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The map is one of more than 500 that make up the Worldmapper project at http://:www.worldmapper.org/. It shows the ecological footprint of different countries calculated from resource intake and waste production. Data was retrieved from the 2005 Edition of the National Footprint Accounts from Global Footprint Network. This data, and an updated 2006 Edition, are available at Global Footprint Network’s website at http://www.footprintnetwork.org and in the Living Planet Report 2006 from the World Wide Fund for Nature. It was rendered as an equal area cartogram, otherwise known as density-equalizing map. The cartogram re-sizes each country according to its ecological footprint using a method by Michael Gastner and Mark Newman. An undistorted map with identical color coding is given on the lower left for reference. The generally richer countries of Western Europe, Japan, and the United States have a large ecological footprint denoted by their large area size. Less developed yet highly populated countries such as India and China exhibit a similarly large footprint. Other countries such as Australia and Russia shrink compared to the land area map. The supplementary tables and chart show countries with the largest and lowest ecological footprints.