STANDARDS
Common Core: RH.6-8.1, RH.6-8.7, RI.6-8.7, SL.6-8.1
C3 (D2/6-8): Civ.1, Eco.1, Eco.13, Geo.5
NCSS: Production, distribution, and consumption; Culture
2018 Snapshots
Infographics convey all sorts of statistical data in quick, easy-to-grasp bursts. Use these charts, graphs, and facts to explore the world.
Most Instagrammed Places
By number of tags per tourist attraction
Disneyland California
14,615,952
Eiffel Tower Paris, France
7,253,011
Walt Disney World Florida
5,465,098
South Beach Florida
4,689,396
Berlin Wall Berlin, Germany
4,595,501
SOURCE: TravelBird
Coffee Capitals
Most Starbucks locations, by city
Seoul, South Korea
284
New York, New York
277
Shanghai, China
256
London, U.K.
202
Chicago, Illinois
164
SOURCE: Starbucks.com
Happy and They Know It
The world’s happiest countries
1. Norway
2. Denmark
3. Iceland
4. Switzerland
5. Finland
6. Netherlands
7. Canada
8. New Zealand
9. Australia
10. Sweden
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14. United States
SOURCE: World Happiness Report 2017
The World’s Top Languages
By number of native speakers*
Chinese (all dialects)
1.3 billion
Spanish
437 million
English
372 million
Arabic (all variations)
295 million
Hindi
260 million
*A native speaker is one who has spoken the language since earliest childhood.
SOURCE: Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 2017
Fleeing Home
Most refugees by country of origin
Syria
5.5 million
Afghanistan
2.5 million
South Sudan
1.4 million
Somalia
1 million
Sudan
651,000
Democratic Republic of the Congo
537,000
Central African Republic
491,000
Myanmar
490,000
Eritrea
459,000
Burundi
408,000
SOURCE: The World Bank, 2017
QUESTIONS
1. The happiest country is on which continent?
2. What is the world’s population?
3. Seoul has how many more Starbucks than the other Asian city listed?
4. How many refugees are from South Sudan and Somalia combined?
5. Which place has the most Instagram tags?
6. Which country listed comes closest to the world average of 4,961 daily steps?
7. What, do you think, makes a country “happy”?
8. How much more time per day do Americans spend watching TV than Russians?
9. What effect might internet access have on a country’s people?
10. What might account for the large number of refugees from Syria?
