Visualizing World Birth and Death Rates

This is a simulation.

A little more information on this simulation is in this blog post .

This visualization was put together using:

The d3 javascript library by Michael Bostock
Interface design based on that used in my collaboration with Bill Snebold on the US Birth/Death Visualization
World geometry data from this 50m data file used in this example by Michael Bostock
Population data primarily from the CIA Factbook population data, with some data from wikipedia's list of populations
Birth rate data primarily from the CIA Factbook birth rates with some data from wikipedia's list of birth rates
Death rate data primarily from the CIA Factbook death rates with some data from wikipedia's list of death rates
Data for US counties' latitude/longitude from this data file by Michael Bostock
Data for "representative" latitude and longitude point of each country from Socrata OpenData
The 2010 population data for "Places" from US Census, which contains census information for about 30,000 "places" (cities, towns, census designated places, etc.) in the US
Flag images from Jakob Flierl's ISO Country Flags Collection
Country codes and names from Luke Duncalfe's ISO-3166 Country Lists with UN Regional Codes
World city names, populations, and latitude/longitude from Josh Smith's worldwide-city-database on github, which itself is based on the Maxmind WorldCities Database
The mouseover tooltip is an extension of that used in this d3 example by iweczek

This product includes data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com/.

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B.F. Lyon

World Births and Deaths in Real-Time (Beta)

Births

Deaths