Data in Gapminder World

We removed the following two indicators:
-Consumer price index (2000=100)
-Capital formation (constant prices)

We updated aid-received, total, which were previously in current prices, with aid recieved, total, in fixed prices. We also renamed the indicator, it is now called: Aid received, total (US$, inflation-adjusted)

The following indicators have been added:
-Murder (total deaths)
-Suicide (total deaths)
-Traffic (total deaths)
-War mortality (per 100 000)
-Armed forces personnel, total
-Armed forces personnel (% of labor force)
-Total GDP (PPP $, inflation adjusted)

There was a typing error for Myanmar in income growth. The error is now corrected. Thanks to Tim Sullivan for pointing out the error.

We added a new indicator that measures the kilocalories available, on average, for each person per day. You find it under “economy” – “consumption”. However, it is a rather poor indicator of malnutrition in a country, since the distribution of food consumption varies.

http://tiny.cc/zxrxh

We have added some very interesting new indicators!
Under “Health” we have added traffic deaths per 100,000 persons, suicides per 100,000 persons, murders per 100,000 persons, deaths from burn injures per 100,000 persons, drownings per 100,000 persons, deaths from unintentional poisonings and deaths from fall injuries per 100,000 persons. Note that burns, drownings, poisonings Read more …

We have revised income per person, with projections. Upto 2009 we use the ordinary “income per person” (Version 9). After 2009 we use IMF projections from the World Economic Outlook database. Visualise the indicator: http://tiny.cc/5ohym

Long-term series has been added, and newer, revised sources has replaced the previous one. The sources used are, in order of priority: (1) Himan mortality database; (2) CME info; (3) estimates based on infant mortality. See the documentation for more info:

www.gapminder.org/data/documentation/gd005/

We have made several, mostly minor, revisions for the indicator “Children per woman (total fertility rate”). We have also deleted several observations before 1950 that were unrealistically high. See more at the documentation page

1. Maternal mortality ratio per 100 000 live births
   (category “Births and deaths”, subcategory “Deaths”)
   – data from WHO.
2. Maternal deaths, total number
   (category “Births and deaths”, subcategory “Deaths”)
   – data from WHO.
3. Number of births, both sexes combined
   (category “Births and deaths”, subcategory “Births”)
   – data from UN Population Read more …
   

Data for 2007 and 2008 has been added, with data from CME info. Several observations for years before 2007 have also been replaced with data from CME info.

Read more in the documentation: www.gapminder.org/data/documentation/gd002/

Due to data quality problem, the following indicators have been removed from Gapminder World:
- Aviation (million kilometres flown)
- Aviation (million passenger-kilometres)
- Aviation (million ton-kilometres)
- Aviation (thousands of passengers carried)

Their original place was in “Technology and infrastructure”.

The new name is “GDP per capita (PPP) from PWT”. This has been done to clarify that the data is adjusted for purchasing power parities (rather than being based on exchange-rates). The tool tip has also been changed to clarify this.

The following indicators have been updated by using the latest World Bank WDI data. Extremely high and low values have been “disabled” in the graph, just in order to show the overall pattern of the world development.

1. Level 1 [Economy]
Military expenditure (% of GDP) graph

2. Level 1 [Economy]
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In the following indicators, 2008 United States data was missing for 2008 due to availability problem, and therefore a 3-year average has been applied (from 2005 to 2007) as the 2008 data, because these 3 indicators have been quite stable during the last several years.

1. Agriculture, contribution to economy (% of GDP)
2. Read more …