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POPSMore titillating infographics: Product Space & Development of Nations Cool infographic showing material types, products, proximity of manufacture, world trade volumes of each. According to the brief, "proximity" here refers to the theory that a country's ability to manufacture a product (e.g. apples) depends on its ability to produce related ones (e.g. another fruit like pears). Part of information supporting the paper The Product Space Conditions the Development of Nations (Hidalgo, Klinger, Barabasi, Hausmann). There is also a page where you can download individual country maps. Via VisualComplexity .