ATLAS · COMPARE
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Every other map site recolours the world by one number and stops there. The Atlas does something no one else does: it lets geography dissolve into data. Pick a pairing, and watch all 190-odd countries lift off the world map and fly to their place on a scatter plot — wealth against family size, lifespan against infant survival — so the relationship becomes a shape you can see. Then the two metrics blend into a single map, shading each country by where it falls on both at once. Real questions, real World Bank figures, shown as motion.
GDP / CAPITA ⊗ INTERNET %
The Digital Divide
Does a country going online track how rich it is — and where is the gap closing fastest?
FERTILITY ⊗ GDP / CAPITA
Prosperity & Family Size
As countries grow richer, do families really get smaller — and who breaks the rule?
LIFE EXPECTANCY ⊗ INFANT MORTALITY
Longevity & Infant Survival
How tightly is a long average life bound to a baby surviving its first year?
URBAN % ⊗ GDP / CAPITA
Cities & Wealth
Do richer countries live in cities — and which nations are rich without being urban, or urban without being rich?
GDP / CAPITA ⊗ CO₂ / CAPITA
Wealth & Carbon
Does getting richer always mean emitting more carbon per person — or can a country break the link?
CO₂ / CAPITA ⊗ RENEWABLES %
Emissions & Renewables
Do the countries running on renewables actually emit less carbon per person?
The morph, the blend, and the number
Each comparison gives you three ways to see the same relationship. The morphis the headline: tap from Map to Scatter and every country glides from its real geographic position to its position on an X-Y plot — one metric across, the other up — so a correlation you’d normally read off a chart becomes something you watch happen. The blendis the live bivariate map: instead of one metric as colour and one as bubbles, the two fuse into a single nine-colour scheme, so each country’s shade tells you where it sits on both at once. And the number — the correlation, written r — measures how tightly the pattern holds across every country with both figures, from −1 (perfect opposites) through 0 (no link) to +1 (perfectly in step). Correlation is not causation: it tells you whether two things move together, never why.
BUILD YOUR OWN
These pairings are curated, but the live Atlas blends anytwo of its 23 metrics. Open the Atlas, pick a base metric, add a second layer, and switch the panel to “Blend (3×3)” to fuse them.
THE WORLD, BY THE NUMBERS
Back to the Atlas hub and its 23 metric maps.