Guess the Map V: A Map is Worth a Thousand Words
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Silver_wizard
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Does this have anything to do with communism? I mean, China and Albania having the same color. But wait, South Korea...
And here is the map again:
And here is the map again:
mitsho
Deity
So, who is reading up on Gabon? 
We do have a scale ranging from Gabon and Ethiopia to Algeria, Albania, China, South Korea and Singapore.
The data is quite easy to get, but there is none on Taiwan, Haiti and Benin, and the data for Latvia is easy to get wrong...
It looks like the solution lies in the Asia-compley (China, North and South Korea, Taiwan) or in Africa....
I have no idea, thus I am going to read up in wikipedia on GAbon...
EDIT: Population density is sthg that comes up, but it's not very likely (Brazil). On second look, it looks like it is correlated with Development, with the only exception here being Singapore and South Korea. I guess it is a rate of some social indicator (Children mortality, population concentration, etc. ...)
We do have a scale ranging from Gabon and Ethiopia to Algeria, Albania, China, South Korea and Singapore.
The data is quite easy to get, but there is none on Taiwan, Haiti and Benin, and the data for Latvia is easy to get wrong...
It looks like the solution lies in the Asia-compley (China, North and South Korea, Taiwan) or in Africa....
I have no idea, thus I am going to read up in wikipedia on GAbon...
EDIT: Population density is sthg that comes up, but it's not very likely (Brazil). On second look, it looks like it is correlated with Development, with the only exception here being Singapore and South Korea. I guess it is a rate of some social indicator (Children mortality, population concentration, etc. ...)
EnglishCrusader
AYEEEEE
Natural resource levels?
uat2d
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It's not related to genetic attributes of the population, is it?
So, who is reading up on Gabon?
We do have a scale ranging from Gabon and Ethiopia to Algeria, Albania, China, South Korea and Singapore.
The data is quite easy to get, but there is none on Taiwan, Haiti and Benin, and the data for Latvia is easy to get wrong...
It looks like the solution lies in the Asia-compley (China, North and South Korea, Taiwan) or in Africa....
I have no idea, thus I am going to read up in wikipedia on GAbon...
EDIT: Population density is sthg that comes up, but it's not very likely (Brazil). On second look, it looks like it is correlated with Development, with the only exception here being Singapore and South Korea. I guess it is a rate of some social indicator (Children mortality, population concentration, etc. ...)
I've been pouring over Gabon and Ethiopia trying to see something that links them.
Road fatalities per capita?
Change in rural / urban population?
filli_noctus
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Change in illiteracy rates?
Winner
Diverse in Unity
Elimination of poverty?
mitsho
Deity
It's something that Europe can lose between 25-50% since 1960, so most of the normal social indicators fall out of that range because Europe was good enough already at that time to not be able to lose 50% on it (Children Mortality f.e., or Illiteracy was quite low). Plus, Communism doesn't have an effect on it.
Birth Rates is what comes to mind (China: One Children Policy, Europe: 1960 is Baby Boomers, 2011 is not), but of course the Middle East would not fare better than Europe, thus the scale has to be turned around. Looking at Illiteracy and not Literacy, as it seems to be "better" to lose few than to lose much. It has to have to do something with Children though, (Albania has the highest birth rate in Europe, Poland, Czech Republic and Bosnia point also in that direction (P: Catholicism, B: Muslim, CR: Atheist, but neighbouring Eastern Countries are "high").
So, something with Birth Rates`? (Or Youth Bulge?)
Birth Rates is what comes to mind (China: One Children Policy, Europe: 1960 is Baby Boomers, 2011 is not), but of course the Middle East would not fare better than Europe, thus the scale has to be turned around. Looking at Illiteracy and not Literacy, as it seems to be "better" to lose few than to lose much. It has to have to do something with Children though, (Albania has the highest birth rate in Europe, Poland, Czech Republic and Bosnia point also in that direction (P: Catholicism, B: Muslim, CR: Atheist, but neighbouring Eastern Countries are "high").
So, something with Birth Rates`? (Or Youth Bulge?)
Close enough. Percentage change in fertility rate (average number of children born per woman), when comparing latest (in most cases 2011) data to 1960 data (or 1965 in a few cases, most notably China). I used the data available on NationMaster.
Macau #1, going from 5.02 to 0.92 in 50 years (-82%). Gabon and Ethiopia are notable for being the only countries where fertility rate in 2011 was actually higher than in the early 1960s.
Macau #1, going from 5.02 to 0.92 in 50 years (-82%). Gabon and Ethiopia are notable for being the only countries where fertility rate in 2011 was actually higher than in the early 1960s.
mitsho
Deity
So the whole Middle East was already on a very high level and thus could lose that much percentage? Interesting. Map's following shortly
Oh yes. In 1960 Iran was at 7, Tunisia 7.1, Saudi Arabia 7.22, Jordan 7.75, Yemen at 8.36. Other Middle Eastern countries were at around 7 - 8 children per woman. Fifty years later Iran is at 1.88, Tunisia 2.03, and Jordan 3.39. Even Yemen managed to almost half its fertility rate and now stands at 4.63 children per woman.
mitsho
Deity
That's really an interesting site btw. Lost some time there now.... Nevertheless I will go for "Now to something completely different" But I do not find the good blank map... The one contre brought up first (not sure though!). Does anyone have it? ( I do need some time to compile the data first in a special way anyways...)
But I do not find the good blank map... The one contre brought up first (not sure though!). Does anyone have it? ( I do need some time to compile the data first in a special way anyways...)
mitsho
Deity
Yeah, thanks I could have looked for it myself... But well yeah, on to the map:
I could have looked for it myself... But well yeah, on to the map:- I hope the light yellow is not too light, so you can see it. Alternatively I can recolour them...
- But it's the best scaling down you can do in paint and the light yellow category is the lowest
- The categories differ in size range though, as the higher categories encompass more "numbers" to not have too many categories (hope that makes it clear?).
- Grey means zero/not applicable
