A Fascinating World Map That Plots What Each Country Does Better Than Any Other

International Number Ones

David McCandless of Information is Beautiful, whose visualizations we’ve previously posted, has created a really fascinating world map for 2016 that plots what each country does better than any other in the world. Being the best at something doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s good or even acceptable in any way. For example, the United States is best at spam emails, while China is best at jailed journalists, Georgia is best at homophobia and Somalia is best at female genital mutilation.

Because every country is the best at something.

The original map from 2010 to compare and contrast what has and hasn’t changed over the past six years.

2010

Lori Dorn
Lori Dorn

Lori is a Laughing Squid Contributing Editor based in New York City who has been writing blog posts for over a decade. She also enjoys making jewelry, playing guitar, taking photos and mixing craft cocktails.