Can you identify what these world maps represent?

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5 is a life expectancy map.
 
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2 is Ginu Coefficients.
 
I am 99% sure number 6 is literacy rate. Else the fact if North Korea and Cuba being of the same color like Western countries is hard to explain. And these Communist regimes, as evident in Russia in 1920-30, are masters at bumping that rate.
 
I think I know #2:

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Income Inequality
 
Below are posts that were correct in their guesses or made interesting guesses.
Here goes..

6. Literacy rate.. (North Korea and Cuba purple could be a hint)

9. Gotta be birth rate


Fun quiz! :)
The two left in the quote box are correct. :goodjob:

Number 9 is accesibility to water i believe
5 is poverty rate
Nope to both you of kind guessers. Your guesses are interesting given what Nos.9 & 5 actually are. See directly below for No. 5.
Wait... I just realized!

I'm 99.99999% sure that 5 is the average lifespan...
Yup! No.5 is Life Expectancy. You beat Masque and Oda Nobunaga to it.
My guess for the first was going to be millionaires per capita, but CO2 per capita makes just as much sense.
:yup: Interesting.
10 looks like murder rate to me
Correct! :goodjob:
Masque said:
Re: No. 8 ~ Certainly something related to wealth and/or development. I expect no points
You're on the right track, as is EdwardTKing.
2 is Ginu Coefficients.
Correct! :goodjob:
I am 99% sure number 6 is literacy rate. Else the fact if North Korea and Cuba being of the same color like Western countries is hard to explain. And these Communist regimes, as evident in Russia in 1920-30, are masters at bumping that rate.
Correct, although others beat you to it.

I think I know #2:

Income Inequality
Correct, it's the Gini Co-Efficient.
 
Summary:

Correctly Guessed Answers So Far:

1) CO2 Per Capita Per Country.
2) Gini Co-Efficient (income inequality)
3) Nominal GDP Per Capita (IMF figures for year 2006).
5) Life Expectancy
6) Literacy rate.
7) Death Rate.
8) GDP Per Capita reflecting PPP.
9) Birth rate.
10) Murder rate.

The one remaining:

4)
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What the hell, I'll take a stab...number 8 is defense spending per capita.
 
Well...the colors are ranges, but you do have a point....

Edit: Yeah, it couldn't be it. Russia outspends Mexico by several times but only has about 40 million more people.
 
Canada and USA on the same level, even the same level per capita, would also be...dubious.
 
Actually...I think it just may be GDP taking into account purchasing power parity per capita. For map number 8. Since the other one was explicitly stated as nominal GDP.

Remember, although there may be a wide gap in between, when it comes to mapping levels, they usually take those things and label them the same since they're both at the world's top plateau. So even if there were a GDP at PPP gap of...say...$5,000...if they're above the top level, say, $35,000, then they're both colored the same. Even if that same $5,000 gap would mean a huge difference between a third-world country and a developing one. I think that's why it's pretty hard to figure out a few of these maps.
 
Purchasing power per capita sounds about like it.
 
Wow. I got one right. :)

Spoiler :
The rich-poor divide map
 
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