Brazilian artist, Sousa has used the five coloured rings as a representation of each of the five continents which take part in the Olympic Games. The ring sizes have been adapted to create a series of informative graphs about the issues the world faces today. Topics have ranged from general facts, such as the number of MacDonald’s outlets in each continent, to statistics such as the number of people living with HIV.

The colour code for the graphs is as follows: Blue is Oceania (Australia and its proximate islands); Yellow is Africa; Black is Europe; Green is Asia; Red is the Americas.