A recent article published by The Lancet shows that obesity is becoming a bigger world health problem than being underweight. They used population-based data sources, with more than 19.2 million adult participants in 186 of 200 countries, and found that the number of obese people has increased from 105 million in 1975 to 641 million in 2014.

The World Health Organization also publishes data about obesity and overweight, and the overweight share (BMI > 25) is more than half of the population in almost all industrialized countries in the world:

This problem is particularly bad in the Pacific Islands.

The news cycle during the last couple of days has been dominated by the Panama Papers. These are a leaked set of 11.5 million confidential documents that provide detailed information about 214,000 offshore companies listed by a Panamanian law firm. Many of those shell companies were set up abroad by world leaders, politicians, and associates around the world.

The map above shows the countries that have been mentioned in the Panama Papers.

This morning I was reading news about the discussion in the US primaries related to the minimum wage in the US, particularly in NY and CA. Wikipedia contains an article tracking the minimum wage worldwide. The map above summarizes the data.

Picture taken in Görlitzer Park last weekend. It was a sunny and warm Saturday, so people poured into the cafes and parks in Berlin! Next page