Blank map of the OECD

A blank map of the OECD usually becomes part of a larger document. An economics teacher drops it into a worksheet on member countries, a policy team uses it on the front of a paper, and a designer redraws it for an infographic. Choose Outline only for the land alone or With borders for the countries drawn in, then the file: a PNG on a transparent background, an SVG or a PDF.

In a report or a deck

Place the transparent PNG on a cover in the report's colour and set the title over it. In a deck, the outline can sit small at the top of each slide as a locator. Because the background is transparent, it needs no cropping, and on a dark slide the outline takes the slide's colour.

A handout on the members

For a handout on the 38 members, put the With borders PNG at the top of a document and write the topic of the paper beneath it, with the countries a text covers filled in one colour in your drawing tool. A second page can use Outline only as a faint backdrop behind a table of figures. The list further down this page gives the spelling of every member.

Designing with the SVG

In a design tool, the SVG's countries are separate shapes. Fill the members in the house colour and leave the rest pale, or add a hatch pattern, thicken the borders, or shrink the opacity for a map behind a column of text. The lines stay sharp at any size, from a slide marker to a banner.

Choosing

With borders is the political blank map of the OECD, the version to pick whenever countries need to be told apart. Outline only suits an icon, a watermark or a pale backdrop. For a colour map with a legend, start from the editable map of the OECD, and for paper choices such as black and white, use the printable map of the OECD.