Geographies in Depth
These are the world's biggest e-commerce markets
China is the world's biggest e-commerce market, with online sales worth $1.3 trillion in 2020, and projected to increase to almost $2 trillion by 2025.
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Geo-Economics and Politics
亚洲国家占据全球十大电子游戏市场的40%
在全球前10大电子游戏市场中，有四个亚洲国家，还有墨西哥和俄罗斯，只有三个欧洲国家及美国入围。Statista Digital Market Outlook的数据显示，电子游戏实际上是一个在全球范围内非常受欢迎且盈利丰厚的行业，预计2021年全球电子游戏营收将达1546亿美元。
Nature and Biodiversity
How hurricane seasons have changed since 1967
Research shows that 2020 was an extremely busy one for hurricanes, which contrasted with the more subdued season of 2019.
Geo-Economics and Politics
Asian countries make up 40% of the world’s top 10 video gaming markets
Video gaming is a very lucrative and popular industry around the world, with a global revenue of $154.6 billion expected in 2021.
Geo-Economics and Politics
哪个国家拥有的世界遗产最多？
根据联合国教科文组织最新的《世界遗产名录》，意大利目前拥有58个世界遗产地。
Wellbeing and Mental Health
世界上不同国家的人们目前最担心的问题是什么？
在不同国家，人们最担心什么？根据益普索的研究，正在蔓延的新冠肺炎疫情曾在部分地区引发了最高的担忧率，但这绝不再是每个人最关心的问题了。63%的瑞典人说他们担心犯罪和暴力，尽管他们生活在一个相对安全的国家，这一情况令人丧气。此外，这种担忧在墨西哥和美国也是最常见的。
Climate Action
The staggering figures for this year's Earth Overshoot Day
July 29 has been named as 2021's Earth Overshoot Day, whereby all humans on Earth have used up more natural resources than can be reproduced in a year.
Industries in Depth
Which countries have the most UNESCO World Heritage sites?
An announcement of new sites by the UNESCO committee has shown that Italy now has 58 world heritage locations placing it ahead of China.
Wellbeing and Mental Health
What are different countries across the world feeling the most worried about?
Climate change was not the biggest worry in any of the countries surveyed, despite being one of the world's most pressing challenges.
Emerging Technologies
This is how prepared APAC countries are for automation
India, Bangladesh and Pakistan have a high level of employment in sectors such as mining which are likely to face severe future disruption from automation.
Arts and Culture
When was each sport added to the Olympics? This chart shows you
More than 30 new sports have been added since the start of the modern Olympics. This year’s Tokyo Games will debut skateboarding, climbing and surfing.
Fourth Industrial Revolution
This is how many asteroids fly past earth... And how many could be dangerous
There are over 2,000 potentially dangerous Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) in Space, according to NASA. 158 have a diameter of more than one kilometer long.
Climate Action
40 weeks and counting: This chart shows the severity of the U.S. drought
Currently 61% of the continental US is facing droughts of varying severity, this high coverage of area under droughts has been ongoing for around 40 weeks.
你觉得2022年会有多少个表情符号？
2022年可能会发布107个新表情，包括豆类、怀孕的男性以及手指比心（一个在韩国流行歌手中很流行的手势）。此次更新将使明年流行表情符号的数量增至3460个。统一码联盟（Unicode consortium）已建议推出这些表情符号，但最终决定仍未做出。
Emoji count: can you guess how many there will be by 2022?
One hundred and seven new emojis are expected to be introduced over the next year, among them a pregnant man and K-Pop finger heart.