Every year, 8 million metric tons of plastic enters the world’s oceans – much of it through our river systems. See which rivers are polluting the most.
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Upward Momentum: Charting a Year of Skyscraper Construction
Visualizing the World’s Busiest Ports
Map: China’s Provinces Rival Countries in Population Size
Visualizing Global Shipping Container Traffic
How the World’s Biggest Companies Have Changed in Just 10 Years
Animation: The World’s 10 Largest Economies by GDP (1960-Today)
Megacity 2020: The Pearl River Delta’s Astonishing Growth
Does America View Its Trade Relationships as Fair?
Visualizing the World’s Largest Importers in 2017
Visualizing The World’s 20 Largest Tech Giants
Mapped: The Countries With the Most Foreign Currency Reserves
Chart: The Most Influential Countries in Asia
Interactive: Comparing Asian Powers to the U.S.
The Fastest Growing Cities in the World (2000-2016)
Visualizing China’s Most Ambitious Megaproject
China’s Staggering Demand for Commodities
The Top Importers and Exporters of the World’s 18 Most Traded Goods
Mapping the World’s Wealthiest Cities
Summing Up 5 Key Predictions For Global Markets in 2018
The Tech Giants Growing Behind China’s Great Firewall
Animation: Human Population Growth Over All of History
China’s Digital Wallets Offer a Glimpse at the Future of Payments
The 57 Startups That Became Unicorns in 2017
The Global Rush to Build New Skyscrapers
35 Chinese Cities With Economies as Big as Countries
Map: Internet Censorship Around the World
Chart: Is U.S. or China the World’s Economic Superpower?
Animation: China’s Rapid Transit Boom (1990 – 2020)
Which States Get the Most Chinese Investment?
Chinese Brands are Shaking Up the $420B Smartphone Market
The Trump Effect on Currencies
Most Traded Currencies in 2016
The Majority of the World’s Population Lives in This Circle
27 Fintech Unicorns, and Where They Were Born
The Five Tallest Glass Skyscrapers, and the Views From Their Tops
These 3 Animated Charts Capture the Economic Rise of Asia
Explained by Graphics: Tension in the South China Sea
China’s Debt Bomb: No One Really Knows the Payload [Chart]
A Changing Skyline: The World’s Tallest Buildings Over Time
Four Maps Showing China’s Rising Dominance in Trade
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto [Chart]
Animation: How China Trumps the U.S. in Trade
China’s Economy: The Sum of the Parts
The World Map of the U.S. Trade Deficit
Sizing Up the Tallest Skyscraper of 2015
Investing in the Rise of the New Spending Class
Animation: 100 Years of the Most Populous Countries
Global Stock Markets Off to Worst Start in History [Chart]
Timeline: How the Global Economy Played Out in 2015
Video: How the U.S. Dollar Spread Across the World
Visualizing Chinese Investment in Africa
Mapped: The World’s Fastest Growing Cities
Where Does Global Growth Come From? [Chart]
China vs. United States: A Tale of Two Economies
Interactive: Tracking the Energy Titans
Video: 35 Years of World Economic Evolution in 20 Seconds
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Nearly 150 skyscrapers were completed around the world last year. Find out which cities and regions are growing skyward the fastest.
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Every day, millions of tons of goods pass through ports to get to their end consumers. Here are the world’s busiest ports, and how numbers have changed.
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With 1.4 billion people living in the country’s 33 distinct regions, each of China’s provinces has a population that is equal to that of a major country.
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Globalization owes a lot to the humble shipping container. See the massive scale of global container shipping, and which countries are moving the most units.
This nifty animated chart shows how the list of the world’s biggest companies by revenue have changed over the last decade.
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This rapid-paced animation shows year-by-year changes in GDP for the world’s 10 largest economies over the course of 57 years.
China’s Pearl River Delta, in an unprecedented growth spurt, has seen cities expand and merge to become the largest contiguous urban region in the world.
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How does the U.S. view its trade relationships? See this recent data from Gallup, which shows how views have changed over time, as well as by political party.
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With protectionist policies gaining momentum and a global trade war underway, we look at the world’s largest importers of goods in 2017.
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