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Here’s an interesting way of looking at the world.

Interesting to see that New Zealand is a right little fatty on fisheries exports which, given the mentality of one particular big fish, is a little scary.

Worldmapper allows you to see the world according to lots of different variables. Using ‘equal area cartograms’, otherwise known as density-equalising maps, the site allows you to view the world with each territory re-sized according to the variable being mapped.

There are a bunch of really good diverse variables to choose from. For instance; carbon emissions, greenhouse gasses, ecological footprint, net emigration and immigration and my favourite - international demonstrations.

NZ, with it’s tiny population is all but invisible at the best of times but, as you would expect, really does almost disappear on a lot of these maps. However we do punch above our weight on some things and that little sliver of a country bloats up like a big fat pig.

It would be good if I could upload my own dataset - hopefully that is in the pipeline for future development.