Steel is an important component of the modern industry and
economy, as it is vital for the construction of automobiles, buildings and many
other infrastructures and appliances that we use in our daily lives.
The Infographic uses data from the World Steel Association to visualize the top steel-producing countries in the world, and highlights China’s rise to the top, as it now makes up more than half of the world’s steel production.
According to data aggregated by the Global Equality Caucus and The International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA), Conversion therapy is banned in several countries around the world, including Canada, Brazil, Ecuador, Spain, Germany, France, Malta and New Zealand.
According to a landmark report by Amnesty International, the number of people executed under the death penalty increased by 53 percent in 2022, with the global death toll reaching to 883 people, up from 579 the year before. This grades the highest execution rate in five years.
Although it may appear that participation of women in the labor force has increased significantly in recent times, but that is not the case – at least not at the global level. Even though the labor force participation rate for women aged 25-54 has undeniably increased from 67 percent in 1990 to 77 percent in 2021 in high-income countries, situation looks quite differently in all other income groups. According to estimates from the International Labour Organization (ILO), only 61.4 percent of women in prime working age were either employed or actively seeking employment globally in 2022, which is actually a small decline from 62.8 percent in 1990.
Airports can be the most crowded and stressful places in
the world because of the slow-moving queues and bustling gates. Regardless of
the negative aspects associated with commercial air travel, on a general note,
it is an impressive system, with the biggest air transit hubs recording
passenger traffic numbers that rival the populations of large countries.
The Infographic used here has data from Airports Council International (ACI) to rank the top 10 busiest airports in the world, looking at total passengers enplaned and deplaned, with passengers in transit counted once.
It is becoming clearer these days that even after peaceful coexistence for a couple of years, video streaming services will upend DVDs and Blu-rays in the long run, or nonetheless force them into a niche existence. Although the physical formats were considered to be immensely superior in terms of sound and image quality in the initial days of streaming 4K streaming with Dolby Atmos sound is no longer a problem, all thanks to high-bandwidth broadband and mobile connections.
According to a survey by Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), only
8% of the world’s population actually lives in a full, functioning democracy.
Meanwhile, another 37% of population lives in some type of
“flawed democracy”, while 55% of the world does not live in democracy at all,
based on the EIU’s latest Democracy Index Report.
Factors that have caused numerous declines to country democracy scores in recent years include Events such as the war in Ukraine and restrictive, long-lasting COVID-19 measures. Since the source report first began tracking scores in 2006, the global average has fallen from 5.52 to 5.29.
Global music industry revenues have grown by 9 percent in 2022, all credit goes to the continuing growth in streaming subscriptions. According to the IFPI’s latest Global Music Report, 2022 marked the eighth consecutive year of growth for the music industry that had previously struggled with declining revenues for 15 years.
Graduates in STEM – acronym for fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics are in demand globally but often are in short supply. Many countries have tried to encourage their youth to enroll in STEM to facilitate important growth industries like medtech, digital services, mobility or computer sciences. However, countries have had varying success in the matter.
Air pollution is considered to be extreme environmental health hazard to humankind, becoming a reason for over six million deaths a year and an economic cost that is equal to over $8 trillion dollars. This analysis is according to the World Air Quality Report 2022 released on Tuesday by IQAir, a Swiss air quality technology company. The analysis revealed that out of a surveyed 131 countries, regions and territories, only 13 resulted in meeting World Health Organization air guidelines of annual PM2.5 concentrations at or below 5 μg/m3 in 2022, many of which were in Oceania.
Airbnb bookings were seen to be cut by more than 40 percent due to the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020, but were seen to bounce back remarkably well in 2021 and 2022. Driven by the strong uptick in international travel in 2022, Airbnb received bookings more than double compared to 2020 and last year, as the number of nights and experiences booked through the platform surpassed its pre-pandemic extreme. Viewing the gross booking value, Airbnb's performance in 2022 was even more impressive as it exceeded 2019 levels by more than 66 percent, all thanks to average daily rates that were considerably higher last year than they were in 2019.
