Jake of the Web

This is an absolutely fascinating series of maps of the world - each map represents a different statistic and each country's placement within that statistic. The larger a country appears on these maps, the higher its rating in the given category:


Relatively normal map: comparing land size in each country



Air travel



Rail travel



Mopeds and motorcycles


Wealth in the year 1 AD



Wealth in 1900 AD



Projected wealth for 2015



The prevalence of HIV



Nuclear weapons



War deaths, 1945-present



Increase of carbon dioxide emissions, 1980-2000



Decrease of carbon dioxide emissions, 1980-2000

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/3109042/The-Atlas-of-the-Real-World.html