Use geom_ribbon() to highlight the gap between two lines

[@ahmed007Jaber]

amazing work, David.
thank you for suring. i will definitly recreate this

[@evaldosilva786]

Thank you for this amazing and clean graph. I could recreate it exactly as you did.
I wondered how the geom_textpath() function places the country names in an appropriate position and with the proper slope/inclination.

[@rfortherestofus]

I don't know exactly how geom_textpath() works, but it is amazing!