This interactive graphic from the Washington Post can be found here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/01/15/the-kids-arent-alright-an-infographic/
Viewers can scroll over the icons (like per-capita GDP and infant mortality) to compare metrics across different countries. The results are pretty clear - Africa and China are in bad shape across almost every measure.
I'm not sure the red-green distinctions are color-blind friendly, and I'd love to view this chart a little larger, but it's generally a strong graphic -- easy to explore and understand, and much more engaging than a text-heavy article would've been. I also appreciate the headline and explanatory text, which gives just the right amount of context to the data.
- AKE
This graphic makes good use of a modified rainbow palette: the red-yellow-blue transition connotes "alarming" to "soothing", and the categories are only semi-quantitative, so the changing contrast across the spectrum isn't much of a problem.
-RS