During the year, we published our infographic stories to keep you in touch with the most interesting and essential facts derived from the world's seemingly never-ending maze of statistics. In today's special year-end edition, we present the most popular Viz of the Day's of 2016, starting with #1, 'When Will the Population of India Surpass That of China?'

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