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Last updated: December 16, 2011 5:21 pm
On December 17, 2010 fruit-seller Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire after officials confiscated his goods, igniting a popular uprising that sent shock waves through the Arab world.
A year on, and regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya have fallen. Protests continue in Syria, and the whole region is still adjusting to new realities.
This interactive graphic maps the spread of the protests as well as assessing the current situation in each country.
Sources:
GNI data source: World Bank,
UAE GNI data source: CEIC Data
Unemployment data source: International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database, October 2010
Demographic data source: UN
Oil and gas production source: EIA (US Energy information administration)
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