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Height comparison: From world leaders to notable figures, who are you as tall as?

Leader heights ranked: how do you measure up?

How tall are you compared with prominent world figures, both past and present?

13 May 2023 - 8:00AM

Explainer | Why is there a global shipping container crisis?

15 Feb 2022 - 11:00AM

Coronavirus pandemic: All stories

Explainer | Omicron: a visual guide to the new Covid-19 variant

7 Dec 2021 - 5:30AM

Coronavirus pandemic

Explainer | How big and bad is the ‘vaccination gap’ worldwide?

Who is getting vaccines – and who isn’t?

28 Apr 2021 - 4:45AM

How big is the ‘vaccination gap’ worldwide? A visual story

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Is Beijing’s second wave of Covid-19 already under control?

Just when China’s capital was thought to be coronavirus-free, a second wave of coronavirus has been traced to a wholesale market in Beijing.

24 Jun 2020 - 6:42PM

Coronavirus pandemic

Covid-19: our explanatory graphics collection

Curated by SCMP's infographics team, the collection covers interactive charts and images of the coronavirus' cases, symptoms, preventive measures and economic stimulus packages.

4 Jun 2020 - 10:18AM

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How the coronavirus transformed human activities globally

Tracking the world’s mobility during the pandemic lockdown

2 Jun 2020 - 8:45AM

How the coronavirus transformed human activities globally

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How testing for Covid-19 in the US compares worldwide

Testing helps diagnose individuals and governments set policy.

13 May 2020 - 1:45PM

Coronavirus pandemic

How coronavirus became a pandemic

Many countries use their own criteria to count the number of Covid-19 cases, but more than 3 million people have been officially confirmed to have been infected, with more than 150,000 fatalities.

2 Jun 2020 - 10:17AM

Coronavirus pandemic

How the coronavirus disrupts food supply chains

The coronavirus is putting each link of the food supply chain under stress by disrupting agricultural production, transportation and supermarket sales. People around the world are facing food shortages.

21 Apr 2020 - 7:05PM

How the coronavirus disrupts food supply chains: visual explainer

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How Europe’s coronavirus lockdown nightmare compares to China

Europe failed to learn from China how rapidly coronavirus spreads and is now struggling to cope with surging Covid-19 infections

27 Mar 2020 - 6:57AM

How Europe’s coronavirus lockdown nightmare compares to China

Coronavirus: the world’s response to China

The world’s second-largest economy is finding itself increasingly isolated amid the Covid-19 outbreak as early as February, 2020

25 Mar 2020 - 11:35AM

Australian bush fires’ impact on the rest of the world

The Australian bush fires have had a devastating impact globally: spreading plumes of carbon, destroying parks and forests, burning down homes and killing people and animals.

17 Jan 2020 - 4:12PM

Rugby World Cup 2019

Is the 2019 Rugby World Cup too close to call?

20 Sep 2019 - 11:49AM

Rugby World Cup 2019: a look at the six top teams competing in Japan

Tokyo 2020 Olympics sport climbing debut explained

Sport climbing is an eye-catching addition to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, with athletes putting on gravity-defying exhibitions of dexterity, strength, endurance and problem-solving using only their bodies.

5 Aug 2021 - 7:09PM

Illustrations by Brian Wang

Hindenburg disaster: The end of the airship era

Eighty-two years ago on May 6, 1937, the German airship LZ129 Hindenburg claimed 36 lives when it caught fire at New Jersey in the United States.

6 May 2019 - 8:02PM

How China is looking beyond borders

The “Belt and Road Initiative” was announced by the Chinese government in 2013 as a global trade strategy based on the ancient Silk Road trading route.

10 May 2019 - 5:34PM

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Executing the death penalty

15 Apr 2019 - 5:06PM

Death Penalty in practice

How every Boeing 737 MAX was grounded in five days

It took less than a week for Boeing’s 737 MAX to be grounded following its second accident in five months.

1 Apr 2019 - 6:03PM

Brexit: how Britain voted

After 43 years in the European Union, the United Kingdom voted to leave on June 23, 2016. A hotly contested referendum uncovered a sharp regional divide across the nation. The vote was characterised by a high turnout and nail-biting margins of victory

28 Mar 2019 - 11:55AM

How does Venezuela’s crisis affect ordinary people?

Venezuelans are suffering chronic shortages in a country that is home to the world’s largest oil reserves and blessed with an enviable abundance of natural resources. Here’s how it affects people on a daily basis

25 Mar 2019 - 11:55PM

How does Venezuela’s crisis affect ordinary people?

What is permafrost and why it could be the climate change time bomb

As North America freezes through a polar vortex, and Australia sweats out an extreme heatwave, there is growing consensus it could be game over for Planet Earth if we do not pay attention to the world’s permafrost

21 Feb 2019 - 11:37AM

Permafrost, the climate change time bomb

Tracking Trump’s tangled trade war tweets

Understanding political narratives is not always easy. Events often develop with many twists and turns but situations can be further exacerbated when politicians are seen to change their minds as often as the wind changes direction. The following is a visual thread of comments made by US President Donald Trump about the trade war with China.

23 Jan 2019 - 9:18AM

The best of SCMP's visual journalism from 2018

As we greet the New Year and wave goodbye to 2018, we would like to refresh your memories of the diverse range of stories the graphics team tackled. We look forward to evolving in the year ahead, but in the meantime here are some shortlists for the best of our visual stories from 2018.

24 Dec 2018 - 3:57PM

What is space junk and why is it a problem?

Low Earth orbit is becoming increasingly cluttered and full of junk. China is one of the many countries responsible for the mess

28 Mar 2019 - 10:48AM

What is space junk and why is it a problem?

Interactive | What determines flight paths? Fares, airspace and jet streams

3 Oct 2018 - 5:04PM

Why the world’s flight paths are such a mess

Fifa World Cup 2018

World Cup stars and the dark arts of the not-so-beautiful game

27 Jun 2018 - 5:40PM

If World Cup coaches were Russian dolls, who would be the biggest?

15 Jun 2018 - 11:06AM

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