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Am I the only one who thought that China (22.4%) was colored with the more sharp orange shade that is associated with the >25% in the key? I actually took a screenshot and copied the color box to confirm, the color of China is lighter orange shade that's for the right range (20-25%).

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Also, why is "unknown" almost the same colour as "1-5%"? To me it seems that most of the world is unknown, including India, yet they still have statistics for India. Confusing...

Yeah, I don't know how they have stats for India, I didn't dig into the sources.

Hex color of 20-25% in legend: #FF9233

Hex color of China: #FF8A00

Hex color of orange square in the "list view": #F7921E

As an aside - for a while now OS X has been shipping with a tool called "DigitalColor Meter" which allows you to see the color at your cursor tip in RGB or Hex. I find it extremely useful for situations like this, as well as the "zoom in" feature to be able to see if there is a border on a particular element, for example.

Interesting, I did not bother to see the exact RGB values but copying the color box and pasting it near China's map seemed same / similar to the naked eye. I am on Win 7 and I thought there's nothing built-in for that except for the legendary mspaint :)

I just checked in paint and I'm surprised they have a color picker built-in!! MSPaint has finally evolved in Win 7 and I am learning that just now :) (I knew this version has zoom and a couple of other nicer options but OMG I had no idea that even the color picker is included)

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