# Statistics Website that Shrinks or Expands Countries on a Map?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 27, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statistics-website-that-shrinks-or-expands-countries-on-a-map/530665 "2010-02-27T17:42:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statistics-website-that-shrinks-or-expands-countries-on-a-map/530665/1 "2010-02-27T17:42:35Z")

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Some time ago, I saw a website where if you looked up “exports” or “life span” or whatever other statistic, it would morph the map of the world, blowing countries up like a balloon if they were at the high end, or shrinking them down like they’d sucked on a lemon if they were at the low end.

I’m hoping someone can remember where this was and show me the URL.

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**Author:** ![conway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conway)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statistics-website-that-shrinks-or-expands-countries-on-a-map/530665/2 "2010-03-01T16:53:05Z")

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Is this it?

[http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=2](http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=2)

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statistics-website-that-shrinks-or-expands-countries-on-a-map/530665/3 "2010-03-01T23:49:09Z")

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> [@conway](#):
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> Is this it?
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> [http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=2](http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=2)

Yep. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![\_Undecided\_Adrian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/eada6e/32.png) [@\_Undecided\_Adrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Undecided_Adrian)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/statistics-website-that-shrinks-or-expands-countries-on-a-map/530665/4 "2010-03-02T00:15:11Z")

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You might be interested in [gapminder](http://www.gapminder.org/) as well, where the development of the world’s nations is displayed in animations.