Documentation

Gapminder Documentation describes the methods, sources and data used to produce the various datasets of gapminder. The data itself is available through excel files. There is normally one documentation for each indicator, but sometimes several indicators are described in one documentation.

Each documentation has a version number. Whenever we update the data or make other significant changes in the documentation we make a new version. On this page you find the latest version of each documentation and dataset. We might make minor changes to the documentation without calling it a new version, only the date of uploading will change in that case, not the version number.

Contents:
Gapminder Documentation 000 - Gapminder World Chart 2006
Gapminder Documentation 001 - GDP per Capita by Purchasing Power Parities
Gapminder Documentation 002 - Infant Mortality Rate
Gapminder Documentation 003 - Total Population
Gapminder Documentation 004 - Life Expectancy at Birth
Gapminder Documentation 005 - Under-five mortality rate
Gapminder Documentation 006 - HIV/AIDS: prevalence & number of people
Gapminder Documentation 007 - GDP per capity by PPP for sub-national units

Gapminder Documentation 000 - version 1

DATA USED IN GAPMINDER WORLD CHART 2006 (pdf-version).

(Formerly called Gapminder Documentation 2007-1.)

» Download documentation (pdf)
» Go to Gapminder World Chart 2006 (pdf-version)

Gapminder Documentation 001 - version 5

GDP PER CAPITA BY PURCHASING POWER PARITIES

» Download documentation (pdf)
» Download Excel file with data and summary meta-data (xlsx)
» Go to google-spreadsheet that contains a copy of the data - Note: the spreadsheet contains no additional information.
» Go to the google spreadsheet that contains the “data quality rates” for the indicator (spreadsheet)

» Download documentation of version 3 (pdf) - Version 3 is the version of the indicator before the major revision in 22 december 2008. The indicator is available in the graph, it is called “old version of income pre person”

Gapminder Documentation 002 - version 1