The UN’s refugee agency reports that by the end of 2012, 45.2 million people were forcibly displaced. Some 15.4 million people were refugees: 10.5 under UNHCR’s mandate and 4.9 million Palestinian refugees registered by UNRWA. Today’s graphic shows the world’s refugee population by region and the top 10 source and host countries.

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Samsung plans to sell a variation of its Galaxy S4 smartphone that will transmit data at nearly twice the normal speed. Today’s graphic compares six of the most popular smartphones on the market.

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Employment growth in the U.S. manufacturing sector has been anemic in recent years, despite the economic rebound and the surge in fracking, which has created a big new market for industrial products. Today, U.S. plants employ nearly 2 million fewer workers than they did when the recession began. Today’s graphic is a snapshot of U.S. manufacturing jobs from 1990 to the present.

Monsoon is used to describe seasonal reversals of wind direction, caused by temperature differences between the land and sea. The most well-known of these, where the term is most often applied, is the Asian monsoon. Today’s graphic diagrams how monsoons occur.

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Several countries such as Singapore, Japan and South Korea have fertility rates of less than 1.5 births per woman, a level experts consider very low. In contrast, the United States has a fertility rate of around 2.01 and Australia 1.9. Today’s graphic shows the fertility rates of different regions and countries.

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An updated estimate showed that the world held some 345 billion barrels of technically recoverable shale oil, according a report earlier this week from the US Government’s Energy Information Administration. Today’s graphic is a map locating shale basins assessed for the 2013 world shale oil and gas report and the top five countries with shale oil resources.

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Most of the anti-shipping activities, such as piracy and robberies, have occurred in the Gulf of Guinea. Today’s graphic shows the anti-shipping hotspots and specific locations from which activity messages were sent (includes pirate attacks, robberies & suspicious craft.

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Canada’s economy added 95,000 jobs in May – the biggest gain in 11 years – and the jobless rate fell to 7.1%. Today’s graphic shows the monthly change in employment and compares Canada’s unemployment to that of the US.

As Tropical Storm Andrea, the first named storm of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, makes landfall, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center is forecasting an active/extremely active hurricane season this year. The Center says there is a 70% chance of getting 13 to 20 named storms and as many as six of them could become major hurricanes. Today’s graphic shows the intensity and lengths of storms over the last 100+ years.

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Garment exports continue to see impressive expansion in the US and EU markets despite the global slowdown, due to duty-free access to garments made in Cambodia. The garments industry has become by far the country’s biggest export earner, with shipments up 10% in 2012 to $4.44 billion. Today’s graphic is a snapshot of the garment industry in Cambodia.

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