The Penguin State of the World Atlas: Ninth Edition [Paperback]

The completely up-to-date edition of a comprehensive overview of the elements that define our world

Now in its ninth edition, the widely praisedPenguin State of the World Atlasremains an accessible, unique visual survey of current events and global trends. Completely revised and updated, this distinctive atlas presents the latest statistics on communications and information technology, international trade, globalization of work, aging and new health risks, food and water, energy resources and consumption, global warming and biodiversity, literacy, gender equality, wars and peacekeeping, and more. Fascinating, troubling, and surprising, this is one atlas no student of the world should be without.

Praise for the 8th edition ofThe Penguin State of the World Atlas:

"TheState of the World Atlasis something else—an occasion of wit and an act of subversion . . . These are the bad dreams of the modern world, given color and shape and submitted to a grid that can be grasped instantaneously." —The New York Times

"Unique and uniquely beautiful . . . A single map here tells us more about the world today than a dozen abstracts or scholarly tomes." —Los Angeles Times

"A striking new approach to cartography . . . no-one wishing to keep a grip on the reality of the world should be without these books."—International Herald Tribune

"Packed with fascinating facts and figures on everything from the international drugs industry to climate change."—Evening StandardDan Smithis Secretary General of International Alert, based in London, and former Director of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). In 2007-2011 he was Chairman of the UN Peacebuilding Fund Advisory Group. In 2002 he was awarded an OBE. He is also author ofThe Atlas of War and PeaceandThe State of the Middl