Gapminder http://www.gapminder.org Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:55:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en population for Taiwan updated We updated “population, total” & “total population with projections” for Taiwan 1950 and on.

]]> http://www.gapminder.org/data-blog/population-for-taiwan-updated/ 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 ...]]> http://www.gapminder.org/data-blog/dead-and-surviving-kids-per-woman-added/ 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 ...]]> http://www.gapminder.org/data-blog/population-updated/ co2 emissions updated Both per capita and total CO2 emissions have been updated to 2008.

]]> http://www.gapminder.org/data-blog/co2-emissions-updated/ 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/

]]> http://www.gapminder.org/data-blog/life-expectancy-updated/ 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/

]]> http://www.gapminder.org/data-blog/children-per-woman-updated/ Tanzania: Fast drop in child mortality! 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 Read more ...]]> http://www.gapminder.org/news/tanzania-fast-drop-in-child-mortality/ Datasets are not books Some international organisations keep selling public datasets as if they were books. This bad habit is a relic from the time when copying data was expensive. OECD still have a list of public datasets for sale. One item is especially absurd to keep selling. It’s the International Trade by Commodity Statistics Database, available Read more ...]]> http://www.gapminder.org/news/datasets-are-not-books/ Selling sex without HIV in Pakistan People ask me: DO you believe UNAIDS data saying that less than 0.1 % of adults in Pakistan  are HIV infected? YES I DO, the estimate is not based on reporting but on surveys. The uncertainty is wide, yet all surveys indicate that only a fraction of one percent of adults live with HIV in Read more ...]]> http://www.gapminder.org/news/selling-sex-without-hiv-in-pakistan/ 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 ...]]> http://www.gapminder.org/data-blog/military-expenditure-data-upgraded/