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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 Read more …
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 Read more …
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 Read more …
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 Read more …
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.
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 Read more …
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 Read more …
"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 Read more …
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 Read more …
