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4 indicators in Gapminder World have been updated

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 Read more ...

2008 United States data updating

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. Industry, contribution to Read more ...

World Bank indicators updated in Gapminder World

The following indicators in Gapminder World have been updated from the new data provided by the World Bank: *Agricultural land (% of land area) *Agriculture, contribution to economy (% of GDP) *Arms exports (constant 1990 US$) *Arms imports (constant 1990 US$) *Births attended by skilled health staff (% of total) *Broadband subscribers *Broadband subscribers (per 100 people) *CO2 intensity of economic output (kg Read more ...

New data blog

Here we will post short notices of all updates, revisions and additions we make to the data. Notices of earlier (major) data updates are still available at:
www.gapminder.org/news/

Population growth explained with IKEA boxes

Hans Rosling explains why ending poverty is crucial to stop population growth.

Rosling’s World – a documentary about Hans Rosling

A 55-minute documentary about Hans Rosling's life & thoughts.

Gapminder Desktop user experiences

ReadWriteWeb has published a long, useful and thoughtful comment on their experiences of Gapminder Desktop – we think this comment can be useful for many users to read! Go to:http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/setting_data_free_with_gapminder.php Gapminder Desktop can be downloaded from here:www.gapminder.org/desktop/

Comment via feedback tag on left side

The feedback tag (on the left side of our webpages) brings you to Gapminder service forum on “Get Satisfaction”. http://getsatisfaction.com/gapminder/questions/recent This forum is by now so much used that we today switch of the many diverse comment features below our products and services. Our hope is that this facilitates for you to access the community-powered support and Read more ...

Sweden peaked in teen births 1966

Gapminder World now has an updated indicator for Teen Fertility Rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19). We have added time series for Sweden since 1800 and for US since 1940. Click the link and see the interesting peak in births among teenagers in Sweden in 1966. The drop coincide with the arrival of the Read more ...

Follow the World Cup in Gapminder

32 countries qualified to the Football World Cup in South Africa. In Gapminder World Cup you can see how they score on some football- as well as development indicators.