Maps

Average number of languages spoken by the EU population
The Eurobarometer 386 survey organized by the European Commission provided a lot of insight into linguistic abilities of Europeans, and it (...)
October 6, 2014 – Jakub MarianMaps
Map of public debt in Europe
There seems to be an interesting trend in geographic distribution of public debt in Europe. While Western Europe is traditionally (...)
September 22, 2014 – Jakub MarianMaps
Percentage of EU population able to hold a conversation in Italian (map)
The following map (based on Eurobarometer 386, 2012) shows a few interesting trends. Probably the most surprising is how low the (...)
September 9, 2014 – Jakub MarianItalian, Maps
Map of the percentage of population able to hold a conversation in Spanish in the EU
Spanish is a Romance language, so one would expect it to be spoken mostly in countries where other Romance languages are spoken, and the (...)
July 28, 2014 – Jakub MarianMaps, Spanish
Beer consumption in Europe by country per year per capita (map)
The following map shows interesting geographical trends in beer consumption in Europe. I used several sources, as I wasn’t able to find a (...)
July 21, 2014 – Jakub MarianMaps

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:

Map of the percentage of population able to speak French in the EU by country
French is a Romance language, and as such one would expect the percentage of its speakers to be much higher among native speakers of other (...)
July 14, 2014 – Jakub MarianFrench, Maps
How big are Greenland and Russia in comparison to Africa?
We are all used to seeing the following kind of maps in Google Maps and other map providers (this one, in particular, is taken from Google (...)
July 7, 2014 – Jakub MarianMaps
Average IQ in Europe
Average IQ in Europe by country (map)
When we speak about IQ, it is important to understand that the common idea that IQ measures your “innate” or “genetic” intelligence is a (...)
June 26, 2014 – Jakub MarianCognition, Maps
Map of the percentage of population able to speak Russian in the EU by country
Russian used to be the first foreign language most inhabitants of the former Eastern Bloc learned. Understandably, the number of Russian (...)
June 11, 2014 – Jakub MarianMaps, Russian
Map of the percentage of people speaking German in the EU by country
German used to be a very popular language among educated people from all over Europe before the 20th century, but after World War I, and (...)
June 4, 2014 – Jakub MarianGerman, Maps