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Income per person in Gapminder World
The name of the main income indicator shown when Gapminder World is started has been revised for clarity, but the data remain the same. It is now called “Income per person (GDP/capita, inflation-adjusted $).
Learn to use Gapminder in the classroom (in Swedish)
Are you a teacher? Do you live in Sweden? We now offer a course on how to use Gapminder materials in the classroom. The course will be in Swedish, takes place in Stockholm on 15-16 of June and the prize is 2800 SEK + sales tax. If more than one teacher come from the same Read more …
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HIV-documentation updated
We have made some minor corrections to the documentation of our HIV-data.
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 Read more …
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.
"Yes they can!"
Swedish students say: “They can never live like us” Time to rethink!
Watch this new video with Hans Rosling.
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 Read more …
See new surprising trends in HIV
New dataset on HIV trends in Gapminder World.
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 Read more …
