Making Sense Of The World, One Map At A Time
The following maps all come from data taken from Special Eurobarometer 545 Gender Stereotypes published in early 2024.
And it should be noted the surveys included both men and women in roughly equal number.
The full methodology can be found here.
I’ve published the maps below along with the underlying data so you can make your own conclusions:
The map above was created by Instagramer Matt Shirley and the data comes from his followers.
If you like this sort of map, you’ll probably like his book A Visual Learner’s Guide to Being a Grown-Up.
Here is the full list:
The Right to Roam is a legal principle that allows the public to access and walk across certain private land or countryside without needing the landowner’s permission, as long as they follow specific rules.
More about it below:
The map above shows the rather interesting fact that one two countries ever used the F-14 Tomcat Fighter and one of them was Iran.
More on how this happened below:
The video above was created by Yannick Brouwer and shows where the largest supplier for different types of fruits to the EU comes from each month during the year.
Here’s what he had so say about the map:
The video above was created by quite adept shows where 19 Different Types of Berries Native to North America Grow.
It’s part of a much longer video you can watch below:
The map above shows the congressional election where the most Republicans won seats (1920) and the where the Democrats won the most seats (just 16 years later in 1936).
In 1920, the Republicans won 302 seats compared to just 131 for the Democrats. But in 1936 the Democrats surpassed the Republican high-water mark winning 334 seats to just 88 for the Republicans (Progressives also 7 seats and 3 went to Farmer–Labor).
Here are the totals for all states for both years:
The map above shows the number Admissions of Permanent Residents by Country of Citizenship to Canada between 2015 and 2025. Data comes from the Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) monthly updates.
Here’s the full total for each country below (my numbers are full year to the end of 2025 which is why India is slightly higher):
I created the map above, because I still can’t really believe that New Zeeland escaped any human habitation until sometime between 1280 and 1350 AD!
The map above looks at the Odds Trump will mention a country or US State in his State of The Union Address. The data comes from prediction market sites Polymarket and Kalshi.
Here’s the full list of locations with the odds as of Feb 23rd (odds may have since changed):