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‘May’ in European languages
The month of May is named after Maia, the Roman goddess of growth (her name was thought to be related to the Latin word maior, “larger, (...)
May 4, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Europe: Unemployment Rate by Region in 2016
Eurostat defines an unemployed person as a person aged 15-74 who is:
without work during the reference week,
available to start work (...)
April 27, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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‘April’ in European languages
The name of the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar in most European languages is derived from Latin Aprilis, the etymology of which is (...)
April 8, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Fertility rate by region in Europe
The total fertility rate is defined as the average number of children a woman would have over her lifetime if she were to survive from (...)
April 5, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Percentage of researchers by region in Europe
Being a researcher is probably one of the least mundane jobs in the world, but not everyone can become one, and most people choose a (...)
March 26, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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By the way, have you already seen my brand new web app for non-native speakers of English? It's based on reading texts and learning by having all meanings, pronunciations, grammar forms etc. easily accessible. It looks like this:
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5 weird things you didn’t know about time zones
Most people think that time zones are just stripes of land spreading from the North Pole to the South Pole at regular intervals, but the (...)
March 12, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Male to female sex ratio by country in Europe
The human sex ratio is defined as the ratio of the number of males to the number of females in a population; that is, a sex ratio greater (...)
February 25, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Special characters (diacritics) used in European languages
The “Basic Latin Alphabet”, as defined by the ISO, consists of the following 26 letters and their uppercase variants (and is identical to (...)
February 21, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Migration patterns and population gains and losses in Europe
I have previously written about immigration and emigration in Europe. Of course, emigration effectively cancels out the effect of (...)
February 9, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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Emigration in Europe: Destination countries and percentages of emigrants
Last year, I published a map showing the current state of immigration in Europe. However, I realized that the data contained in the 2015 (...)
January 31, 2017 – Jakub Marian – Maps
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