EU unemployment graphic

Hey bloggers!

Today I want to share with you another infographic I made at class with InDesign. This one is about the unemployment at the European Union.

Style (colors and fonts):

I've chosen this colors because I wanted to make it look serious enough as the information comes from an official source (the EUROSTAT). I also wanted to play with the blueish tonalities of the European Union flag, so that's why the titles and the background are in this tonality. As for the map I wanted to depict the countries in two groups: the green ones (that have a good unemployment situation) and the red ones (that have a bad unemployment situation). This two divisions follow if they are under the average EU unemployment ratio or if they are over this ratio.

As for the fonts, I though that having chosen a rather serious colors I had to pick up a eye-catching font for the title in order to avoid the reader being bored at a first glance of my graphic.The explanation text are in a more serious and simpler font because I believed that the important thing of the explanations was the information, the data they were giving and so I didn't want to distract the reader with a funny or more complex font.

Organization: 
I've divided my work into three sections, each one containing one graphic. I also wanted to make clear the hierarchy by marking the questions which entitle each sections with big blue circles or with a lateral band.

Goal: 

I think this infographic results quite familiar, because all the graphics are commonly understandable and easy to recognize. So I think that it could aim to an adult audience who is interested in economics, politics and the European Union. I guess it could be publishable on a website, together with an article explaining how the economic crisis has affected the EU.

I'd like to hear your comments on my graphic, because I think that there are some points that can still be improved. I'm not very glad of the bottom graphic, I think it looks very plain and simple compared with the others. What would you do about it?

Sara.