Comments on: Open lecture with Hans Rosling (in Swedish)

By: Vasant Kumar

Vasant Kumar — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:41:42 +0000

Brilliant talk at TED once again Hans – you do it every time! Congrats!

BTW, your public version of the software does not allow decomposition of countries by quartiles etc. like you showed during the presentation. Is that in a different version of the software?

Thanks again for a delightful show on Mindset vs. Dataset!

By: Staffan

Staffan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:51:21 +0000

Dear Jason, thanks for your question. Yes, there has been an increase in Aid over the last 10 years. The spike in you US Aid you see comes first of all from a historically low position from a few years with around 0,10% of GNI in aid. US had normally before been twice as high. Also the big spike is mainly due to debt relief to Iraq and Nigeria and the aid to Afghanistan and Iraq due to the last years wars is a big part of US increase. After 2005 US aid fell with 22% in two years, but US is in absolute money, by far still the biggest contributor in the world. Calculated as percentage of the national income however, US and Japan is are the two countries with the lowest aid, with only 0,18% of GNI, far behind the international 0,7%-target. The global average is 0,30%. The somewhat "abnormal" spike in the middle of the decade meant that it looked like aid was decreasing the years after but last year, 2008, the global aid-flows were again as its highest with almost 120 billion dollars in real terms. There is now a fear that the financial crises could turn that trend downwards, in a time where aid is perhaps is more needed than before. /Staffan

By: Jason Minters

Jason Minters — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:37:01 +0000

I wont be at the lecture but I had a question, I’ve been playing with the Gapminder and I can’t figure out why from 2001 USA has a had spike over other nations in AID given? And is this going to be a trend world wide?

By: Staffan

Staffan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:12:53 +0000

Dear Suedip, Nepal is included in the list, go to Gapminder World to see. /Staffan, Gapminder

By: Staffan

Staffan — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:21:59 +0000

Dear Chris, you can find Electricity in Gapminder World. Just click on one of the axis and choose, Energy > Electricity and there you have a few indicators to choose from. Or click here to see Electric Power Consumption plotted against GDP. /Staffan, Gapminder

By: Fiket · Hans Rosling bei TED und KI

Fiket · Hans Rosling bei TED und KI — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:19:37 +0000

[...] Abend hält Rosling einen öffentlichen Vortrag am KI in Solna. Ich glaube, ich geh’ da [...]

By: Chris Greacen

Chris Greacen — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 22:01:19 +0000

It would be great to have one of these showing electrification rates vs. gdp per capita.

By: suedip

suedip — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:51:25 +0000

i wonder why your programme hasn’t got any information on Nepal.
would really be great if i could find something in it.

but is there any specific reasons for not having nepal on the list.