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Ivory Coast dropped, Egypt rised GDP/c
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 Ivorians. So Egypt did progress in health and economy during Mubarak, but people also want democracy. Ivory Coast today had its elected president swarm in but he has Read more …
Bangladesh has outdone Pakistan!
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 decades increased the life span from 44 to 67 years; now on par with Pakistan. In the change to small families Bangladesh has dropped from 7 to 2.3 children per Read more …
Pakistan military budget is 10 x health budget !
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 among the highest military spendings in the world!
But in health the countries are very different! Read more …
Reducing deaths yielded fewer kids!
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 was a developing world with many children and high child mortality!
Click Play and watch how child mortality falls and then how also number of Read more …
The World has reached Peak Number of Children!
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 age and we were 35% of the world population.
Now there are 1,9 billion children in the world, but they are but Read more …
UN: we will be 9 b 2050 & 10 b 2100
Great day for the curious! UN releases World Population Prospects 2010 http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm
No more grouping of countries into developed and developing! Instead countries are grouped based on fertility into low (ex. Vietnam, Iran & Brazil), intermediate (ex Egypt, USA, Bangladesh, South Africa), and high fertility (ex Pakistan, Nigeria, Congo & Bolivia) !
The high-fertility countries (> 3 kids per Read more …
Bangladesh is better than we show!
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 in earlier years. When new survey results appear they should more or less correspond to the estimations if countries progress as expected.
BUT sometimes Read more …
Who knows more about the world – you or a Chimp?
Hans Rosling’s Test is now live on Facebook.
Play to find out if you know more about the world than a Chimpanzee!
Some of you may already follow us on Facebook, otherwise please also visit our Facebook page Read more …
New Oil & Energy data from IEA
Gapminder World now have longer and more complete data series on Energy and Oil data from IEA http://www.gapminder.org/data-blog/oil-production-indicators-updated/ and http://www.gapminder.org/data-blog/6-energy-indicators-added/
War, murder, suicide & traffic deaths
We have displayed best available data on deatsh in war, due to murder, suicide and trafic deaths http://www.gapminder.org/data-blog/seven-indicators-added/
