Hans Rosling debunks myths in new lecture-series
Can the population growth be stopped? Is Brazil, Egypt and Bangladesh now improving faster than Sweden ever did? And can everyone live on the same level as the rich countries?
In a new lecture series, filmed in a studio at the Swedish Television, Hans Rosling answer yes to all questions above.
The lecture has been divided into Read more …
Posted in News | Tagged child mortality, Gapminder, global health, Hans Rosling, More news, Population growth, rosling, svt, video, yes they can
Gapminder.org – one of the 10 best sites in 2009
Gapminder.org is one of the best ten webpages in 2009 for planning, design and development, according to the Planetizens yearly top ten list.
Posted in News | Tagged awards, design, Gapminder, More news, Planetizen, top ten list, www.gapminder.org
"Yes they can!"
Swedish students say: “They can never live like us” Time to rethink!
Watch this new video with Hans Rosling.
Posted in News | Tagged More news
Resources for teachers
We are planning to develop resources and manuals to make it easier for teachers to use gapminder in their teaching.
We already have found a couple of resources on the net (see links below).
We welcome any feedback, suggestions or comments from teachers who wants to use, or are already using, the resources of gapminder in their Read more …
Posted in News | Tagged gapminder teaching, More news, teaching resources
See new surprising trends in HIV
New dataset on HIV trends in Gapminder World.
Posted in News | Tagged aids, AIDS 1979, AIDS data, Corrections & updates, hiv, HIV 1979, HIV data, HIV in the world, New data documentation, PLWH, UNAIDS; HIV prevalence
Democracy indicator added
We have now added an indicator of how countries are governed. This indicator puts countries on a spectrum from democracy to autocracy through expert scoring on a number of criteria. The range of the indicator is from 10 (fully instititutionalized democracy) to -10 (hereditary monarchy). See the example graph here (look at the colour of Read more …
Posted in News | Tagged New indicators
Life expectancy at birth updated and expanded
We have made an update of the indicator Life expectancy at birth. To see this indicator together with Income per capita, follow this link.
The biggest change is that we now show this indicator for 155 countries back to 1800, although in most cases, the early estimates are based on a very rough model. This full Read more …
Posted in News | Tagged 19th century, 20th century, 21st century, Corrections & updates, global health, health statistics, historical data, life expectancy, statistics
Income per person revised and expanded
We now have data for 219 countries and territories for 1800-2007, although the data for the 19th century are largely based on rough assumptions. For a couple of countries the revisions mean substantial changes. You can still find the old version of the indicator, under “For advanced users”.
See the new indicator here. Note that the revisions Read more …
Posted in News | Tagged Corrections & updates
See Gaps within US
Unemployment rate
See which state of US has the highest unemployment rate over the last 3 decades.
Immigrants
See which state of US is the most attractive to foreign immigrants in 2005.
South was poorer, but not any longer
See development of all states of US from 1929 to 2006.
Posted in News | Tagged child death, health, immigrants, income, inequity, infant mortality, money, More news, population, unemployment, United States
Asia best in math
A new international comparison in math achievement has just been released. Here we have plotted the average achievement for children in the 8th grade against Income per person in each country. Here we have the same graph but with the results for 4th graders. As can be seen, the top five achievers are all East Asian countries.
You find the Read more …
Posted in News | Tagged math, math achievements, mathematics, New indicators, school achievements, school performance, TIMSS, TIMSS 2007
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