Human Development Trends, 2005
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Excellent! I wish we can get help to debvelop such presenatations.
I used this site to get information for that i had in my class. This is an excellent site for this information
Visual presentation is the best way to present the data. Your hard work and creativity are greatly appreciated. Thank you much.
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I thought you guys will be glad to learn that I will be using this on my course of natural resources to agronomists in Brazil
this is a good way of presenting data. It’s clear and effective.
anyway, i feel sorry for the slow development of my country.:(
Portuguese Version is not available for download…
Excelentes presentaciones muy didacticas y me permite enfocar temas de una manera práctica y simple en los proyectos productivos.
Wonderfull education tool !
I hope that a dutch version will be available.
Please send us the software to load our data.
This is excellent.
Stranger
Excelent
Please send us the template to use for presenting our own data.
This is an excellent method.
Kindest Regards
How come $1 -poverty line stays the same, be in 1990 or 2015?
Over 25 years time, the dividing line should move right, which might still put the poor relatively a constant 20% of the total population.
Dear Harsha,
Thank you for your interest in gapminder. It is a very important question you bring up.
It is true, as you say, that using incomes without taking inflation into account would lead to a totally misleading picture since the poverty line would be higher if prices are higher.
Therefore, the data we used in the presentation have all been adjusted for inflation. All income-data is expressed in so-called fixed prices, in fixed 1999 prices to be more precise. Hence, “one dollar” in the presentation corresponds to the amount of goods and services a dollar could buy in 1999.
Furthermore, the data has also been adjusted for differences in the purchasing powers between different countries, with the help of so-called Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs).
If you want to know more details about how the data was calculated you can read the source used in the presentation (a background paper for the Human Development Report 2005):
Dikhanov, Yuri (2005). Trends in global income distribution, 1970-2000, and scenarios for 2015. Human Development Report Office Occasional paper http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/globalincometrends.pdf
All this being said it is important to remember that adjustments like these are very difficult. Inflation data are based on the price development for a basket of many goods and services. This basket of goods and services are not necessarily representative of what the poor consumes. The data on poverty hence has many uncertainties. On the other hand, we have other indicators of poverty, such as health, which are easier to measure. These have also shown some improvements in some parts of the world (but not in other).
There are now more recent data on poverty and income distribution than the data used in the presentation above, “PovCalNet”. This data use more elaborate price data that are now available. You find the new poverty data at:
Worldbank.org (click here).
regards,
Mattias Lindgren,
Gapminder
Esto realmente es indignante, el hombre en sí no se aleja del concepto de Hombre económico, actuamos por una autosatisfacción, mas no pensamos en lo que realmente es importante el bienestar del mundo, más allá de las fronteras políticas, y de toda clase de división regional existe nuestra calidad de humanos, no seamos egoístas ni indiferentes a esta situación, nuestra vida puede ayudar a la vida de otros.
Google translate: (added by Gapminder)
This is really outrageous, man does not move away from the concept of economic man, an act of complacency, but not think about what is really important to the welfare of the world, beyond the political boundaries, and any kind of division regional quality of our human there, let us not be selfish or indifferent to this situation, our life can help the lives of others.
La distribuccion del ingreso en el mundo tiene parametros muy acimetrico en ciertos apectos, como en otros son totalmente diferentes, definimos ingreso como todos aquellos fondos de efectivo o de bienes que recibe las organizaciónes para llevar a cabo su operatividad. Estos ingresos pueden ser generados por venta de servicios, donaciones u otros, esta definicion se
centra en los ingresos de empresas, pero para la funcionalidad de estas empresas existe los ingresos operarios, donde se denotan todas las familias
para tener un sustentoo de acuerdo a su trabajo que desemepeñe en ellas; teniendo en cuenta estos parametros en el mundo productivo se llevan acabo el mismo sistema de productividad y asi el mismo grado de clasificacion de ingresos dependiendo a los cargos que desempeñen las familias.
Pero la diferencia enorme que existen a nivel mundial es la distribucion equitativa de los ingresos para que la sociedad no tenga umbrales de pobreza
o que la pobreza no tengan un gran porcentaje en cualquier pais del mundo, como vemos en los estudios realizados esta desigualdad varia de pais en pais, donde algunos paises como brazil tienen unas tasas gigantes o como paises desarrollados la diferencia no estan grande como Japon.
