Your friendly neighbourhood Stats Guy is still on parental leave for another four weeks. So instead of my weekly data-driven column I am going to share some of my all-time favourite maps.

Today I am stretching the definition of “map” to show you one of my favourite data visualisations.

A surprisingly stubborn piece of misinformation that occasionally resurfaces online claims that more humans are alive today than ever lived before.

This feeds beautifully into a fear-mongering narrative about humanity destroying itself, but it’s simply........

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