News
Minor bug corrected
We have corrected a minor bug related to the “link to this graph” function. Those who had selected specific countries to be displayed with trails might have found that other countries were selected instead.
However, the correct data was always displayed for each Read more …
New territory
The former state “United Korea” has been added as a possible territory in Gapminder World. So far the only indicator with any data for this territory is population.
Note for members in the Gapminder world community: the formal name-match name for this area is “Korea, United”, and the borders corresponds to North and South Korea.
Download indicators to excel
It is now possible to download each of the indicators in gapminder world to excel.
Simply go to the list of current indicators in Gapminder World and click the link “download indicator to excel”, which you find in the sixth column.
Note that the row heights of the cells are not automatically adjusted in Read more …
New “indicator” to display years by colors 1820-2010
A new indicator called “years 1820-2010″ has been added (you find it under “other”).
It is similar to the indicator “year 1950-”, i.e. it simply displays the year, with the only difference that this one covers a longer period. This is more suitable if you want to look at longer periods, e.g. air pollution and Read more …
New "indicator" to make it possible to display years by colors
A new indicator called “year 1950-” has been added (you find it under “other”).
It simply shows the year, i.e. when we look at data for 1960 the indicator will be 1960 for all countries.
By using this indicator for the color of the bubbles (which you do in the top right corner of the Read more …
New Indicator: Public & private health expenditure (% of GDP)
On request we now add the new indicator “Public & private health expenditure (% of GDP)”.
It shows how big share of the average person’s income is being spent on health care, whether it is through the tax they pay, the health insurance they have or through out-of pocket expenses.
Here the indicator is Read more …
New indicator: growth in income per person
On request we now add the new indicator ”Growth in income per person (% per year)”, defined as the annual growth in Gross Domestic Product per person (percent increase from one year to next). It covers the period 1961-2005.
Note: this indicator is not necessary fully consistent with the “Income per Read more …
Population updated and expanded
The indicator population has been updated and expanded to cover more countries and territories and a longer time span. It now covers 251 countries and territories, including all of the 192 UN member states. 205 of them have data going back to at least 1820 (and 51 goes back as far as 1600).
Furthermore, Read more …
Income per person (fixed PPP$) for Iceland corrected
The data for Iceland after 1975 was incorrect for “income per person (fixed PPP$)”. This has now been corrected. Thanks to Björn Helgason for pointing out the error.
New blog for Gapminder World
This is a new blog for Gapminder World, the site lets you explore a changing world from your own computer. Gapminder World is powered by Trendalyzer, a software produced by Gapminder (and aquired by Google in March 2007) that lets you look at a number of indicators of Human Development in a way Read more …
