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Time to look back at 2017 - this is a thread of tweets I sent that generated the most engagement

Each dot is a US adult's guess about the location of North Korea
nytimes.com/interactive/20…

TRUMP EFFECT: Change in % confident in US president from Obama to Trump
Sweden 🔻83 points
Germany 🔻75
S Korea 🔻71
France 🔻70
Spain 🔻68
Canada 🔻61
UK 🔻57
Australia 🔻55
Brazil 🔻49
Mexico 🔻44

Russia 🔺42 points
pewglobal.org/2017/06/26/u-s…

People killed annually by
Sharks 10
Elephants 100
Hippos 500
Snails 10,000
Dogs 25,000
Snakes 50,000
People 475,000
Mosquitoes 725,000

Income gains going to top 1% in
1954-7: 5%
1975-9: 25%
2009-12: 95%

nyti.ms/1BhNrQq

Los Angeles county is home to more people than each of these 41 states

Nation of immigrants

Say religion is very important
🇮🇩Indonesia 95%
🇮🇳India 80%
🇧🇷Brazil 74%
🇺🇸US 53%
🇲🇽Mexico 37%
🇮🇱Israel 34%
🇬🇧UK 21%
🇫🇷France 14%
🇨🇳China 3%

February disapproval ratings in first term
Reagan 18%
Bush 13%
Clinton 25%
Bush 21%
Obama 17%

Trump 56%
people-press.org/2017/02/16/1-e…

Share of national income held by top 1%
Russia 20%
US 20%

UK 14%
China 14%
Canada 14%
Germany 13%

Sweden 9%
Australia 9%
Norway 8%
Denmark 6%
nytimes.com/2017/11/17/ups…

How the distribution of income in America has changed

Press freedom rank 2017
1 🇳🇴Norway
16 🇩🇪Germany
22 🇨🇦Canada
40 🇬🇧UK
43 🇺🇸US
103 🇧🇷Brazil
155 🇹🇷Turkey
176 🇨🇳China
rsf.org/en/ranking

Mesmerizing: Most popular names for girls
jezebel.com/map-sixty-year…

Crime has been falling dramatically but year after year, most Americans say crime is increasing

pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017…

Tax revenues as % of GDP
Denmark 46%
France 45%
Sweden 44%
Italy 43%
Norway 38%
Germany 38%
Iceland 36%
Spain 34%
UK 33%
NZ 32%
Canada 32%

🇺🇸US 26%

oecd.org/newsroom/socia…

Adults with post-secondary degrees (US)
Hindus 96%
Jews 75%
Muslims 54%
Buddhists 53%
Unaff 44%
Christians 36%

pewforum.org/2016/12/13/rel…

Richest 10% of Americans take a larger slice of the economic pie than they did in 1913, at peak of the Gilded Age
nytimes.com/2014/03/12/bus…

Murders in Brazil = Murders in all blue countries combined
metrocosm.com/homicides-braz…

Deaths in terrorist attacks this year
Blue: In Europe
Red: In Africa
rts.ch/info/monde/901…

Employees work 50+ hrs/wk
Turkey 41%
Mexico 29%
Japan 22%

UK 13%
US 11%

Finland 4%
Norway 3%
Denmark 2%
Sweden 1%

American exceptionalism: Health care spending vs. life expectancy

ourworldindata.org/the-link-betwe…

The DC income divide
Blue dot - 2 households with income >$200k
Yellow dot - 2 households with income <$25k

datasmart.ash.harvard.edu/news/article/u…

CEOs of big companies
Guys named John: 5%
Women (all names): 4%

nytimes.com/2015/03/03/ups…

American democracy

Trump voters
19% of US population
25% of US adults
27% of eligible voters

scatter.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/mak…

The devastating spread of opioid overdose deaths

Best for women's well-being
1 🇮🇸Iceland
5 🇪🇸Spain
10 🇸🇬Singapore
12 🇬🇧UK
17 🇦🇺Australia
21 🇫🇷France
22 🇺🇸US
23 🇪🇪Estonia
27 🇰🇷S Korea
32 🇮🇹Italy
51 🇿🇦S Africa
87 🇨🇳China
99 🇸🇦Saudi
105 🇹🇷Turkey
131 🇮🇳India
152 🇸🇾Syria
washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-ca…

