The tagline for Worldmapper is "The world as you've never seen it before." Actually, if you're into information design, you probably have.
Michael Kidron married global perspective, political analysis, graphic design and data from the CIA in the State of the World Atlas (first published in 1981 and heading into its 8th edition) and The War Atlas
(1983). Worldmapper may be more up-to-date and accessible, but its more fluid reworking of maps to portray relative differences among nations actually conveys less information — especially if you're looking for specific countries.
Still, the maps do succeed as a way of provoking global thoughts in the short-attention-span crowd.
Here's a picture of the countries of
destination for both refugees and internally displaced persons.
Unfortunately, there's no way on the map to distinguish internally uprooted people (in Iraq or the Sudan) with refugees entering another country (say, France or the U.S.). A poster version does list top 20 countries and shows the breakout by region, however.
Here's a map showing where the world's rabies cases occur — most are in India.
And here's the distribution of the Sunni Muslim population.
