Martin Armstrong
14 posts
Data Journalist
The State Of Gender Equality Across The EU
Europe still has a long way to go to achieve full equality for women. This is according to the Gender…
2023-03-08
Where Corruption Is Rampant
Transparency International has released its 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index which gauges levels of perceived public sector corruption in 180 countries and territories…
2023-02-01
2022 In Google Searches
2022 has been eventful, to say the least, and a look at the biggest trending Google searches this year can…
2022-12-14
How Global GDP Has Evolved
One of the most widely used indicators of economic prosperity is gross domestic product (GDP). It measures the monetary value of all…
2022-10-28
The Legal Status Of Abortion Worldwide
According to a leaked draft opinion reported on by Politico, the U.S. supreme court has provisionally voted to…
2022-06-25
The Russia-Ukraine Military Imbalance
The fact that Russia has a larger military than Ukraine will hardly come as a surprise to most, but the…
2022-02-02
The Best Cities for International Students
The city in which someone studies can have a massive impact not only on their time at university, but…
2022-01-20
How Much Do Countries Spend on Education?
When it comes to education, there are not only big differences in attainment levels across the world, but also…
2021-09-21
The World’s Safest Cities 2021
The Economist Intelligence Unit has published its 2021 Safe Cities Index, ranking 60 major global cities across 76 indicators…
2021-08-30
How the World Commutes
The latest results from Statista’s Global Consumer Survey have revealed how people around the world commute to work, school or…
2021-06-22
The Huge Carbon Footprint of Tropical Deforestation
If tropical deforestation was a country, it would have the third largest carbon footprint in the world. According…
2021-06-09
Rent Or Own? Location Is Everything
Location is famously everything when it comes to real estate, but as data from the Statista Global Consumer Survey shows,…
2021-04-28
Majority Of Young Women Have Been Sexually Harassed
Sarah Everard was walking home on 3 March when she was kidnapped and murdered by an off-duty Metropolitan…
2021-03-16
How The Electoral Votes Are Distributed
The result of the U.S. election hangs not on the total number of votes received by each candidate, but rather…
2020-11-03