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Education data 1970-2009
The Institute of Health Metrics have estimated mean number of years in school for men and women in different age-groups for almost all countries.
The methods used for these estimates are well-documented. This data reveal that there is no correlation between educations level in counatries and the % of adults living with HIV
Card Game on global gaps
To allow your students to relax from the computer´s and still learn about the world Gapminder has made a quick-to-learn Card game that is free to download:
http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/card-game/
PowerPoint on life expectancy
What does Life expectancy really measure? Gapminder has made a free-to-download PowerPoint that you can use when teaching what Life expectancy really measures; and it is a pretty cool PowerPoint!
http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/life-expectancy-ppt/
Finding data in Gapminder World just got easier
We have simplified the menu structure for data in Gapminder World to make it easier to find the data you are looking for. We now have only 10 categories (previously 14). The new categories are:
- Economy
Education
Teach with Gapminder World
A new Teacher´s Guide for lessons on global change since Industrial Revolution until today is available under the section For Teachers.
Teacher’s guide: Lesson on 200 years that changed the world
http://www.gapminder.org/for-teachers/
Gapminder Desktop user experiences
ReadWriteWeb has published a long, useful and thoughtful comment on their experiences of Gapminder Desktop – we think this comment can be useful for many users to read! Go to:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/setting_data_free_with_gapminder.php
Gapminder Desktop can be downloaded from here:
www.gapminder.org/desktop/
Comment via feedback tag on left side
The feedback tag (on the left side of our webpages) brings you to Gapminder service forum on “Get Satisfaction”.
http://getsatisfaction.com/gapminder/questions/recent
This forum is by now so much used that we today switch of the many diverse comment features below our products and services. Our hope is that this facilitates for you to Read more …
Sweden peaked in teen births 1966
Gapminder World now has an updated indicator for Teen Fertility Rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19). We have added time series for Sweden since 1800 and for US since 1940. Click the link and see the interesting peak in births among teenagers in Sweden in 1966. The drop coincide with the arrival of the Read more …
Follow the World Cup in Gapminder
32 countries qualified to the Football World Cup in South Africa. In Gapminder World Cup you can see how they score on some football- as well as development indicators.
Angus Maddison has passed away
24 April 2010, professor Angus Maddison passed away at the age of 83. Maddison was an economist and economic historian and a pioneer in exploring the broad developments of the world through statistics.
