Number of Countries that Speak Different Languages

Number of Countries that Speak Different Languages (LINK)
courtesy of @jennalaib

Type of Graph: bar graph

Visualization Source: “The World’s Languages, in 7 maps and charts” by Rick Noack and Lazaro Gamio (published in the Washington Post; April 23, 2015)

Data Source: Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 18th Edition

Potential Math Content: bar graphs, scale, horizontal bar graphs, interpreting bar values between the lines, interpreting what the sum of all the data means (there aren’t 420 countries…)

Potential Content Connections: languages, geography, international