View in Google Earth

More and more international institutions are opening up there statistics databases and publish them online. Most of these statistics have a geographical component and Google Earth is a perfect tool to visualize these statistics.

One of the organizations that made statistics available is UNAIDS, the United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS. I used Google Earth to visualize the country prevalence rates among adults for 149 countries in 2005 they provide. I used icon size to diferentiate between countries with low, moderate and high prevalence rates and the balloons provide a visual representation of the percentage of adult population infected for each counry.


Sources: UNData, UNAIDS