diagram titled "Cycles of Political Revolution" illustrating Polybius's theory of anacyclosis from his Histories, circa 160 BCE. A wave-like timeline shows six forms of government in repeating sequence: Monarchy (rule by one) decays via despotism into Tyranny (rule by cruelty and oppression); revolution of the nobles leads to Aristocracy (rule by nobility), which decays via corruption into Oligarchy (rule by the powerful rich); revolution of the people leads to Democracy (rule by many), which decays via populism into Demagogy and then Ochlocracy (rule by mobs), ending in moral panic and reversion to tyranny, restarting the cycle.

Area chart titled "Female and Male Literacy Rates Have Almost Equalised," showing the percentage of the global population who can read and write, from 1976 to 2024. Female literacy (purple) rose from 61% to 85%. Male literacy (orange) declined slightly from 91% to 77%. The gap between the two has narrowed from 16 percentage points to 6. Source: World Bank.

A map of Africa showing travel advice levels issued by the Australian government. The map uses a color-coded system with different levels of risk: Do not travel: Red, Reconsider your need to travel: Orange, Exercise a high degree of caution: Yellow, Exercise normal safety precautions: Green, No travel advice: White. The map also shows international boundaries, national capitals, and points of interest.

An infographic flyer advertising an online seminar for learning how to create impactful infographics and data visuals with best-selling author and data-visualisation practitioner David McCandless of Information is Beautiful. Discounts are available.

A 3D scatterplot examines 703,560 possible combinations of kart customisations Mario Kart Deluxe, evaluating speed, acceleration, weight, handling and other attributes. The conclusion is Peach as a driver of the Teddy Buggy with roller tires and the cloud glider.

A series of illustrations shows how to eat and behave according to sushi etiquette. Listed are Do's like eating with chop sticks or fingers. Both is fine. Also listed are don'ts like handing money directly to the sushi chef, which is deemed unhygienic.

"Infographic 'How to Apply Sunscreen, according to science' in 3 steps. 1) Divide body into 11 zones: head, upper back, left/right arms, chest, abdomen, groin, lower back, 4 leg sections. 2) Apply 1-2 finger-lengths per zone (index + middle fingers); SPF15 example: 2 fingers = 2h15m protection (optimal), 1 finger = 45m (adequate). 3) Reapply: 30 min before sun, 30 min after entering sun, and after swimming/towelling. Source: FDA, Taylor (2002). Designed by David McCandless of Information is Beautiful.

The cover images of three infographic books by David McCandless: Beautiful News, Knowledge is Beautiful and Information is Beautiful

Checklist card titled "Pep Talk Generator," illustrated with a hippo above the tagline "Turn that frown upside down." Subtitle: choose any box from each column, 104,976 possible combinations. Four columns of checkable phrase fragments (e.g., "Champ," / "your soul" / "breeds miracles," / "mic drop.") designed to be combined into a sentence. Footer credits Raccoon Society, raccoonlovesyou.com, made in Madison, WI.(blue-grey).

Area Graph titled "Jazz Musicians - Peak Age" showing the number of albums released by artists of each age. The peak number of albums is at age 36. Data source: Miller (1999) from a sample of 719 notable jazz musicians.

A political compass meme with four quadrants labeled "Authoritarian," "Libertarian," "Left," and "Right." Each quadrant contains a wordplay on the word "men": "bye men," "by men," "bi men," and "buy men."

Line chart plotting Ebola cases against days since outbreak declared, comparing the 2014 West Africa outbreak (28,610 cases) to the 2018 Congo outbreak (3,470 cases). A dashed red line marks a CDC projection: a 65% chance of more than 20,000 cases by late August if containment stayed low. Source: New York Times.

Waffle chart from the New York Times titled "Of more than 600 claims Mr. Musk has made..." Each square represents roughly 1 percent of his claims, color-coded by outcome: 19% achieved (green); 35% late or did not deliver (orange/red); 33% no public update or too vague to assess (light grey); 13% have delivery dates still in the future (blue-grey).

Scatter plot titled "Bear hunt" showing EU27 countries' defense spending as a percentage of GDP in 2023, with the x-axis representing the distance of each country's capital from Moscow in thousands of kilometers. The graph illustrates a negative correlation between defense spending and distance from Moscow, highlighting countries like Estonia and Poland with higher defense spending.

A table relays important details on the 7 main types of plastic. 1 PET, 2 HDPE, 3 PVC, 4 LDPE, 5 PP, 6 PS and other. Details include full names, main uses, particular properties, % of each plastic in primary waste, recycability, and biodegradeability. Only types 1,2 and 4 are recyclable. None of biodegradable.

Treemap titled "$Trillions" comparing 29 dollar figures, in trillions, with box size scaled to value and sorted ascending top-left to bottom-right. Smallest: Elon (1.2, highlighted blue) and Amazon market value (2.2). Largest: cost of the 2007/08 financial crisis (15), estimated reparations to Black Americans for slavery (14), COVID pandemic cost to the world (12.4), and global health spend (11.2). Mid-range boxes cover national GDPs, tech company valuations, and global crime, debt, and education figures.

