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组图看懂2014全球都有哪些大变化

21英语网2015-01-12 14:35

  2014天气很热,全球平均气温有多高,你造吗?2014土豪层出不穷,其中有多少白富美,你造吗?2014有种花开得美却有毒,你知道它正在哪里疯狂生长吗?N个百分数来看2014的大变化,年根里就让世纪君为你扒一扒吧!

  This year shattered records from the number of billionaires to the number of refugees. It also happened to be the warmest year recorded and featured the highest-ever levels of wheat production and sales of industrial robots. The statistics below show how the world changed this year, in ways both big and small.

  2014的政变有点儿多

  政变这种东东原本是件稀罕事儿,比起2013年的一场埃及政变,今年全球发生的政变多得让政治学家,都觉得有点儿不科学。2014年,泰国政府和非洲国家布基纳法索政府都被军方颠覆了。乌克兰前总统维克多·亚努科维奇也被赶下了台。不过,不管别人怎么评价基辅的动荡,在亚努科维奇看来,这就是一场“夺权篡位”! 总而言之,相比2013,全球发生的政变在今年翻了番。

  100-200 percent: Increase in the number of coups since 2013. This year, the governments of Thailand and Burkina Faso were toppled by their militaries. In Ukraine, meanwhile, a popular uprising and a parliamentary vote ejected then-President Viktor Yanukovych. There is some debate over whether the events in Kiev technically count as a coup as Yankovych has claimed, but according to academic definitions, wrote coup expert Jay Ulfelder, “pedantically, Yanukovych is correct.” In any case, while coups are exceedingly rare worldwide, 2014's number represents a jump from the one successful coup, Egypt’s, last year.

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