Thursday, January 25, 2007

Gentlemen, Start Your Comparisons

There is nothing like a bit of global comparison to get a sense of proportion in your life. Here are two sites to help with that.

The Global Rich List is a site where you enter your annual income and see what percentile of the world's population you are in.

Those in search of more specific comparisons should go to WorldMapper. This was developed by University of Sheffield’s Social and Spatial Inequalities Research Group. It displays maps of the world but with country sizes made proportional to some data such as income over $200 per day or population or number of tractors.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I hadn't looked at the Global Rich List in a while. It's very chastening. I'm in the top 1% according to it, which seems way too high. Interesting too if one factors in the difference say between 30k and 50k.

Thanks for that... I think :(

Anonymous said...

Calling Lorenzo - don't forget to get your tip in for Match Weekend 2 of the 6N tipping competition over at www.infactah.com!

Pavement Trauma said...

Sorry I forgot. Probably subconsciously suppresed the memory of it, as I got the first round so badly wrong.

Bitterly disappointed with the result of the match this afternoon.