{"id":637,"date":"2008-04-16T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/16\/representing-international-disproportions\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T23:57:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T04:57:07","slug":"representing-international-disproportions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/16\/representing-international-disproportions\/","title":{"rendered":"Representing International Disproportions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmapper.org\/index.html\">Worldmapper<\/a> offers maps in which the actual land area is morphed to represent various disproportionalities across the globe. The website has over 300 maps! Thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/73man.blosgpot.com\">73man<\/a> for the tip!<\/p>\n<p>I borrowed a few examples and pasted them in below. The first map is an actual land area map for reference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/LandAreaforComparison.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189765622082521362\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2LandAreaforComparison.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Territory size shows the proportion of worldwide net exports of toys (in US$) that come from there. Net exports are exports minus imports. When imports are larger than exports the territory is not shown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/toyexports.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189766042989316386\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2toyexports.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Territory size shows the proportion of worldwide net imports of toys (in US$) that are received there. Net imports are imports minus exports. When exports are larger than imports the territory is not shown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/toyimports.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189766597040097586\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2toyimports.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Territory size shows the proportion of carbon dioxide emissions in 1980 that were directly from there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/CarbonEmissions90.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189741157948803298\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2CarbonEmissions90.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Territory size shows the proportion of all territory level decreases in carbon dioxide emissions between 1980 and 2000, that occurred there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/CarbonEmissionDecreases90-000.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189765059441805570\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2CarbonEmissionDecreases90-000.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Territory size shows the proportion of state military spending worldwide that was spent by that territory in 2002.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/MilitarySpending00.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189740101386848466\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2MilitarySpending00.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Territory size shows the proportion of species worldwide that became extinct between 1500 current era and 2004, that became extinct there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/SpeciesExtinct.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-6\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189739611760576706\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2SpeciesExtinct.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Territory size shows the proportion of all people over 15 in the world living with diabetes who live there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/DiabetesPrevalence.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-7\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189738804306725042\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2DiabetesPrevalence.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Territory size shows the proportion of all people aged 15-49 with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) worldwide, living there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/HIVPrevalence.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-8\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189738396284831906\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2HIVPrevalence.png\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See more alternative maps <a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/maps-and-perceptions-of-world.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worldmapper offers maps in which the actual land area is morphed to represent various disproportionalities across the globe. The website has over 300 maps! Thanks 73man for the tip! I borrowed a few examples and pasted them in below. The first map is an actual land area map for reference. Territory size shows the proportion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[229,135,36,2123,1826,64,252,260,290,309],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-consumption","tag-demography","tag-economics","tag-environmentnature","tag-geographymaps","tag-globalization","tag-healthmedicine","tag-international-comparisons","tag-sciencetechnology","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17357,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/17357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}