Data Vis Dispatch, March 25: Happiness, drugs, and international relations

With the new World Happiness Report released, we are in for maps, scatterplots, and line charts showing us how humanity is doing:

With a closer look at lifestyle, here's what people are doing these days — and when they are dying:

Checking to see how the market's faring, in a selection of charts ranging from simple line charts to information-rich diagrams:

Tariffs aren't the only reason for dissatisfaction with the U.S government — The New York Times gets to the bottom of it with new polling projects:

Back to Europe, with visualizations of taxation and population in Switzerland:

A history of international relations, in finance and in war:

Mapping current conflicts, with China's maritime moves and Ukraine's air defense:

Resources and energy to the moon and back, both speculative and available:

Back on earth, the environment's state in water reserves and bird species:

Turning from flocks to rosters, here's a look at U.S. sports:

Two examples of how annotations and symbols can help with a chart's context and character:

Finally, charts about names, artificial intelligence, journalistic fact-checking, and the increase in sunlight about to bless our northern hemisphere: