Guess the map 13: Mercator maps are cool, actually

[EnglishEdward]

So what can be lost on a nation level ?
Airplanes? No, the map would have less colours.
Wars? No, that would also look entirely different.
Elections? That'd be very subjective
need to think

What is lost is more to do with the nations' inhabitants.

Types of UN resolutions lost in 2013?

No

Okay, I can't resist a facetious guess:

Lost single socks. That's always of concern if you have a dress code to adhere to, or you just like your socks to match.

Nothing to do with clothing, footwear or personal physical material possessions.

 

[tamyrlin]

Education/Female Education?

 

[EnglishEdward]

Education/Female Education?

No, it is not education related.

 

[Samson]

Population change by primary driver

• gray/teal/#207876 - Change less than theshold
  
• Red - birth rate lower than natural death rate
• Light green - increase due in temporary inward migration (labourers with no residency rights)
• Blue - decrease due to undocumented outward migration
• Orange - decrease due to documented outward migration

 

[EnglishEdward]

The issues impact on population change, although not in the way most people would usually regard it.

One, arguably two colour categories, generate migration; but the map is not of migration as such.

 

[The_J]

Something related to personal freedom?

 

[EnglishEdward]

Not really.

 

[GinandTonic]

Okay, I can't resist a facetious guess:

Lost single socks. That's always of concern if you have a dress code to adhere to, or you just like your socks to match.

Just always buy similar socks. One of the best decisions I've ever made.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Just always buy similar socks. One of the best decisions I've ever made.

I had a cat (Lightning) who developed a habit of stealing socks. First it was my dad's socks, then mine (he hid the rest of his). She would take one half of each pair, which left me with mismatched socks and no choice but to go to school wearing one orange sock and one yellow sock.

I finally just started buying six-packs of white socks. That way she could still take one half of each pair and I'd always have matching socks left.

The actual reason she did this was trauma over having two of her kittens taken from her before she was ready to let them go. My grandmother insisted we couldn't keep the females and they had to go as soon as they were weaned. My cat was a fantastic mother, and I think she would have been happy to keep them forever, as she was allowed to do with the male kitten.

The socks were kitten-substitutes, as she would mew at them like she did with her missing kittens. We never did find her stash of kitten-substitute socks. She hid them very well.

 

[Birdjaguar]

There seem to be nations that are paired. could the map be displaying cross border migrations between nations because of political or economic strife?

 

[mitsho]

I have looked at it for some days now and still have no ideas. So some wild guesses:

Something with climate change? Energy sources? (But too much activity in Africa)

Something with education? Brain drain? (But then Eastern europe?)

Some other international treaties? Something with the international court (but then the US?)

Is it change in demographics? Age related maybe?

You see, no idea

 

[EnglishEdward]

None of those. It is not the type of map that is directly guessable. Instead requirng a zeroing via collective guesses.

Clue number 2:

It is to do with Death.

 

[mitsho]

Most common cause of death (lost lives), with the syrian red being "war" and the teal-grey being cardio-vascular deseases?

 

[GinandTonic]

It correlates quite nicely with life expectancy, except where it doesn't.

 

[EnglishEdward]

Most common cause of death (lost lives), with the syrian red being "war" and the teal-grey being cardio-vascular deseases?

Very very nearly.

There is something else between the "lost" and "lives".

 

[The_J]

Something like quality adjusted life hours (or whatever the term was) lost due to...

 

[EnglishEdward]

Here is the map:

 

[mitsho]

Cool, obviously Saudi-Arabia is road injuries...

 

[EnglishEdward]

Cool, obviously Saudi-Arabia is road injuries...

I could argue due to an alcohol deficiency; too many sober drivers?

But it is really an argument for legalising but properly regulating alcohol.

Albeit no doubt the feminists would say due to a shortage of lady drivers.

 

[The_J]

I'd say that @mitsho already had the right answer, and should post a new map, but I'm prepared to in case s/he doesn't want to.

Also interesting map .