ATLAS · FUSION VIEWS
Fusion Views
The Earth map’s signature is layering live data — wildfires over wind, storms over flight paths. The Atlas does the same with the world’s numbers: two metrics on one map at once— colour for one, bubbles sized by another — so a relationship you’d normally need two charts to see jumps out of a single view. Each fusion view below answers one question, with the correlation measured from real, sourced World Bank figures.
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?
How to read a fusion view
Every fusion view uses two visual channels. The colour of each country is one metric — pale at the low end, deep green at the high end. The blue bubble on each country is a second metric — the bigger the bubble, the higher the value. When the deep-green countries also carry the biggest bubbles, the two metrics rise together. When deep green meets tiny bubbles, they pull apart. The single number on each page — the correlation, written r — measures how tightly that 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 only tells you whether two things move together, not why.
BUILD YOUR OWN
These six are curated, but the live Atlas lets you fuse anytwo of its 23 metrics. Open any metric map, then add a second layer of bubbles from the “+ Second Layer” panel.
THE WORLD, BY THE NUMBERS
Back to the Atlas hub and its 23 metric maps.