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India's Population Grows To 1.21 Billion
(RTTNews) - India has released the provisional 2011 Census report, which shows that the country's population has increased to about 1,210.2 million, or 17.5 per cent of the world population. Literacy rate has marked a nine per cent increase, while the growth rate has reduced from 21.15 per cent to 17.64 compared to the last time the government counted heads of its citizens in 2001.
Way back in 2007, I found this obscure chart from The York Group on a Norwegian blog , posted previously as Countries GDP as US States .
Nation’s GDP as US States
Nuclear power plants have only a few decades of working life before they have to be shut down – so how big is the problem? Roll over the circles to find out more about each site, and use the controls on the right to home in on what interests you.
World's nuclear reactors location
Nuclear power: The nuclear family
The world's largest nuclear-energy producers THE explosions and meltdown fears at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant that followed Friday’s earthquake have increased concerns in Japan about the safety of nuclear power.
Defence budgets: Military ranking
The world's biggest defence budgets THE ten biggest defence budgets for 2010 add up to a total of more than $1.1 trillion, according to the latest Military Balance report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a think-tank. The defence budget of America alone, at $693 billion, accounts for more than 60% of the total.
In this series of interactive cartograms , FedEx shows our changing world (and I guess, how they are changing with it) through a variety of worldwide demographics such as access to mobile Web, growth, and happiness.
Our changing world in cartograms
Source: James Gwartney, Joshua Hall, and Robert Lawson, Economic Freedom of the World: 2011 Annual Report (Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 2011), published in the United States by the Cato Institute.
Economic Freedom of the World
Geography
SELECT a subject from the top menu and watch the countries on the map change their size. Instead of land mass, the size of each country will represent the data for that subject --both its share of the total and absolute value.