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.

Over 50 full-colour world maps and graphics break down hardcore statistics to provide a compelling analysis of all the political, social, economic and ecological nightmares that keep us awake at night. The world's car population has grown five times as fast as the human population over the last 50 years. Wal-Mart's sales revenue exceeds the GDP of 150 countries. Climate change may put 2.7 billion at risk of armed conflict. Germany generates more tourists than anywhere else. Americans use 160 times more water than people in Rwanda. If you want to get behind the headlines and understand the world - from urbanization to globalization, terrorism to tourism, military spending to human rights - The State of the World Atlas is unmatched.

This widely acclaimed atlas provides a unique view of current affairs by translating key political, economic, and social indicators into 50 full-color maps and graphics. From world trade to personal wealth, from AIDS to arms, it reveals international trends and differences in an easily understandable form.

"The State of the World Atlas provides a unique visual survey of economic, political, and social trends as the world enters the twenty first century. By translating key indicators into full-color maps and graphics, it presents in easily understandable form the new challenges posed to nations around the world by powerful security alliances; a global economy fueled by international finance and multinational corporations; popular pressures for decentralization and greater democracy; and an upsurge of nationalism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Provides information about the geography of each of the continents, including landforms, bodies of water, climate, plants, animals, population, and flags, and about the poles and the oceans.