The document summarizes statistics about life expectancy dropping in Russia from 1932-1933 due to a famine, Kuwait's military expenditure jumping to over 100% of GDP in 1991 during the Gulf War, and the United States having the highest levels of both nuclear production and sugar consumption per person. It also notes that there is missing data for the US in adult literacy rates and poverty headcount ratios. Finally, it provides a quote indicating that in 2011, about 2.8 million US children were living in households with income of $2 or less per person per day.

1. SOVIET FAMINE
Life expectancy in Russia drops dramatically in 1932-33

2. GULF WAR / ODS
Kuwait's military expenditure jumps to over 100% of GDP in 1991

3. HOMER SIMPSON
USA highest nuclear production and highest sugar consumption per person

4. MISSING DATA
No statistics for the United States of America in the following sets:
Adult Literacy Rate (%):
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pyj6tScZqmEdrsBnj2ROXAg&gid=0
Poverty Headcount Ratio at 1.25$ a day (PPP) (% of Pop.)
https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t1YAVXUoD3iJKy2mSq2Padw&gid=0
"…as of the beginning of 2011, about 1.46 million U.S. households with about 2.8 million children were surviving on $2 or
less in income per person per day in a given month. This constitutes almost 20 percent of all non-elderly households
with children living in poverty."
- National Poverty Center Policy Brief 2012, Extreme Poverty in the United States, 1996 to 2011
Source: http://npc.umich.edu/publications/policy_briefs/brief28/policybrief28.pdf

5. Hans Roslin's Ted.com Bio:
"And the big picture — usually hazy at best — snaps into sharp focus."
Much like the aesthetic considerations of information
technology (namely the Internet), Data Visualization
follows similar standards; customs in which the user is
enthralled, and dragged in by it's form.
Alexander Galloway notes that this representation
"uses an application layer to create
compelling, intuitive user experience
via continuity that favours smooth transitions
and the elimination of dead links.”