Data in Gapminder World

We updated “population, total” & “total population with projections” for Taiwan 1950 and on.

We added two new indicators that show how many children each woman have on average that survive to their 35th birthday, or die before their 35th birthday. The two indicators sum up to the total fertility rate. Projections up to 2100 has been included. A graph with the indicators (with projections) can be seen Read more …

We have updated “population, total” and “population with projections”. “Population, total” covers the period 1700 up to today. “Population with projections” includes projections up to 2100, and we have also included data before 1700 for several countries.

We no longer attempts to do a quality grading of each observation. The data quality indicator is still Read more …

Both per capita and total CO2 emissions have been updated to 2008.

“Life expectancy” and “Life expectancy with projections” has been updated. New data from World Population Prospect has been added. This also implies some backward revisions. See the documentation for more details: http://www.gapminder.org/data/documentation/gd004/

We updated “Children per woman” with new data from World Population Prospects. Some backward revisions were also done. The indicator “Children per woman with projections” were also updated. See the documentation for more information: www.gapminder.org/data/documentation/gd008/

Thanks a lot to Elliot Rankin-Jones, who helped us identify an error in Gapminder World.

The data for “military expenditure (% opf GDP)” has been upgraded with the latest World Bank report.

Please try selecting one country at a time and zoom in (available from the lower left corner of the graph) Read more …

200 years of total GDP (PPP$, inflation-adjusted) has been added into Gapminder World. graph

This indicator is based on 2 other indicators: GDP per capita (PPP$, inflation-adjusted) and Population.

Documentations for the data compilation process could be found here.

The following 4 communication indicators have been updated using the latest data from the World Bank.
1. Cell phones (total). graph
2. Cell phone (per 100 people). graph
3. Internet users (total). graph
4. Internet users (per 100 people). graph

The data for “Maternal deaths, lifetime risk (per 1,000)” has been updated using the latest data from Unicef.
Graph

The following 4 indicators have been updated using the latest data from the World Bank:
1. Debt servicing costs (% of exports and net income from abroad)    graph
2. Present value of debt (% of GNI)    graph
3. Exports unit value (index, 2000=100) graph
4. Net Read more …

By using the latest data from MDG indicators, 6 infrastructure indicators have been added into Gapminder World:

Democracy score updated

GDP per capita documentation added

Meta-data for “Income per person”