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Countries like France, Italy and Turkey have huge disparities in employment rates between regions. But no country has bigger regional variations than Canada, which will probably come as a surprise to most people.

According to the Copernicus June 2026 report, this month of June was the hottest ever recorded in Europe, standing at +3°C above pre-industrial averages. France was the worst affected by the heat waves and so it's June average soaring +9°C above pre-industrial averages. July is well...

Use of Instagram, TikTok, X/Twitter and Snapchat sharply decreases with age. Facebook and Pinterest are considerably more popular among women than men, while Reddit has the highest percentage of male users. College educated and higher earning individuals are more likely than average to use...

Share of formal sector workers whose job legally requires a government-issued licence Countries in Northern and Western Europe are less controlling. India, South Africa and Australia are the most controlling.

Population density of Europe around 1600

A lot of people outside the US do not realize just how much taxes can vary between states. The difference between US states in this regard is often larger than between European countries. Many people also believe that taxes are lower in the United States than in Europe, but it really depends on...

Have you noticed how of the 7 teams that remain today all of them, except Norway, are in the top 10 of birth places of World Cup players? It's like those countries are breeding grounds for the world's best players that they are then exporting to other countries, but probably keeping the best for...

Long story short: On 9 July 2026, the European Parliament voted on whether to extend the temporary “Chat Control 1.0” regime that allows tech companies to scan private messages and emails for child sexual abuse material (CSAM). A majority of MEPs present voted against the measure (314 to 276)...

Although I tend to agree, it would be very hard to enforce teams based on ethnicities. However, it can easily be based on citizenship and country of birth. In previous World Cups the percentage of players who did not play for their country of birth was around 10% but this year it is 23.2%...

The top 0.1% of Americans are close to owning 15% of the country's wealth. The top 10% now owns almost 70% of the total wealth.

Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF)—often simply referred to as "investment" in economic terms—measures how much money an economy is actively putting into productive assets like machinery, buildings, and infrastructure, rather than immediate consumption. Because it isolates new and second-hand...

Ethiopia is currently constructing the largest airport in the world, which will have a capacity of 110 million passengers annually. It should be completed in 2030. This video shows what it will look like. Quite stunning.

Change in permanent migration between 2019 and 2024 Could you have guessed that Poland, Lithuania and Spain were the countries with the biggest increase in the number of long-term immigrants recently? In contrast, less and less people are moving to countries like Germany, Sweden, and Norway.

Percentage of obese and overweight adults in 2024.

It seems that the majority of parents in Western countries are now in favor of banning social media for children and teenager under 16 years old. There are good arguments in favor of that. The problem has always been the implementation itself. The UK has just passed the ban on social media for...

The reason why topics such as abortion and immigration are so controversial in the US is mainly because Evangelical Christians hold such strong negative views about both, which clash not just with the beliefs of Atheists and Agnostics, but also with those of Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, Catholics...

College students were given a list of 20 potential "hot topics" and asked which ones are the most uncomfortable to discuss on their campus. I'm surprised that just discussing abortion is still such a taboo in US society, even among college students who are by definition young and educated...

An interesting study called Danish Exceptionalism: Explaining the Unique Increase in Social Trust Over the Past 30 Years show us something unexpected. A lot of Americans today argue that the Nordic model could not be applied to American society because of the low level of trust between...

Diffusion of weighing technology Source: Nicola Ialongo, Lorenz Rahmstorf

Rapid urbanisation: in 2000, there were only two African cities with more than 5 million inhabitants; today there are nearly twenty, and by 2050 there will be twice that number. There are already 106 African cities with at least 1 million inhabitants! The craziest thing is that Kenya...