Interactive Charts
The following charts are interactive data visualisations from figures included in the book. These charts allow you to explore the underlying data or share them on social media. To view the interactive charts, click the respective figure title to expand (or close) a section.
Figure 1.1: Frequency of use of the term ‘crisis’ in the English language, 1800–2019
Figure 1.2: What the rest of the world is most concerned about, 2022–24
Figure 2.1: How economists tend to report global trends in poverty over time
Figure 2.2: The reported rise & fall in extreme poverty in the world: an economist’s view
Figure 3.1: ‘Tick up to three issues’ – what people care most about, UK, 2011–24
Figure 3.2: How size of birth cohort influences immigration and emigration
Figure 4.1: All deaths due to war in the world, by state, 1989–2022
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Figure 4.2: Share of wealth for richest 1% in four countries, 1895 onwards
Figure 5.1: How much more likely people are to die in the US, by age, 2020s
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Figure 5.2: How the US compares in terms of life expectancy trends over time
Figure 5.3: Life expectancy in US and England, by household income, in 2022
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Figure 5.4: Adults who believe a single secretive group rules the world, 2021
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Figure 6.1: Global emissions of carbon dioxide by income group, In 2019
Figure 6.2: Location of people who believe climate change is a hoax, 2020
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Figure 7.1: Cataclysmic scenarios for human population, 2020–2100
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Figure 7.2: More cataclysmic scenarios for human population, 2020–2100
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Figure 7.3: Going hungry is caused by poverty and inequality – not by droughts
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Figure 8.1: Frequency of mentions of inequality, American Sociological Review, 1936–2019
Figure 8.2: World Bank’s 2020 ‘nowcast’ for global poverty rates, 2015–22
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