Plastic when first appeared, it attracted attention as the
miracle material. Plastics made it possible for man to reach moon, it
modernized medicine, and helped make computers and cellphones possible.
Other than these benefits, plastic has a darker side. The
world generates over 350 million tons of plastic waste every year, and over
one-fifth of that is mishandled. As a result, plastic waste can now be found
everywhere on Earth, from the highest peaks to the deepest seas. There is also proof
that plastics at the Nano scale can pass through cell walls.
This infographic takes data from Keeping America Beautiful’s
2020 National Litter Study and asks the question: what is the most littered single-use
plastic item in the United States?
Google is releasing the Immersive View feature within Google
Maps that it first launched in May of 2021, in five cities including London, Los
Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Tokyo.
Immersive View covers 250 landmarks around the world. Its technology is similar to Google Earth, except that it provides more in-detail exploration using a combination of Street View and aerial images.
OpenAI is an Artificial Intelligence research laboratory based
in America consisting of the non-profit OpenAI Incorporated and its for-profit
subsidiary corporation OpenAI Limited Partnership. OpenAI conducts research on Artificial
Intelligence to promote and develop friendly AI in a way that benefits all
humanity.
The new Artificial Intelligence tool ‘ChatGPT’ has gained one
million users just five days after launching in November of last year, according
to information provided by the service itself. The conversational AI bot that
can produce human-like text has been put to a variety of uses, like writing
short stories, prose, music and term papers to programming basic code, solving
math problems and doing translations in different languages. The founder of Microsoft,
Bill Gates has already warned that AI technology like ChatGPT could be substituting
people in white collar jobs, in a short period of time. Microsoft has recently
confirmed a multimillion dollar investment in the U.S. Company ‘OpenAI’ who are
the developers of ChatGPT.
There has been an increase in patent filings by Chinese
enterprises for artificial intelligence products rapidly in the past couple years.
The companies that hold the most active Artificial Intelligence and machine
learning patent families are now tech giant Tencent and search engine provider
Baidu. Their progress is ahead of U.S. firm IBM, South Korea’s Samsung, Chinese
insurance provider Ping An and former AI patent leader Microsoft. The latter
company has been seeing one of its major AI investments come to fruition
recently, as conversational AI bot ChatGPT by Microsoft partner OpenAI has been
making waves. Microsoft suddenly announced another round of funding for OpenAI,
believed to be to the tune of $10 billion.
The World Food Price Index reached to the highest peak in
March 2022 before gradually falling for nine months to December 2022. The question is that what
caused this rush?
There are many factors that contribute to the rising cost of
global food, but disruptions in supply chain and climate change are two most
important drivers for the spike in prices over the most recent years.
The infographic from Brazil Potash explores how these two factors are contributing to the most recent rise in food prices.
The year 2022 has been shaped by rough macroeconomic
headwinds. Millions and millions of dollars were wiped away in public company
market capitalizations, investor confidence decreased, and cost burdens
squeezed consumer pocketbooks.
Considering all factors, many of the world’s leading
businesses experienced harsh declines in market share. Still, a few companies
in key sectors managed to have positive growth over the year.
As 2022 has ended, the infographic shows the leading businesses in the world, using data from Companiesmarketcap.com.
In a new report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), it is declared that 2022 was the sixth warmest year on
record (since 1880), as planet Earth continued its worrying warming trend. According
to research conducted by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information,
regular land and ocean surface temperature of Earth in 2022 was recorded at 0.86
degrees Celsius (1.55 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 20th-century average of
13.9 degrees Celsius (57.0 degrees Fahrenheit),
Rare earth elements (REE) are metals that have many uses in
current key technologies, such as cell phone screens, wind turbines and even
are used for electric motors. As the infographic shows, any one in need any of
the 17 chemical elements will have a tough job sourcing them from anywhere but
China. The People's Republic of China has the world's largest reserves of these
not so rare metals.
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