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A brand new Gapminder.org

As you can see, Gapminder’s web site has got a facelift, but also some helpful new features. Here are the most important new features that will help you explore the world with Gapminder. New and improved Gapminder World Most new features can be found in Gapminder World, the on-line graph that displays the development for [...]

Rosling on “100 top global thinker”-list

Hans Rosling, founder and director of Gapminder, is one of the world's "100 most important global thinkers" of 2009, according to Foreign Policy Magazine.

Visualizing Swedish development aid

How can Swedish bi- and multilateral development cooperation be visualized? The illustrations help answer questions such as:

How does Sweden allocate resources to UNDP and other UN organizations over time?
How much of the development cooperation by SIDA is allocated to Education?
... and within Education, or any other sector, which countries and regions are the main recipients?

Asia’s rise, how and when (TEDIndia)

Hans Rosling predicts the exact date India and China will have the same income per person as the US.

Asia’s rise – Hans Rosling at TEDIndia in new video

At TEDIndia, the first ever TED-conference in Asia, Hans Rosling spoke about the rise of Asia and showed how the region has developed over the last 150 years. » See video here

Open Lecture with Hans Rosling (in Swedish)

Monday 23 November, Hans Rosling will give an open lecture at Uppsala University. The title of the lecture is “Civil War, Aid, Competition and Latte – a fact based view on four types of countries”. The lecture is given in Swedish and moderated by the science journalist Jan-Olov Johansson Date: Monday 23 November, 2009 Time: 19:00 – [...]

New: Country graphs in Google search

Back in April Google launched a search function for US public data with interactive graphing. Today, Google has made this feature much more useful with the inclusion of 17 indicators from the World Bank, including the number of internet users, life expectancy, and a host of other indicators for most of the world’s countries. Click this [...]

New data: Dramatic increase in girls’ age of marriage

There are large differences across the world in the age at the first marriage for girls. Some regions have experienced a dramatic increase. This can be seen in the new dataset compiled by Gapminder. Compare the “age at first marriage (girls)” with “children per woman” in Gapminder World (new window). Arab women who used to [...]

New bubble graph: Gapminder Agriculture

Which country has the biggest grain production? Who produce most fruits, vegetables, nuts, coffee or other crops? And who raises most sheeps, cows, or other livestock?

Now you can see agricultural production in a complete new Gapminder Graph. With data from FAO, we have collected over 700 indicators to show how agricultural production has changed over the last 45 years.

Congo's income adjusted upwards in Gapminder World

Income per person for Democratic Republic of Congo has been revised. We have made an upward adjustment of the income for 2005 with 25%. We have also adjusted the growth rate from 1991 and on. Congo is still the poorest country in the world. The background and details of this adjustment are documented in our documentation, [...]