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How Much Do Countries Spend on Education, USD per student, PPP (purchasing power parity) converted (reddthat.com)
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Source: https://www.smartick.com/data/how-much-do-countries-spend-on-education/

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[–] takeheart 39 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I'd much rather look a simple sorted table or a bar chart.

For me the country outlines don't add anything of value and they aren't too scale either with arbitrary rotations mixed in. Spending is on a strictly one dimensional scale yet the graphic implies some concentric (2-dimensional) pattern.

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