This image appears to be a satirical illustration about how wealthy individuals can minimize their tax burden. It depicts a scenario where a CEO receives $1 million in salary and has $1 million worth of company stock. The illustration shows the CEO borrowing money against the value of their stock, spending the borrowed money as if it were income, and then claiming they have no income for tax purposes. The text suggests this strategy allows the CEO to pay significantly less in taxes.

Line chart from the NYT showing global crude oil inventory (weekly, 2019–2026), sourced from Kpler. The 2026 line (gold) peaks near the start of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran before dropping sharply below the 2019–2025 historical range to 3.5 billion barrels, the lowest level shown.

A radial bubble network diagram titled "Who's Suing Whom in AI?" mapping notable copyright infringement cases from over 100 lawsuits (David McCandless / Information is Beautiful, June 2026). Five major AI companies form the central targets — Google, Meta, and OpenAI as the largest, with Anthropic and NVIDIA as mid-sized defendants, plus a ring of smaller defendants including Midjourney, ElevenLabs, Suno & Perplexity. Arrows radiate inward from plaintiffs colour-coded by type: green for authors, orange for media, yellow for musicians, pink for platforms, teal for publishers, and red for visual artists. Notable plaintiffs include the New York Times, Universal Music Group, Getty Images, Disney, Elsevier, and Reddit — which appears on both sides of the chart. Three outcomes are marked: one win, one settlement, one loss.

A chart titled "Doggie Language starring Boogie the Boston Terrier" showing 25 different dog body language positions and behaviors, from alert to relaxed, with simple black and white illustrations and captions explaining each pose.

A playful scatterplot (using dog silhouettes instead of dots) depicts the best dog, according to data. On the vertical axis is a measure of public popularity. On the horizontal is an indexed score of several metrics to consider when owning a dog (cost, temperament, no. of genetic ailments etc). Each dog is coloured by category (sport, toy, hound etc) and sized (S, M, L). If a dog is facing left, it's kind of a dumb dog. If it's facing right, it's an intelligent dog.

Complex plot called the Media Bias Chart showing news sources plotted on a grid. Vertical axis: reliability from "Contains Inaccurate Info" to "Thorough Fact Reporting". Horizontal axis: political bias from left to right. Includes many media logos positioned across the spectrum. Top-center sources deemed most reliable; extremes less so.

A black background infographic showing five different hangover cures. Traditional: a glass with egg yolk, lemon juice, and Worcester sauce, topped with pepper. American: similar but without lemon juice. Dutch: a glass of beer. Germanic: a wide bowl containing pickled herring with red mustard berries and purple juniper berries. Isotonic: a glass with water, salt, and sugar. Created by Information is Beautiful. Page 1 of 3.

Map of Africa illustrating average rainfall in millimeters per year. A color gradient legend shows that dark blue areas receive over 3000 mm of rainfall annually, transitioning through greens, yellows, oranges, and reds to indicate progressively lower rainfall, with red areas receiving less than 100 mm per year. The map shows high rainfall concentrated in the central and western equatorial regions, decreasing significantly towards the north (Sahara Desert) and the southwest (Namib Desert). Eastern Africa also shows significant rainfall variations. Insets show rainfall data for Cape Verde and Seychelles.

A bar chart depicts personal actions that can reduce emissions, measured in tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year. Drop the car is the first option with 2.4 tonnes saved. Take fewer flights is 2nd with 1.6. Switching to a plant-based diet, reducing food waste, changing to LED lightbulbs also included

A humorous image showing "THE CREATIVE PROCESS" as a numbered list of 6 stages: 1. THIS IS AWESOME, 2. THIS IS TRICKY, 3. THIS SUCKS, 4. I SUCK, 5. THIS MIGHT BE OK, 6. THIS IS AWESOME. The text appears in white letters on a black background, styled to look like a projection or display screen.

A line chart comparing life expectancy vs. health expenditure per capita from 1970 to 2022 across multiple countries. The y-axis shows life expectancy (60-85 years), x-axis shows health expenditure ($0-$10,000). Lines track each country's progress, with the United States notably showing high expenditure but lower life expectancy than peers like Japan and Switzerland. Countries are color-coded by continent. Source: Our World in Data

An infographic map titled “GDP Per Capita Across the Middle East” showing approximate income levels for countries in the region using labeled figures and a color gradient scale from lowest at $465 to highest at $71.6K. Each country is shaded and annotated with its per capita GDP in US dollars. Qatar is highlighted as the highest at $71.6K, with nearby Gulf states also high including the UAE at $49.6K, Kuwait at $32.3K, Bahrain at $29.6K, and Saudi Arabia at $32.9K. Oman is lower at $20.6K. Larger countries to the north and west show lower figures, with Iraq at $5.9K, Iran at $5.0K, Jordan at $4.7K, and Egypt at $3.5K. Israel stands out at $53.1K. Yemen is labeled the lowest at $465, with a note stating that approximately three quarters of its population live in poverty amid an ongoing civil war. Syria is shown but without a figure, with a note indicating no available data for Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine. A small annotation notes Qatar’s large natural gas reserves. At the bottom right, the regional average is given as $13.7K, and a source line cites the IMF October 2024 World Economic Outlook.