August 2008
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Which country has the best teeth in the world?
We have added a new indicator: “bad teeth per person” (you find it under “health” in the Gapminder World).
Here we have plotted “bad teeth per person” against “income per person”. Is dental problems worst in the richest or the poorest countries? There actually seem to be a tendency for the dental problems to be larger [...]
Who has the oil, and who uses it?
We have added 24 new data series with data on consumption and production of oil, natural gas, coal and other energy sources.The source of these data is BP’s World Statistical Review 2008.
We think these are fascinating data: they show you who has the oil and who uses it, the remarkable close relationship between energy [...]
Life expectancy expanded
We have used some additional sources to add more data to the indicator “Life expectancy at birth”. You can now follow several European countries from the 19th century and India, Sri Lanka and USA from the beginning of the 20th century. Data for Taiwan, which has previously been missing for this indicator, is now available from 1928. [...]