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Another sin against infographics. A couple of big problems:

* Long lines between labels and the object they are labeling are difficult to read. They should not be used.

* The countries should be colored directly rather than having the tiny color bar dangling off the side of the label. The color bar is too small and difficult to associate with the country. This improvement is only possible if you buy that long lines between label and object are a bad idea first.

* The bottom graph should be labeled.

* They should say what the first number in each label means. With the about the same amount of text you can say "Hungary: 1,988, 38 Per Week" or "Hungary, 38/week, 1988/year"

There's no need to state it both in hours per year and hours per week. It should be only hours per week. But if they must state both, they should label both. Otherwise the unlabeled number is confusing.

I'm sure other people can chime in with other things I'm missing.

— James Aguilar
WOW! We (Polish) work a lot!
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