World by Map: Info

Java

A map viewer illustrates the statistics by dynamic thematic maps. Furthermore, a diagram viewer is provided. For executing both applets, Java must be enabled. Java 1.2 is sufficient, i.e. Sun's JRE is typically required.

JavaScript

Launching the applets and the communication between the web pages and the applets need JavaScript. Furthermore, the presented tables allow a dynamic sorting of the table content. Also this feature requires that JavaScript be enabled.

XHTML and CCS

This web site is tested by and optimized for Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla Firefox 2. The (transitional) XHTML 1.0 standard is observed and valid CSS is used.

Tables

[Click on country name]: shows the selected country in the map viewer.

[Click on a table heading]: sorts the table and depicts (for "Total", "per Capita", "per Square km") the corresponding data column by the map and the diagram viewer.

Map Viewer

Zooms in by factor 2.

Zooms out by factor 2.

Zooms to the complete map view.

Changes to the diagram viewer.

Sets the pan mode, i.e. the map will be moved if the mouse cursor is dragged.

Sets the window mode, i.e. a zoom window will be defined if the mouse cursor is dragged.

[Click on a country]: the charactistics of the country will be depicted and it will be highlighted in the table.

[Click on the map border buttons]: the map is moved in the corresponding direction.

[Menu]: allows changing the depicted data column ("Total", "per Capita", "per Square km").

[Menu]: allows depicting a legend (requires to open a popup window).

Diagram Viewer

Changes to the map viewer.

[Name]: sorts the diagram according to the country name.

[Size]: sorts the diagram according to the current data column.

[Menu]: allows changing between bar chart ("Size") and pie chart ("Portion").

[Menu]: allows changing the depicted data column ("Total", "per Capita", "per Square km").

[Menu]: allows selecting the depicted countries.

Data

The 'per Capital' values are calculated using the population at the given date of information according to the CIA World Factbook of the respective year. For the 'per Square km' values, the current area figures given on the Land Area page are used.

References

Most charts are based on data from the CIA World Factbook.

Further population figures are provided by City Population.