The eight UN Millennium Development Goals aim to diminish global poverty and to secure education and health. We designed several projects and a series of maps to help visualize these issues.


Millennium Development Atlas: Upgrade



The latest data, charts and progress assessments in one interface: the Millennium Development Atlas. Combined with an updated series of animated cartograms, this new site (in Dutch) offers a wealth of data and content. See below for the earlier series of cartograms.



World Bank Atlas



For the World Bank web site we developed a fully interactive, multilangual Atlas, containing world maps with country and region information about 16 themes. Users can look at regional trends and resize each map to learn which countries are most affected.



Our other maps about the Millennium Development Goals also make use of proportional cartography, in the shape of a cartogram. On maps like these the size of a country directly reflects the amount of people or budget concerned. Please contact us if you are interested to use the maps.

UNFPA Aidsclock



The UNFPA Aidsclock shows the current number of people infected with HIV, as a tool to communicate on the importance of fighting HIV.
Mapping Worlds designed a map animation to display key HIV data and related content.


Millennium Goals Atlas

For NCDO, an institution to promote international cooperation in the Netherlands, Mapping Worlds crafted a series of cartograms about the goals. The maps are available in print for education and campaigning purposes.

Themes: Poverty; Hunger; Education for All; Education (gender parity); Child Mortality; Maternal Mortality; HIV/AIDS; Environment: CO2; Environment: Water; Development Aid; Debt; Trade: GDP.



Poverty


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The map on poverty displays all low and middle income countries. The countries are resized proprotional to the amount of people living on less than $1 a day: the absolute poverty line. For quite a number of countries data are not available. We have included them in a lighter shade, based on our own estimates.



Hunger


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The map on hunger shows the amount of people below the minimum level of dietary energy consumption: an estimated 830 million.




Education For All


In 2015, all children should be enrolled in primary education. This map shows the work yet to be done. It illustrates the amount of children out-of-school. Countries are represented proportional to their absolute value.



Gender Equality


A world map on gender equality in education (Goal #3). Preferably in 2005, their should be gender parity in primary education. In 2015, this should be the case for all levels of education. The size of the countries shows the total amount of children enrolled in primary and secondary education. The colour indicates if there are as many girls as boys (pink=yes, blue=no).



Child Mortality


Annually, an estimated 10 million children die before their 5th birthday. In 2015 Child Mortality Rates should have been lowered by two-thirds (Goal #4). The size of a country on this map illustrates the annual amount of children expected to die before their 5th birthday.



Maternal Mortality



Annually, about half a million women die during pregnancy or as a consequence of childbirth.


The HIV World Map


This map shows the amount of persons (0-49 year) affected with HIV (UNAIDS data on 2003). Countries are represented proportional to their absolute value.


Sustainable Environment


The seventh Millennium Development Goal calls for a sustainable environment. One of the indicators used to measure this is the amount of carbindioxide emissions, one of the greenhouse gasses. This map shows the amount of emissions per country.


Access To Water


Over a billion people lack access to safe drinking water, a first priority to prevent diseases. Every country on this map is resized relative to the number of people without access to water.

Development


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The map represents OECD-countries proportional to their budget for Development Aid. The silver contours reflect current levels of aid. The gold contours reflect the level of 0.7% of Gross National Income, agreed upon in 2002. For some countries the silver and gold contours are of the same size. These countries spend 0.7% or more of GNI on aid. Most countries though show a gap: the amount of budget due.



Debt


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The map shows the total amount of external debt by low income countries. All countries are represented proportional to their total debt. Countries eligible for the Highly Indebted Poor Countries-initiative are shaded. Most of these countries might see their debts cancelled.


Trade


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The map shows the economical clout of countries on the international market. All countries are resized to their Gross National Product 2004.