Best Visualizations of June on the Voronoi App

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At the end of 2023, we publicly launched Voronoi, our free new data discovery app!

The initial response from both users and creators has been incredible. We now have millions of in-app views, and there are already more than 1,500 interesting visualizations to discover, many of which will never be published on Visual Capitalist.

For that reason, we’ve chosen to highlight some of the most popular visualizations and creators from June in this roundup. To see them and many others, make sure to download the app!

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Let’s take a look at a popular creator worth highlighting, a top “Editor’s Pick” of the month, and also the most popular and most commented on visuals.

POPULAR CREATOR Utility

Visual Capitalist isn’t the only creator on the Voronoi app.

Instead, it features incredible data-driven charts and stories from many of the world’s best creators, like Utility.

Utility has been one of the most followed and popular creators in the last two months, covering a wide range of topics like:

Changes in millionaire populations over the last decade, by country Poll results on if U.S. consumers will buy Chinese cars The fast food brands that consumers see as the “fanciest” How many people in the U.S. live in walkable neighborhoods

Make sure to follow Utility on Voronoi today to see many charts, maps, and visualizations on a wide range of exciting topics.

View all visuals from Utility on Voronoi today.

MOST VIEWED Mapped: The Income Needed to be Comfortable, by U.S. State

How much money does one person need to take home each year, to feel “comfortable” financially?

This map from Visual Capitalist looks at numbers by U.S. state, taking into account household expenses, discretionary spending, saving and investing, and other factors.

The state with the highest income needed to live comfortably is Massachusetts ($116k/year), while West Virginia was the cheapest ($79k/year). There are many little surprises in the data, however, that make this one interesting.

Get the data behind this visual on Voronoi today.

EDITOR’S PICK Internet Satellite Companies Compared

One of the recent picks in our Editor’s Pick feed on the app is from creator Made Visual, and it shows constellations of satellites providing internet access.

This visual really showcases SpaceX’s

Labour’s Green Plan to Seduce Pension Funds

The UK’s main opposition party is predicted to claim an emphatic win at the upcoming election on a bold climate agenda – and pension funds are being asked to fund it.

How do you pay for a multi-trillion-pound energy transition when you have no money? That’s an awkward question facing the British Labour Party, which polls suggest is on track to win a landslide victory in the UK general election next week. Most forecasts predict the biggest ever defeat for the…

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Time to Break Down Closed Doors

Tesla is under pressure from investors, as former employees strain against arbitration ties. 

Multi-billionaire Elon Musk has never been one to shy away from the spotlight.   In recent weeks, he dominated headlines again as shareholders in his US-based automotive and clean energy company Tesla gathered for its annual general meeting (AGM) on 13 June to vote on the CEO’s proposed historic US$56…

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Visualized: Renewable Energy Capacity Through Time (2000–2023)

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June 18, 2024 Article & Editing Graphics & Design Visualized: Renewable Energy Capacity Through Time (2000–2023)

Global renewable energy capacity has grown by 415% since 2000, or at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.4%.

However, many large and wealthy regions, including the United States and Europe, maintain lower average annual renewable capacity growth.

This chart, created in partnership with the National Public Utilities Council, shows how each world region has contributed to the growth in renewable energy capacity since 2000, using the latest data release from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Renewable Energy Trends in Developed Economies

Between 2000 and 2023, global renewable capacity increased from 0.8 to 3.9 TW. This was led by China, which added 1.4 TW, more than Africa, Europe, and North America combined. Renewable energy here includes solar, wind, hydro (excluding pumped storage), bioenergy, geothermal, and marine energy.

During this period, capacity growth in the U.S. has been slightly faster than what’s been seen in Europe, but much slower than in China. However, U.S. renewable growth is expected to accelerate due to the recent implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act.

Overall, Asia has shown the greatest regional growth, with China being the standout country in the continent.

Region2000–2023 Growth10-Year Growth (2013–2023)1-Year Growth (2022–2023) Europe313%88%10% China1,817%304%26% United States322%126%9% Canada57%25%2%

It’s worth noting that Canada has fared significantly worse than the rest of the developed world since 2000 when it comes to renewable capacity additions. Between 2000 and 2023, the country’s renewable capacity grew only by 57%.  

