Work – Worldmapper

Child Labour

Worldmapper — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 19:00:03 +0000

This cartogram uses UNESCO data to highlight where the phenomenon is most widespread, and how it relates to the number of children in each country. The map is proportional to the number of children aged 5 to 14 years in each country, while the colours indicate the prevalence of child labour in each country. Child labour is a major problem in the world’s poorest countries where more than a quarter of children are engaged in such activities that are harmful to their health and their development. The majority of child labour takes place in agriculture (58.6 per cent of child labour according to ILO estimates). The cartogram also demonstrates that in absolute numbers Asia and the Pacific play an equally prominent role. And while there is a lack of data for the wealthiest parts of the world, including China, child labour is still an issue in upper- and middle-income countries with the ILO estimating 12 out of 168 million child workers being in these countries.

Anaesthesiologists

tina-gotthardt — Sun, 10 Mar 2019 10:33:42 +0000

By using the WFSA's Workforce data on the absolute number of Physician Anaesthesia Providers (PAPs) which was collected in the 2015/2016 workforce survey and updated and displayed in the Workforce Map, and each country's population data, WorldMapper was able to distort country size depending on the number of PAPs. In doing so, they were able to illustrate the unequal distribution of PAPs around the world. The highest number of PAPs per 100 000 inhabitants can be found in Monaco (60), Austria (39), San Marino (38) and Denmark (34). More than 20 countries have more than 20 anaesthesiologists per 100 000 inhabitants, all are highly developed countries, mostly from Europe and North America. More than 50 countries have only 1 or fewer anaesthesiologists per 100 000 inhabitants, most of these countries are from the African continent, from Asia there are Laos, Nepal, Bangladesh and Indonesia among them. This demonstrates the urgent need to scale-up the anaesthesia workforce in many areas of the world, most notably in sub-Saharan Africa.

Industrial Workers

tina-gotthardt — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 21:06:09 +0000

This map shows the proportion of all people employed in the Industry sector in 2017. The industry sector consists of mining and quarrying, manufacturing, construction, and public utilities (electricity, gas, and water).

Data sources
This map uses data by World Bank, (International Labour Organization, ILOSTAT database) (last accessed October 2018). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets. Data for this map will soon be available as a download.

Youth Unemployment 2015

tina-gotthardt — Mon, 14 May 2018 12:01:26 +0000

This map shows the proportion of unemployed youth living there.

Data sources
This map uses data by UN Human Development Report (last accessed March 2018). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets. Data for this map will soon be available as a download.

Service Workers

tina-gotthardt — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 21:26:20 +0000

This map shows the proportion of worldwide service workers living there in 2015.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets. Data for this map will soon be available as a download.

Unemployment 2015

tina-gotthardt — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 21:56:17 +0000

This map shows the proportion of all unemployed workers living there.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets. Data for this map will soon be available as a download.

Agricultural Workers

tina-gotthardt — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 21:18:31 +0000

The country with the highest number of people working in agriculture is India, followed by Indonesia and Ethiopia. The populations of HongKong, San Marino and Argentina have the lowest proportions of agricultural workers. Out of the 6 countries where more than 70 per cent of the labour force working in agriculture 5 are in Africa, with Madagascar in the lead. Many of the workers, especially in the develpping countries are women. In Burundi around 95 per cent of the female labour force works in the agricultural sector, in ten more countries that rate is over 80 per cent, all of them in Africa or South and South-East Asia. According to the FAO the agricultural sector 'is underperforming in many countries in part because women, who are often a crucial resource in agriculture and the rural economy, face constraints that reduce their productivity. Aggregate data shows that women comprise about 43 percent of the agricultural labour force globally and in developing countries.'

Employment 2015

tina-gotthardt — Mon, 02 Apr 2018 21:39:33 +0000

This map shows the proportion of all employed workers living there.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets. Data for this map will soon be available as a download.