Energy Generation/ Consumption [322]

87% of the world energy consumption is generated from fossil fuels (gas, coal, oil). The rest is equally divided between nuclear (6%) and hydro energy (7%).
Alternative energy sources such as wind, solar and ocean wave/tidal power account for barely 0.1 %. Only in Spain and Germany do these sources supply up to 1% of the total consumption.
Yellow-green: Nuclear - Black: Fossil - Blue: Hyrdo - Silver line: Alternative.
Breadth of bars indicate regional consumption volume.

Internet Free Zones [328]

Less than one percent of the population has access to the Internet in these countries.

First Female Parliamentarian [279]

The red line on this globe traces temporally, country by country, the first election of a female to parliament following the precedent set by Finland in 1907 through to 1946 when the first female parliamentarian in Japan was elected to office.

Mobile Teledensity 2006 [327]

Mobile phone density is shown in four levels:
Countries where people have less than 10 phones for 100 people are not covered; 10 to 50 phones per inhabitants are lightly crisscrossed; 51 to 99% is the next step and countries with more mobile phones than citizens have the highest density.