If you didn't know, 718 billion is only a little more than 266 billion

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LaLongueCarabine on August 22nd, 2020 at 12:39 UTC »

It's twice as much as 51 billion

TheHarridan on August 22nd, 2020 at 13:22 UTC »

It used to be conventional to use a little sawtooth “break” in a column when you were limited by space, to make it obvious that the column wasn’t proportional, and I just realized I don’t think I’ve seen that in a long time. Either graphs are big enough to fit proportional columns, or they just don’t bother. It might be just an intentional attempt to misrepresent data, but it’s weird that it seems like nobody does it anymore. Or maybe it’s just me.

Filth_ on August 22nd, 2020 at 14:05 UTC »

To scale.

Edit: Here's the damn countries, stop asking.