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Registered inventions: The bar sizes show, for each country, the number of applicants to register inventions, counted as patent families. A patent family is a set of inter-related applications on the same subject. Statistics based on patent families eliminate double counts (i.e. when the same invention is registered in different patent offices).
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Movements of people: migration and tourism: The map shows 'moving to work and escape poverty': Migration between and inside world regions from 1995 to 2004. Colors show regional migratory balance (surplus or deficit), arrows show major movements between and inside regions. The graph shows 'travelling for leisure': trends in number of tourists since 1950 and projections to 2020.
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Environmental factors and conflicts possibly causing migration: Colors show Human development Index ranking. Symbols locate possible causes of displacements: environmental upheavals related to climate change and major conflicts since 2000.
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Shortening time lapse before mass use of technological inventions: Timeline describing the ever-shortening time taken by a selection of inventions (telephone, radio, TV, Internet..) to reach a quarter of the population in the US.
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The weight of trade: Trend of exports as a percentage of gross domestic product
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Various human health risks in relation to development and economic growth and Causes of death: Top graph: From traditional to modern health risks, this “health transition” scheme describes the relation between development and health, distinguishing behavioural risks and the correlated diseases and death causes. Some risks are specifically related to developing countries (blue part of the scheme), others are typically worrying in developed countries (brown part) and some occur everywhere (blue and brown intersection). Bottom graph: Comparison between 2008 and 2030 projected causes of death for 2 income groups.showing the growing projected imoortance of cardiovascular diseases and cancers.
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Shift in trade partner: Top five partners in trade of China, the European Union, the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa for 2006 and projections for 2050
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Share of global exports: Share of world exports evolution (1980 to 2009) for selected export regions or countries
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Balance between flows making up development and redevelopment: Located in Data and maps › Maps and graphs
Economic growth continues, faster in emerging economies: Trend of Gross Domestic Product in selected countries and world regions. Indexed values (index=100 in 2000).
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