Immigrants started 51% of the US startup companies valued at $1 billion or more
blogs.wsj.com/digits/2016/03…

Most popular names for boys

The gap between the political values of Democrats & Republicans is the largest ever measured by @pewresearch
people-press.org/2017/10/05/1-p…

White evangelicals are twice as likely (82%) as US Jews (40%) to believe God gave Israel to the Jewish people
pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013…

Each dot represents a US adult's guess about the location of Ukraine
washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-c…

Median household net worth
Whites $132,500
Asians $112,300
Hispanics $12,500
Blacks $9,200

census.gov/newsroom/press…

34% of Americans reject evolution entirely, say humans existed in present form since beginning of time

California’s economy is bigger than the economy of each purple country
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compariso…

Spending more, dying younger: Healthcare in America
ourworldindata.org/the-link-betwe…

Trust their national government a lot
🇬🇭Ghana 51%
🇮🇳India 39%
🇩🇪Germany 26%
🇷🇺Russia 20%
🇺🇸US 15%
🇸🇪Sweden 15%
🇬🇧UK 14%
🇻🇪Venezuela 14%
🇯🇵Japan 6%
🇪🇸Spain 5%
🇫🇷France 3%
🇧🇷Brazil 2%
🇬🇷Greece 1%

This is what the global geographic distribution of terrorist attacks looks like

Deaths from terrorism last year

Iraq 9,765

Afghanistan 4,574
Syria 2,102
Nigeria 1,832
Pakistan 956
Somalia 740
Turkey 658
Yemen 641
Libya 376
India 340

North America region 65
South America region 39

visionofhumanity.org/indexes/terror…

No confidence in Trump
🇲🇽Mexico 93%
🇪🇸Spain 92%
🇸🇪Sweden 90%
🇩🇪Germany 87%
🇹🇷Turkey 82%
🇬🇧UK 75%
🇨🇦Canada 75%
🇦🇺Australia 70%

During recent economic expansions, the top 10% have gained several times more than the bottom 90% combined
levyinstitute.org/publications/i…

What Trump inherited from the Obama era
nytimes.com/2017/01/03/opi…

Less than 8% of the world's 21 million refugees at the end of 2015 went to Europe & North America

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Should society accept homosexuality?
88% yes - Spain
80% Canada
60% US
16% Russia
9% Turkey
2% Pakistan
2013

The jihadist attacks you may not have heard about in the media

economist.com/news/middle-ea…

Most Facebook content censored at government request
1 Brazil
2 Turkey
3 Germany
4 India
5 France
6 Israel
7 Austria
8 UK
9 Russia
10 Argentina

Data from latest Facebook transparency report: govtrequests.facebook.com

Children living in relative income poverty
Israel 36%
Turkey 32%
Spain 31%
US 29%
UK 20%
Germany 15%
Finland 11%
Denmark 9%
unicef-irc.org/publications/p…

This simple GIF illustrates how over time Democrats & Republicans have fewer & fewer political values in common
pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017…

Never travel to other EU countries
63% 🇧🇬Bulgaria
61% 🇬🇷Greece
61% 🇵🇹Portugal
59% 🇭🇺Hungary
55% 🇪🇸Spain
37% 🇫🇷France
27% 🇬🇧UK
6% 🇸🇪Sweden

Half of all Canadians live in the red area south of the Washington-Oregon border
metrocosm.com/canada-populat…

Turkey has more journalists in jail than any other country

# of journalists in jail -
Turkey 73
China 41
Egypt 20
Eritrea 15
Vietnam 10
Azerbaijan 10
Russia 5

cpj.org/reports/2017/1…

Ending this thread of popular tweets from 2017 with this popular thread of population density maps. Thanks for scrolling this far!

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