As Russian President Vladimir Putin pushes deeper into Ukraine, he’s likened himself to Tsar Peter the Great, who waged war on Sweden in the 18th-century, claiming that like his predecessor, he too is reclaiming Russian land. “Peter the Great waged the…
Tankers and cargo ships are currently jammed in front of the European ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp, as shown in this infographic based on a snapshot from FleetMon, an online tracking portal for ships. Further north off the mouth of the Elbe, a number…
Margaret Atwood and her publisher, Random House, are auctioning off a fireproof version of their best-selling book, The Handmaid’s Tale, in protest against the increasing censorship of books in the U.S.Published in 1985, the dystopian novel depicts an …
The global economy was on course for recovery before the war in Ukraine – but this is now being severely impacted by Russian aggression and topped off by disruptions in global supply chains. As this infographic based on the latest OECD Economic Outlook…
In addition to the humanitarian catastrophe, the war in Ukraine has also triggered an inflation crisis that is affecting people all over the world. As this infographic based on the latest OECD Economic Outlook shows, the impact of rising consumer price…
Sea levels have risen by around ten centimeters since 1993, according to NASA. As our chart shows, water levels have risen fairly consistently since that time, at around 3.5mm year on year. This increase is driven by two processes, both related to clim…
Crypto is a notoriously unstable currency market and one which even catches the experts off guard on a regular basis. Looking back over historical data though, Statista analysts have calculated the varying levels of stability in the coins with the larg…
Tesla famously invested $1.5 billion in Bitcoin in February 2021, and while the current crypto market crash has left that outlay looking even more reckless than some observers labelled it at the time, should the notoriously volatile currency bounce bac…
Large companies making billions and billions of dollars in revenue are designed to earn their investors and stakeholders fortunes. Unless—they just don’t? What sounds counterintuitive is not uncommon. The reasons for why large companies that are losing…
India’s GDP grew by 4.1 percent in the first three months of 2022, slightly truncating annual growth in 2021-22 to 8.7 percent due to Omicron restrictions putting a damper on economic activity in this last quarter of the Indian fiscal year.However, loo…