Can you identify what these world maps represent?

[warpus]

4 looks like prevalence of AIDS, but it's not.. Crime rate?
8 - % of country that's urbanized?

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Damnit, I got number 8 by myself, only to find someone else got it later in the thread.

Is number 7 death rate?
Clues:
-Extraordinarily high level in AIDS-laden countries.
-Relatively high levels in Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (Falling life expectancy mixed with low birth rate)
-Moderately high level in Europe (No matter how good the life expectancy, a low birth rate will ultimately equal a higher death rate)
-Moderately low level in North America
-Paradoxically, a very low rate in the Middle East as a result of its sky-high birth rate.

 

[Rambuchan]

4 looks like prevalence of AIDS, but it's not.. Crime rate?
8 - % of country that's urbanized?

Nope, sorry old chap.

Damnit, I got number 8 by myself, only to find someone else got it later in the thread.

Is number 7 death rate?
Clues:
-Extraordinarily high level in AIDS-laden countries.
-Relatively high levels in Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe (Falling life expectancy mixed with low birth rate)
-Moderately high level in Europe (No matter how good the life expectancy, a low birth rate will ultimately equal a higher death rate)
-Moderately low level in North America
-Paradoxically, a very low rate in the Middle East as a result of its sky-high birth rate.

Nicely done. No. 7 is indeed death rate.

I've edited the summary post earlier in the thread to reflect these changes. Only one left to guess now.

 

[Brighteye]

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)

Spoiler :

Is it drug use?
Gun/violent crime?
Malnutrition?

 

[Mirc]

^ Can't be drug use with Holland and Switzerland so low. And it can't be malnutrition either, with the US so high.

 

[aaglo]

Could the no. 4 be
- official unhappiness towards the government?
- no. of military personnel per capita?
- % of inhabitable land?

 

[Rambuchan]

You are closer with the first guess aaglo.

 

[Brighteye]

You'll have to explain what the colours mean once someone's guessed it correctly. They don't seem to follow a graded range.

 

[-0blivion-]

Thats part of the fun.

 

[Portugal]

Is it drug use?
Gun/violent crime?
Malnutrition?

Can't be Gun/Violent crime either because Portugal is so high.

 

[Mise]

"Countries we have data for"?
pH of topsoil?
Rate of colour blindness per 100,000 people?

Err, "voter turnout/apathy"? (Green = high turnout, brown = low)

 

[Stolen Rutters]

Could the no. 4 be
- official unhappiness towards the government?
- no. of military personnel per capita?
- % of inhabitable land?

You are closer with the first guess aaglo.

Government control over media?

 

[Che Guava]

Number of official opposition parties...?

 

[GinandTonic]

Wittering. Sorry.

 

[warpus]

4 - Approval rating?

 

[JohnRM]

Number of official opposition parties...?

Cuba, Venezuela, and others wouldn't be green then. They'd be dark.

 

[Che Guava]

Cuba, Venezuela, and others wouldn't be green then. They'd be dark.

I know, but the colours don't seem to follow a real gradient....hmmm...maybe a comparisan of gov't types, or representation per capita...?

 

[Godwynn]

Is #4 corruption?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Okay, let's examine the characteristics of Number 4.

The United States, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, and most of Sub-Saharan Africa are similar.

Nigeria, Kasakhstan, France, Autralia, Kenya, Mozambique, Zimbabawe, Sengal, Mauretania, Ethipoia, and Tanzania are on the next level down.

Canada is on par with most of Europe.

China, Argentina, Chile Peru, Mexico, Libya, and Egypt are the same.

Indonesia, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and most of Central America and the Caribbean are green.

No data exists for Greenland, Serbia, Macedonia, Iraq, Afganistan, Somalia, Liberia, Western Sahara, Lichtenstein, Andorra, San Marino, Vatican City, Monaco, or North Korea.


So what would those states not have data on?

Perhaps it has something to do with Military Spending per Capita?

 

[warpus]

Cheezy, nah, the middle east would be darker