Worldmapper: amazing site!

Since I have a feeling that people are not using the "international research & think tanks" sidebar, I am putting this up as a new post.  But really, whenever you want to research a topic, you should go to the sidebar and find a good research site.  Way too many people are wasting time by going to Wikipedia, which is not a good strategy for informed analysis.  

Try sites such as www.cfr.org or www.fpa.org or others on the sidebar.  

At any rate, I'm putting this amazing site here for now.  The worldmapper home page is 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 366 maps.  That's right; 366 maps.  

Give it a try.  Amazing source.