Can you identify what these world maps represent?

[Rambuchan]

Represented in the six world maps below are six factors that nations measure themselves and others by. Can you identify them all?

edit: They have all been guessed correctly now. See this post for the answers, with links to the wiki pages where they came from.

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5)


6)


Having identified these factors:

~ Which do you think are the really important ones?

~ What thoughts and revelations, if any, are provoked by what is shown in these?

~ Which other factors do you think are worth looking at which aren't mentioned above?

 

[Mirc]

Well... I can't identify them.

 

[Rambuchan]

Here are four more that are interesting to include, bringing us up to ten:

7)


8)


9)


10)

 

[Marla_Singer]

I've just seen the first map.

My guess would be that it represents energy consumption per inhabitant, or maybe oil refining per inhabitant.

I will post later for the other map, if I have a guess for them.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Why does the second map have the border between East Germany and West Germany but otherwise all post Cold War borders? And they are the same color so it isn't as though the different parts have a different level of whatever.

 

[Marla_Singer]

I guess the third map represents GDP per inhabitant.

Unfortunately, I have to leave now so I only come back later.

 

[Rambuchan]

Nice work Marla

1) CO2 Per Capita Per Country.

Spoiler :

3) Nominal GDP Per Capita (IMF figures for year 2006).

Spoiler :

Spoilers contain same maps but with their key revealed.

 

[IglooDame]

Here's my take on the first five:

Spoiler :

1) As Marla says, something regarding petroleum
2) No idea, except to note that it's pre-1992
3) Average lifespan
4) Guns per capita
5) Literacy rates

interesting quiz!

 

[Rambuchan]

Here's my take on the first five:

Spoiler :

1) As Marla says, something regarding petroleum [close, but it's been answered already]
2) No idea, except to note that it's pre-1992 [you expect a point for this?!]
3) Average lifespan [ [nope! answered already]
4) Guns per capita [nope!]
5) Literacy rates [nope!]

Spoiler :

NIL POINTS

interesting quiz!

Answers in there ^

 

[Cilpot]

Here goes..

Spoiler :

1. Answered, but I would have guessed Co2 per capita
2. Wild guess.. Suicide rate?
3. Answered, but I'd guess GDP per capita
4. That's a hard one.. Average tax rate? Something like that?
5. Internet access (another wild guess)
6. Literacy rate.. (North Korea and Cuba purple could be a hint)
7. ???
8. Number of cars...?
9. Gotta be birth rate
10. No idea..

Fun quiz!

 

[nonconformist]

2 is AIDS rates I think

 

[aronnax]

Number 9 is accesibility to water i believe

 

[Portugal]

Spoiler :

5 is poverty rate

 

[Mirc]

Spoiler :

Wait... I just realized!

I'm 99.99999% sure that 5 is the average lifespan...

 

[ArneHD]

Spoiler :

2. Population density?

 

[Riffraff]

2 could be crime rates, those two countries south of kasachstan make me skeptical though.

edit: wow no it could not be - what a lousy guess. Russia on the same level as Canada?!

 

[ArneHD]

2 could be crime rates, those two countries south of kasachstan make me skeptical though.

edit: wow no it could not be - what a lousy guess. Russia on the same level as Canada?!

Actually, I figure it's more likely to be AIDS, due to the high numbers in South Africa.

 

[Cuivienen]

My guess for the first was going to be millionaires per capita, but CO2 per capita makes just as much sense.

 

[Brighteye]

I'm fairly sure that population density isn't any of them. The only one I could have guessed was 1, which I've have said was pollution rates. Shame I'm too late.

 

[Masquerouge]

Oooooh nice lemme try!

Spoiler :

Represented in the six world maps below are six factors that nations measure themselves and others by. Can you identify them all?

1)

For 1 I say raw GDP (as in not per capita)

2)

For 2... no freakin' clue.

3)

For 3 something related to governmental/institutional stability

4)

No clue.

5)

Education? Or maybe life expectancy.

6)

No clue

Dang that's hard. Fun, but hard.