Teniendo en cuenta estos y mas aspectos nos impreciona ver que al tener tan grandes diferencias de desigualdad los estados que nos gobiernen no puedan llegar a acuerdos, programas, propuestas y de mas para hacer que decresca cada ves mas, pues los estudios muestra que en muchos paises los indices de pobreza aumentan y aumentan y no se encuentra remedio para la distribuccion equitativa de los ingresos.
Google translate: (added by Gapminder)
The Distribution of income in the world is very acimetrico certain parameters apect, as in others are completely different, we define income as all those cash funds or property received by the organizations to carry out its operations. These revenues can be generated by selling services, donations or other, this definition
focuses on the income of companies, but for the functionality of these companies is revenue trades, which denote all the families
to have a sustentoo according to their work desemepeñe them, taking into account these parameters in the manufacturing sector are carried out using the same system of productivity and thus the same level of classification of revenues according to the charges on which they exercise their families.
But the huge gap that exists worldwide is the equitable distribution of income so that the absence of poverty thresholds
or that poverty does not have a large percentage in any country of the world as we see from this inequality studies vary by country, where some countries like Brazil have giant fees or developed countries the difference is not big as Japan.
Considering these aspects and more we see that the inaccuracies have such large differences in inequality that we state government can not reach agreements, programs, proposals and more to make ever more decresca, since research shows that many countries, poverty rates increase and increase and it is not equitable remedy for the Distribution of Income.
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hmmmmmm
very good
hmmmmmm
(detremental)
Do you have latest updates of the presentation for 2006, 2007 or 2008.
Regards,
Tracy
Muy buena presentacion, increible las diferencias.
In English from Google Translate:
Very good presentation, incredible differences
Tracy, I am sorry but no Human Development Trends has been produced since 2005. And the data in 2005 is hard coded in flash so that version can’t be updated very easily either.
/Staffan, Gapminder
No doubt we are heading in the right direction when it comes about meeting the poverty line goal… assuming that CURRENT RATES OF GROWTH CAN BE SUSTAINED!! And there is where I see the greatest problem.
The assumption that poverty can be eliminated through growth is a mistaken believe based in what I call “the bigger cake fallacy”: <>
Well, I have news from you: the cake can’t keep growing!!
In any case, I would like to see how can you beat with “hard data” the arithmetic of an exponential function against a world of limited size and resources…
Oops, could you correct my message, please? Somehow the text between the was not processed…
…what I call “the bigger cake fallacy”: “What is more desirable: equal slices from a steady cake, or unequal slices from a much bigger cake where even its smallest slice is bigger than a slice from the other?”
On the other side, could you please explain why did you decide to use a logaritmic scale in the “World Income Distribution” chart?
If your intention was to make the distribution to appear more normal and, therefore, “less repulsive” than it really is, you did a pretty good job, however, where 80% of the population is located, there is just a difference of $10 to the origin, which is really a much smaller gap to fulfill than the one from there to $100 . In relative terms 10/1 might be the same as 100/10, but in absolute terms (which is how people actually earn -since most of them are not investors) the difference is $90 to $10!!
On the other side, don’t you think it is quite dishonest to make less explicit the fact that MOST OF THE POPULATION IS POORER THAN THE AVERAGE?
For those who don’t understand how that can be possible, let’s take a simple example: suppose we have a population of 100 people, 80 of them living with 10 dollars a day, 17 with 20, 2 with 80, and 1 with 100, and so, inspite of the fact that we had a population with an average income per capita of (80p*$10 17p*$20 2p*$80 1p*$100)/100p = $14, 80% of the population is living with less than that, in other words, A MAJORITY WHICH IS POORER THAN THE AVERAGE!! This is actually the case in distributions with a high pick on one side, and an elongated flat tail on the other -which is exactly what this misleading chart tries to conceal!! Isn’t it amazing how easy it is to deceive the public with statistics? Not in vane Benjamin Disraeli used to say: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and… statistics!”.
Also I dislike the fact that comments have to await for moderation: either you support freedom of speech or not, but freedom of speech “as you like it” is non-sense. Improper language can be automatically filtered, so there is really no justification for such action.
Very interesting and reader friendly. We all know that these figures can only be mattered when they make meaning and impact to our sense. This is a very impressive visual presentation on this longitudinal figure crossing decades.
Thank you for letting us download for making the presentation stronger.
Thank you.
exellente site
Es lo mejor que he visto nunca para explicar la situación del mundo. Lo útilizaré para mis alumnos de secundaria. Muchas gracias!
Wow, what a thought provoking set of presentations!!!
Great insights into so many issues.