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

______________

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?

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