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fertility updated

admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:56:24 +0000

We made a minor revision of “children per women” and “children per women with projections”. The revision concerns Taiwan, Virgin Island (US), Hing Kong and Qatar.

New category: main religion

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:08:18 +0000

We have added a new way to categories the bubbles (by colors): main religion in 2008. See link.

alcohol data updated

admin — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 08:20:08 +0000

More years have been added. See the graph.

population for Taiwan updated

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:55:14 +0000

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

dead and surviving kids per woman added

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:26:27 +0000

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 here.

Population updated

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:58:43 +0000

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 available in Gapminder World, but it refers to version 1 of “total population”.

For more information please go to the documentation page.

co2 emissions updated

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:38:22 +0000

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

Life expectancy updated

admin — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:30:57 +0000

“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/

Children per woman updated

admin — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:53:21 +0000

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/

Tanzania: Fast drop in child mortality!

hans — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:55:46 +0000

UN just published estimates for child mortality in all countries in 2010! http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Child_Mortality_Report_2011_Final.pdf

It is a well documented compilation that brings much good news! Child mortality counted as deaths < 5 years per 1000 born has dropped in Tanzania that had:

1995: 155 deaths per 1000 born (Sweden had this rate 1896)

2010: 76 deaths per 1000 born (Sweden had this rate 1928)

This means that what Tanzania achieved in the last 15 years took Sweden 32 years to do! Tanzania improves with twice the speed of historical Sweden. They are catching-up. Tanzania´s average annual rate of reduction of child mortality over the last 15 years was 4.6 %. The Millennium Development Goal rate set by UN is an annual average rate of reduction of 4.3%! Tanzania is moving faster! But during the 5 years between 1990 and 1995 the child mortality in Tanzania was stagnant at about 155 per 1000 born. Some still measure MDG rate from 1990 and says Tanzania is not moving fast enough. But this is ridiculous (sorry for hard but true word). The MDG´s were set in 2000 and the use of a retrospective starting point makes no sense 10 years later. It is the speed of progress that matter, not the distance covered from a point back in history! Honor to Tanzania that is moving faster than MDG rate. Honor also to those that assisted in this magnificent achievement in reducing child mortality!

Hans Rosling