Monday, June 11

Top 10 Cities and Regions Concerned About Drought

I know the US is experiencing their own "Drought of Ages", but which cities or regions in the world have been most concerned about droughts in the last three years?

Top 10 Cities Most Interested in Drought:

1. Ft Collins, CO, USA
2. Canberra, Australia
3. Sydney, Australia
4. Brisbane, Australia
5. Adelaide, Australia
6. Melbourne, Australia
7. Lincoln, NE, USA
8. Perth, Australia
9. Tucson, AZ, USA
10. Delhi, India

3 of 10 cities were here in the US, while a stunning 6 of the 10 cities were in Australia.

Top 10 Regions Most Interested in Drought:

1. Ethiopia
2. Zimbabwe
3. Kenya
4. Australia
5. Jamaica
6. South Africa
7. India
8. Sri Lanka
9. Iran
10. Pakistan

Africa, Australia, but no America?


Source:
For this highly scientific analysis I used Google Trends to analyze a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the term drought relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time.

1 comments:

waterwords said...

Google Trends is cool. Clever to think to use it this way.

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