We have added data for 2011 to life expectancy. These data are for now based on projections. See theis link.
We have updated GDP per capita. The data has been extended to 2011 and we have done some backward revisions for the years 2006-2010. The same revisions was done to “GDP per capita with projecti...
About the video: Is there a relation between religion, sex and the number of babies per woman? In this TED talk from Doha, Qatar, Hans Rosling discusses this delicate topic and explains the main reas...
We made a minor revision of “children per women” and “children per women with projections”. The revision concerns Taiwan, Virgin Island (US), Hing Kong and Qatar.
We have added a new way to categories the bubbles (by colors): main religion in 2008. See link.
More years have been added. See the graph.
We updated “population, total” & “total population with projections” for Taiwan 1950 and on.
We added two new indicators that show how many children each woman have on average that survive to their 35th birthday, or die before their 35th birthday. The two indicators sum up to the total ferti...
We have updated “population, total” and “population with projections”. “Population, total” covers the period 1700 up to today. “Population with projections&#...
Both per capita and total CO2 emissions have been updated to 2008.
“Life expectancy” and “Life expectancy with projections” has been updated. New data from World Population Prospect has been added. This also implies some backward revisions. S...
We updated “Children per woman” with new data from World Population Prospects. Some backward revisions were also done. The indicator “Children per woman with projections” were...
UN just published estimates for child mortality in all countries in 2010! http://www.unicef.org/media/f iles/Child_Mortality_Report_20 11_Final.pdf It is a well documented compilation that brings much...
Some international organisations keep selling public datasets as if they were books. This bad habit is a relic from the time when copying data was expensive. OECD still have a list of public datasets...
People ask me: DO you believe UNAIDS data saying that less than 0.1 % of adults in Pakistan are HIV infected? YES I DO, the estimate is not based on reporting but on surveys. The uncertainty is wide...
Thanks a lot to Elliot Rankin-Jones, who helped us identify an error in Gapminder World. The data for “military expenditure (% opf GDP)” has been upgraded with the latest World Bank repor...
A decade ago I lectured to the staff of the Ministry of Health in Cuba. After my talk the Minister happily said, this graphs showed that Cuba is the healthiest of the poor countries! On the way out a...
Look at the great catch up of Ireland since the terrible famine in 1849. That year the lifespan in Ireland, 20 years, was estimated to half of that in UK! And the estimated income per person in Irela...
The five countries with the highest oil reserves per person are UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia & Libya. All five score very low, from -7 to -10, in democracy (the scores run from +10 to -10)!...
Michel Martelly was sworn in Saturday as the new president of Haiti. He face a relay tough task! Since 1950 GDP/capita has not grown at all, it remains around 1 thousand dollar per person in Haiti. I...
Azerbaijan not only won the European Song Contest 2011, it also has among the highest oil and natural gas production per person in the world www.bit.ly/iNksgW Not only has the income per person stead...
The economic growth in Africa is more than 5% per year and that is faster than world average. Companies in emerging economies (=middle income countries or BRIC) are more positive to invest in Africa ...
Today at the airport in Stockholm I met a happy Swedish couple flying out to their new investment abroad! They had renovated and opened a hotel on “Ihla”, the historic capital in norther...
35 years ago Ivory Coast and Egypt had the same GDP/capita and the same Life Expectancy. In this year of revolution Egyptians have 4 fold better GDP/capita and live more than 10 years longer than Iv...
At independence in 1972 people in Bangladesh lived on average 1o years shorter than in Pakistan, whereas both countries had very large families, 7 children per women. Bangladesh has in the last 4 dec...
i Just became aware of how very exceptional the BUDGET of the Pakistan government is. The government spend 4% of GDP on military, as high as the much richer USA do!! In % of GDP USA and Pakistan have...
Click to see Gapminder World showing number of children per women (vertical) and child mortality (horizontally) for the countries of the world in 1960. (each bubble=one country). Back in 1960 there w...
BREAKING NEWS FROM UN POPULATION DIVISION world population continueS to grow, but the number of children in the world has now reached its peak. In 1960 we were 1 billion children below 15 years of ag...
Great day for the curious! UN releases World Population Prospects 2010 http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/ind ex.htm No more grouping of countries into developed and developing! Instead countries are grouped ...
Gapminder World displays the latest datasets available for different aspects of the progress of countries. The data for the last years are mostly estimations based on extrapolations from survey made ...
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