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Industrial robots by country
Our World in Data's bar chart drew 191.5K views on X: 6.7x its typical post and #10 of 139 Our World in Data charts we track by views. Read Oct 10, 2026.
South Korea uses more industrial robots per worker than any other country, This chart shows one way to compare automated manufacturing across countries, it plots the number of robots per 1,000 manufacturing employees.
Why it spread
This post spread because it paired a striking ranking claim about South Korea with a simple bar chart, reaching 191,531 views, 425 likes, 125 reposts, 47 quotes, and 100 saves, while its quote rate landed in the top quarter and its source reach also landed in the top quarter.
What worked
- The post text leads with a clear, superlative finding about South Korea using more industrial robots per worker than any other country, which gives people an easy reason to share it.
- The chart is a bar chart ranking countries by robots per 1,000 manufacturing employees, a familiar form that makes very large differences between countries easy to grasp at a glance.
- The post is branded and shows a source line, and it comes from an independent author, which together with the many quotes helped it travel as a citable piece of data journalism.
What to borrow
We could take one clear ranking from our own data, state the top finding in plain words in the post text, and show it as a simple bar chart with a visible source line so others can quote and reuse it.
Careful
Do not over-read the low design polish as a weakness, since the post still spread widely, and do not assume the same framing will work for every dataset or that the large view count means every viewer engaged.
Written by our analysis model from the measured numbers above, not by Our World in Data.
Make it yours
Your numbers, in this bar chart.
Starts from the real numbers of "Industrial robots in manufacturing in operation per 1,000" by Our World in Data. Replace every number with yours before you post. Make one like this, step by step
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On the Max plan you can pull this chart's numbers with the provenance of each one, as JSON or CSV, with its redraw spec, or call it from an agent over MCP. Chart id b669ffaa3a4a.
| Path | Returns | Plan | |
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| GET | /api/v1/charts/b669ffaa3a4a | Title, publisher, date, form, point count; with a Max key, the data link | Open |
| GET | /api/v1/charts/b669ffaa3a4a/data | Every point with its provenance and confidence, plus the redraw spec. Add ?format=csv for CSV | Max |
| GET | /api/v1/charts/b669ffaa3a4a/render?view=1 | The draw-only view this page uses | Open |
| POST | /mcp | Tool get_chart_data with this id, for Claude, Cursor and other agents | Max |
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-H "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"claude mcp add --transport http viralchart https://viral-chart.com/mcp \
--header "Authorization: Bearer $VIRALCHART_KEY"60 requests a minute per key; over that you get 429 with Retry-After. Up to 5 keys per account, made on your account page and shown once. Without Max, the data route answers 402 with a link to the plans. The numbers describe a chart its publisher owns, and every file carries a license note.
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How far did Our World in Data's "Industrial robots by country" chart travel?
191,531 views, 425 likes, 125 reposts and 100 saves on X, read Oct 10, 2026. A normal post from @OurWorldInData gets about 28.6K views.
What kind of chart is it?
A bar chart. Country ranking of industrial robot adoption per capita.
Can I use Our World in Data's chart?
Use the format, not the picture. The chart, logo and design belong to Our World in Data. ViralChart redraws the chart type with your numbers and words, and credits the original publisher.