Refugees in Europe and elsewhere

Today's global refugee crisis mapped in time and space. Note: I'm not necessarily sure that there indeed a 'crisis' today any more than several years ago - it just seems that refugees in 2015 have been showing-up on the door steps of the rich countries as opposed to 'getting-stuck' somewhere along the way.

• Refugee crisis exposes deep divide in Europe is a nice interactive data viz. What's a little confusing (or maybe the point they want to get across?) is that they are showing total number of asylum applications on the map and normalized values on the bar chart.
• Global Refugee Populations 1975-2010 uses a 3D globe, but you can also animated the data over time - very nice.
• The flow towards Europe is just slick.
• Or, here as a simple infographic.

Want to see more? Have a look at the The 2015 refugee crisis in visualizations over on Visualoop.