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This thread is dedicating to sharing maps relating to European society. This first map shows the old age dependency ratio. East Germany and rural France both suffered from the attraction of their capital. Young people from the countryside moved to Berlin and Paris (and other major cities like...

We already have a threat about interesting maps, but I thought I would start one specifically about historical maps as they are so many of them. Map of Roman expansion Linguistic map of the Roman world at its height Linguistic map of Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire...

I have updated the map of Renewable energy as percentage of primary energy supply. You can now see the evolution from 2018 to 2024.

Most of Europe is now covered by the Eupedia Travel Guide (EU + Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, but without Cyprus and Malta). The map below ranks regions of Europe from the most to the least interesting for sightseeing based on the density and rating of cities, towns, castles ans well as naturals...

I found these two maps, which I found interesting enough to share. The highest fixed speeding tickets are in Austria, Italy and Belgium. Oddly enough the amounts on the map are in Australian dollar. I like the system of speeding tickets based on the driver's income like in the UK...

All countries in the world lend and borrow money to each others. There has been a lot of talk about the US public debt lately. About 12% of it is owned by foreign governments, notably Japan, China and the UK, and another 9% to 12% by foreign companies and individuals. But despite having a public...

Trump has mentioned that he wanted to privatise the US postal service to increase its efficiency. I have read that many Americans believe the US postal service to be grossly inefficient. In reality this is far from being the case. The US postal service is one of the best in the world. According...

This is the most comprehensive map of variations of English accents in North America that I found so far. Very interesting.

I have created maps of traffic-related deaths per 100,000 inhabitants for the Unites States and Europe. When looking at the statistics per country from Wikipedia, I noticed that the US states with the worst road fatality rates were way above anything observed in other developed countries and...

Global warming is one of the most important global issues at the moment and for the foreseeable future. Carbon taxes are one of the main tools to try to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, essentially by increasing the price of fossil fuels. This both decreases demand for goods and services that...

This was posted on Twitter by Archeohistories. The author of the post gave the following description. "Distribution of Ancient Greek Dialects, 500 BC : The image presented is a map depicting the distribution of ancient Greek dialects around 500 BC. This map not only illustrates the...

About 9% of global greenhouse gas emissions are caused by the methane emitted from cattle flatulence. Additionally, large swathes of the Amazon rainforest are being destroyed (usually burned) to expand cattle ranching. Tropical deforestation itself is responsible for 10% of global warming, and...

LGBT rights have come a long way since 2001 when the Netherlands became the first country in the world to legalise gay marriage. Many Western European countries followed suit soon afterwards and gay marriage has been adopted by even more nations, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, in the...

The Guardian: Germany legalises possession of cannabis for personal use The new law will allow the growth of up to three plants for private consumption, holding 50g of cannabis at home, or 25g in public. This makes Germany the third European Union member state to legalise cannabis for personal...

It may be due to the Covid-19 effect or just the economy catching up, but in only two years many countries have seen their percentage of Internet users rise quite a lot, as can be seen on the two maps below. If data is correct, the share of Internet users dropped in a few countries though...

I have just updated the map of modern slavery based on the Global Slavery Index. There are some interesting evolutions. In 2018, slavery was almost completely absent from Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and Austria. However in 2023, that was only the case of Norway. The other...

Here is a new map showing the social security benefits of an average worker as a percentage of their previous earnings in the OECD. The beneficiaries in question are retired workers, disabled workers, and aged widows and widowers. This data does not include unemployment benefits. The most...

This map is based on the data from the CIA World Factbook as reported on Wikipedia. The percentages indicated for the increase of decrease in obesity rates are the difference between the rates for 2016 and for 2024. For example, in the United Kingdom the rate decreased from 27.8% in 2016 to...

I have just made this map to visualise which countries were the most affected by COVID-19. It is based on data from the World Bank Group published on Wikipedia. The eastern half of Europe, as well as India and most countries on the American continent (including the US, but not so much Canada)...

I was wondering what Europe would look like if the various separatist movements had their way. I checked the list of active separatist movements in Europe and selected only the regions with reasonable claims of independence based on the percentage of population supporting independence. This is...