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.
Gapminder Documentation 000 - Gapminder World Chart 2006
Gapminder Documentation 001 - GDP per Capita by Purchasing Power Parities for Countries and Territories
Gapminder Documentation 002 - Infant Mortality Rate for Countries and Territories
Gapminder Documentation 003 - Total Population for Countries and Territories
Gapminder Documentation 004 - Life Expectancy at Birth for Countries and Territories
Gapminder Documentation 005 - Under-five mortality rate for Countries and Territories
Gapminder Documentation 006 - Coming soon
GAPMINDER DOCUMENTATION 000 - version 1
Formerly called Gapminder Documentation 2007-1.
Documentation for the data used in Gapminder World Chart 2006 (pdf-version).
Download documentation (pdf)
Go to Gapminder World Chart 2006 (pdf-version)
GAPMINDER DOCUMENTATION 001 - version 4
GDP per capita by Purchasing Power Parities for countries and territories
Documentation (pdf) - Coming Soon
Go to google-spreadsheet that contains a copy of the data - Note: the spreadsheet contains no additional information.
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 vailable in the graph, it is called “old version of income pre person”
GAPMINDER DOCUMENTATION 002 - version 1
Infant Mortality Rate for countries and territories
Download documentation (pdf)
Go to the google-spreadsheet that contains a copy of the data - Note: the spreadsheet contains no additional information.
GAPMINDER DOCUMENTATION 003 - version 1
Total Population for countries and territories
Download documentation (pdf)
Download Excel-file with data & summary meta-data (xls) - Referred to as “Population data (xls)” in the documentation
Download Excel-file with data, including interpolations & detailed meta-data (xlsx) - Referred to as “Population data & working notes data” in the documentation. Note: the file is in zip-format and is relatively large.
Go to the google-spreadsheet that contains a copy of the data - Note: the spreadsheet contains no additional information.
Go to the google-spreadsheet that contains a copy of the “data quality rates” for the indicator - Note: the spreadsheet contains no additional information.
GAPMINDER DOCUMENTATION 004 - version 2
Life Expectancy at Birth for countries and territories
Download documentation (pdf) - coming soon
Go to the google-spreadsheet that contains a copy of the data - Note: the spreadsheet contains no additional information.
Go to the google-spreadsheet that contains a copy of the “data quality rates” for the indicator
Download documentation of version 1 (pdf) - Version 1 is the version of the indicator that was in use before 22 december 2008. The documentation of the present version is coming soon.
GAPMINDER DOCUMENTATION 005 - version 1
Under-five mortality rate for countries and territories
Download documentation (pdf)
Go to the google-spreadsheet that contains a copy of the data - Note: the spreadsheet contains no additional information.