About

Gapminder is a non-profit venture promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic and environmental development at local, national and global levels.

We are a modern “museum” that helps making the world understandable, using the Internet.

Gapminder was founded in Stockholm by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Hans Rosling on February 25, 2005. Gapminder is registered as a Foundation at Stockholm County Administration Board (Länstyrelsen i Stockholm) with registration number (organisationsnummer) 802424-7721. (The constitution can be found here)

Gapminder does not award any grants. It is an operating foundation that provides services as defined by the board, sometimes as collaborative projects with universities, UN organisations, public agencies and non-governmental organisations.

The initial activity was to continue development of the Trendalyzer software. This software unveils the beauty of statistical time series by converting boring numbers into enjoyable, animated and interactive graphics. The current version of Trendalyzer is available since March 2006 as Gapminder World, a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries.

In March 2006 Google acquired Trendalyzer from the Gapminder Foundation and the team of developers who formerly worked for Gapminder has joined Google in California since April 2007. (History of Gapminder)

Gapminder Foundation now fills the Trendalyzer with statistical content and use the resulting animations to fulfill our aim by:

  • Making time series freely available in Gapminder World and Gapminder Countries.
  • Producing videos, Flash presentations and PDF charts showing major global development trends with animated statistics and colorful graphics.

All with the intention of being a “fact tank” that promotes a fact based world view.

Economic administration

Gapminder Foundation
c/o Ekonomi Klara Papper AB
(att: Johanna Englund)
Box 22 312
SE-104 22 Stockholm

Office

c/o Karolinska Institutet,
Division of Global Health
Nobels väg 9
SE- 171 77 Stockholm
Sweden

Organisation number

802424-7721

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