Data in Gapminder World

December 20th, 2011

population for Taiwan updated

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

December 12th, 2011

dead and surviving kids per woman added

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 …

December 12th, 2011

Population updated

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 …

November 30th, 2011

co2 emissions updated

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

November 10th, 2011

Life expectancy updated

“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/

October 11th, 2011

Children per woman updated

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/

May 23rd, 2011

Military expenditure data upgraded

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 …

March 31st, 2011

Long term total GDP added

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.

March 25th, 2011

4 communication indicators updated

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

March 25th, 2011

Maternal deaths lifetime risk updated

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

March 23rd, 2011

4 World Bank indicators updated

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 …

February 23rd, 2011

6 infrastructure indicators added

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

  1. Improved sanitation, overall access (%)
  2. Improved sanitation, urban access (%)
  3. Improved sanitation, rural access (%)
  4. Improved water source, overall access (%)
  5. Improved water source, urban access (%)
  6. Improved water source, rural access (%)
  7. Read more …

February 23rd, 2011

Democracy score updated

The indicator “Democracy score” has been updated using the latest data from Polity IV.

View the graph here .

February 11th, 2011

GDP per capita documentation added

The written documentation for GDP per capita has now been uploaded:

http://www.gapminder.org/data/documentation/gd001/

February 9th, 2011

Meta-data for “Income per person”

We have finally uploaded an excel-file with all the sources and meta-data for Income per person. You find it at the documentation page.

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