World Foreign Prisoners percentage within the Prison Population

This map made by chartsbin.com shows the percentage of foreign prisoners within each national prison population. Foreign prisoners includes men and women held in penal institutions, as pre-trial detainees (remand prisoners) or having been convicted and sentenced, in the world

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CQ Economy Tracker

A massive data visualization tool that lets users find out how the U.S. economy is performing, including breakouts on jobs, house prices, inflation and income. The visualization was designed & developed by the editorial multimedia team of CQ-Roll Call Group, the premier political news and information provider covering congress.

The data is collected from government and non-government sources; the interactive shows all historical data and is updated live as new data is released. It also features a glossary with sources and descriptions of the data and the data is available for download in Excel format. We think it's the first interactive tool of its kind to pair up this much national and regional/state data side-by-side. It's hooked up to a database and was built in Flash. All of the components, including the graphing and mapping portions, were custom built and are fully reusable APIs.

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Corruption around the World

Transparency International, the leading civil society organisation fighting corruption worldwide, will release its 15th annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) on today.

This chart made by chartsbin.com shows Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) around the world. The CPI index score on a scale from 10 (very clean) to 0 (highly corrupt).

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Why it doesn't feel like a recovery

The nation’s economic woes boil down to this. Compared with a healthy economy, about 7 million working-age people and 5 percent of the nation’s industrial capacity are sitting idle, not producing what they could. The economy is growing again, but at a rate — less than 2 percent in recent months — that’s too slow to keep up with a population that keeps increasing and workers who keep getting more efficient.

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The Capitol's Age Pyramid: A Graying Congress

The 111th Congress, which convened in 2009, is among the oldest in U.S. history. The average age of members of Congress has risen steadily since 1981, with just a slight hiccup in the early 1990s; the rise is likely the result of a high incumbency rate, the aging of the U.S. population, and the first-time elections of older candidates. Roll over the charts below to learn more.

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