The Washington Post article, 40 Maps That Explain the World, has useful information for missions organizations. I’ll list them here so you don’t have to scroll through them all:

2. Where people are the most and least welcoming to foreigners

3. The world’s major writing systems

5. World map of major religions

6. The countries where people are the most and least emotional

7. A European missionary’s map of Africa, circa 1908

8. Where people are the most and least racially tolerant

9. The world’s most and least ethnically diverse countries

10. Where people feel the most and least loved

12. Who loves and hates America

13. How the U.S. and China compare on global popularity

17. Languages and dialects of the Middle East and Central Asia

24. More than half of humanity lives inside this circle

28. Child poverty in the developed world

32. The diversity of the Levant

36. Where the atheists live

37. What the Muslim world believes, part 1: democracy

38. What the Muslim world believes, part 2: religious conflict

39. What the Muslim world believes, part 3: honor killings

NOTES:

• Shout out to Scott at Crocker Chronicle for alerting me to this article.
• Writing systems map available on Wikimedia Commons.