Worldmapper: amazing site!

Whenever you want to research a topic, you should go to the sidebar and find a good research site. Try sites such as www.cfr.org or www.fpa.org or others on the sidebar.

One of the sites on the sidebar is the worldmapper home page, which can be found here.

The idea is that they have taken key data in many areas (such as infant mortality or access to clean water or forest depletion or even toy exports) and have then created world maps that reflect each country's usage patterns. Thus, for something like birth rates, sub-Saharan Africa is huge and most of Europe appears to be tiny.

Go here to click on any of worldmapper's 696 maps. That's right; 696 maps.

Give it a try. Amazing source.