Income per person updated to 2007
Income per person (i.e. GDP per capita) has been updated to 2007.
Here is one example for 2007 where income per person is plotted against Life expectancy at birth.
Note that the GDP data will be revised in a near future, taking into account the latest round of PPP from the ICP.
Posted in News | Tagged Corrections & updates, gdp, gdp 2007, GDP per capita, gdp per capita 2007, income per person, latest gdp, new gdp per person
Data on CO2 emissions updated
Gapminder World now incorporates the latest update on carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. This update adds more recent data and makes some corrections for earlier years. Data are now available from 1751-2005.
See this example graph which shows CO2 emissions per person against income per person, with the bubble size representing total CO2 emissions.
Posted in News | Tagged Carbon dioxide, Climate Change, CO2, Corrections & updates, fossil fuels, Gapminder World, Global Warming, greenhouse gas, historical data
See "Gaps" within each country
After several months of testing, a new service of Gapminder is now available.
During the process of development, different geographical regions within the same country could have very different speed of development, and this may cause significant internal gaps. By using statistics animation technology, these gaps could be visualized and the change over time could also be displayed. For example, Read more …
Posted in News | Tagged Children, China, Death, education, Equity, European Union, gdp, Guizhou, health, India, Internal gaps, More news, New York, Ohio, Population growth, Pradesh, Provinces, Shanghai, Taiwan, Tibet, United States, Utah, Washington
"Data quality" & documentation for Population added
At the new documentation page you will find the documentation for the indicators compiled by Gapminder, including population. There you can also download an Excel-file that includes not only all the data, but also information on sources and estimation methods for each observation.
To the extent possible we have also used this information to give each Read more …
Posted in News | Tagged data documentation, data quality, meta data, New data documentation, population, uncertainty range
"Population" is now complete for all countries 1800-2008
We have updated the indicator “population, total” so that it covers all countries and territories from 1800 to 2008. Population is by default used for the size of the bubbles in Gapminder World.
With “all countries and territories” we mean all the 192 UN-member plus 61 other entities (e.g. semi-autonomous territories, former countries and disputed territories). Read more …
Posted in News | Tagged all the world, Corrections & updates, maddison, population, population data, population of the world
Where do people eat most sugar and sweeteners?
At request we added a new indicator for consumption of sugar and sweeteners per day and person, i.e. it measures how many grams sugar and sweeteners does each person consume in one day.
In this graph we plotted sugar consumption against income per person.
It is of course tempting to plot this indicator against “bad teeth per Read more …
Posted in News | Tagged bad teeth, candy, dental health, New indicators, sugar, sugar consumption, sweeteners
Find all the countries of the world in the updated map
We have updated the map in gapminder world. We removed all “former countries” and “ad-hoc” areas, but included all small countries and territies. We included even the smallest countries and territories, such as Pitcairn (where the mutineers of bounty settled) and Canada’s somewhat less known neighbour St.Pierre-et-Miquelon.
You find the map under the tab “map” in Read more …
Posted in News | Tagged all countries, bounty, gapminder map, gapminder updates, map of all countries, More news, mutiny of bounty, pitcairn, small countries, st Helena
New feature in Gapminder World
We have added a menu to the right of the Gapminder World to improve the usability. This new feature allows you to directly from the graph access information about the graph, find relevant links, watch tutorials, participate in discussions about the data, get tips on how to use the graph, and much more.
Go to the graph to see Read more …
Posted in News | Tagged Gapminder, gapminder updates, Gapminder World, More news, new feature
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 Read more …
Posted in News | Tagged best teeth in the world, dental data, dental problems, DFMTdental, New indicators, smile in the world, teeth, teeth problems, WHO
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 Read more …
Posted in News | Tagged bp, energy consumption, energy data, energy production, fossil fuels, gas, hydroelectricity, New indicators, nuclear power, oil, oil data, peak oil
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