Trends in Developing Economies

Africa’s renewable capacity has grown by 184% since 2000 with a CAGR of 4%. 

India is now the most populous country on the planet, and its renewable capacity is also rapidly growing. From 2000–2023, it grew by 604%, or a CAGR of 8%.

It is worth remembering that energy capacity is not always equivalent to power generation. This is especially the case for intermittent sources of energy, such as solar and wind, which depend on natural phenomena.

Despite the widespread growth of renewable energy worldwide, IRENA emphasizes that global renewable generation capacity must triple from its 2023 levels by 2030 to meet the ambitious targets set by the

What Europe’s Rightward Shift Means for Investors

The EU has engaged in a flurry of sustainable lawmaking in the past five years, but right-wing groups’ growing influence in parliament may imperil the achievements of its Green Deal.

As the European parliamentary election results trickled in on Sunday evening, it quickly became clear that the polls were correct: Europe had lurched to the right. Greens and liberals lost seats. Climate-sceptic far-right parties gained them, most dramatically in France and Germany. And while across Europe the dominant alliance between…

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From Co-benefits to Core Benefits

Social impacts on local communities can make or break carbon sequestration projects. 

The prime purpose of voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) is to limit climate change, by allocating capital to projects that offset, remove or avoid emissions through the generation and sale of credits.  Despite controversies, VCMs are growing. A 2023 survey of businesses across the US, UK and Europe found that 89%…

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Best Visualizations of May on the Voronoi App

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May 30, 2024

At the end of 2023, we publicly launched Voronoi, our free new data discovery app!

The initial response from both users and creators has been incredible. We now have millions of in-app views, and there are already more than 1,000 interesting visualizations to discover, many of which will never be published on Visual Capitalist.

For that reason, we’ve chosen to highlight some of the most popular visualizations and creators from May in this roundup. To see them and many others, make sure to download the app!

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Let’s take a look at a popular creator worth highlighting, as well as the most viewed, most discussed, and most liked posts of the month.

POPULAR CREATOR USAFacts

Visual Capitalist isn’t the only creator on the Voronoi app.

Instead, it features incredible data-driven charts and stories from many of the world’s best data sources, like USAFacts.

USAFacts, which was founded by former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, is a non-profit that aims to collate public sources of U.S. data in one place in a non-partisan way. And on Voronoi, you can see visualizations and the data behind them on an exciting range of topics:

How the U.S. government spends tax dollars Graphing U.S. aid and assistance going to Ukraine and Israel How many encounters happen at U.S. borders each year The cost of major natural disasters in the U.S. by year

Make sure to follow USAFacts on Voronoi today to see many charts, maps, and visualizations on a wide range of U.S.-related topics.

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MOST VIEWED Ranked: The 20 Countries With the Most Debt to China

Which countries are racking up the most external debt to China?

This visualization from Visual Capitalist was our most viewed of the month, using the latest available data from the World Bank.

Much of this debt was taken on to fund infrastructure projects as part of China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative, and some countries are running into difficulties repaying these large sums of money.

It should also be noted that this visual focuses in on external debt (i.e. loans made directly to countries) and does not cover publicly-traded securities like U.S. Treasurys.

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Rivers of Sewage: Britain’s Failing Experiment

The UK is one of the only countries in the world to have privatised water. Now the system is collapsing, with investors writing off billions and wondering if it was all worth it.

If you go for a swim in an English river this summer, your chances of coming face-to-face with a floating lump of human excrement are – according to official figures – uncomfortably high. Last year, sewage was dumped into England’s rivers for a total of 3.6 million hours, up 54% on the…

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Options Still Open for Fossil Fuel Engagement

Patience is a virtue when engaging with the oil and gas industry on climate, but opinions are mixed on whether investor efforts are paying off. 

It’s no secret that the oil and gas industry has been slow to act on the climate crisis.   But with the sector accounting for around 15% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and science dictating that oil and gas demand must peak by 2030, the need for drastic action to…

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