The State of the World Atlas: Tenth Edition

The State of the World Atlas: Tenth Edition

by Dan Smith
The State of the World Atlas: Tenth Edition

The State of the World Atlas: Tenth Edition

by Dan Smith

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Overview

The State of the World Atlas is an accessible, unique visual survey of current events and global trends, highlighting the international scope and complexity of many challenges facing the humanity today. With a bold new design, this distinctive atlas presents the latest statistics on international trade and migration, the globalization of work, aging and new health risks (up to and including the COVID-19 pandemic), food and water, energy resources and consumption, literacy, gender equality, wars and peacekeeping, and more. And for the newest edition, special attention has been brought to the way that all of these issues are affected by the ongoing climate crisis. Fascinating, troubling, and surprising, this is an important resource for anyone who seeks to better understand the world around them.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780143135074
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 02/09/2021
Pages: 208
Sales rank: 258,019
Product dimensions: 6.70(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile: 1160L (what's this?)

About the Author

Dan Smith is Secretary General of International Alert, based in London, and former Director of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). In 2007-2011 he was Chairman of the UN Peacebuilding Fund Advisory Group. In 2002 he was awarded an OBE. He is also author of The Atlas of War and Peace and The State of the Middle East.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Who we are 13

States of the world

Population

Life expectancy

Women and men

Ethnicity and diversity

Religious beliefs

Literacy and education

Urbanization

Wealth and poverty 41

Income

Inequality

Quality of life

Transnationals

Banks

Corruption

Debt

How the money's made

Rights and respect 65

Political systems

Religious rights

Human rights abuses

Children's rights

Women's rights

LGBTQ+ rights

Minorities

Freedom

War and peace 95

War this century

Warlords, ganglords, and militia

Military muscle

Mass destruction

Casualties of war

Terrorism

Refugees

Keeping the peace

The new front line

Health of the people 133

Pandemics

Malnutrition

Obesity

Smoking

Cancer

HIV/AIDS

Mental health

Water and sanitation

Living with disease

Health of the planet 167

Planetary boundaries

Biodiversity loss

Water resources

Waste

Oceans

Energy

A changing climate

Combating climate change

A greening world

Sources 198

Index 207

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