May 15th, 2011
Barbados – Haiti: 15 -1
Michel Martelly was sworn in Saturday as the new president of Haiti. He face a relay tough task! Since 1950 GDP/capita has not grown at all, it remains around 1 thousand dollar per person in Haiti. In spite of this Life expectancy has increased from 36 to 61 years. So with money sent home from relatives in US and Read more …
May 15th, 2011
Azerbaijan, better than ever!
Azerbaijan not only won the European Song Contest 2011, it also has among the highest oil and natural gas production per person in the world www.bit.ly/iNksgW Not only has the income per person steadily imporved since 1995, but so has also the mean number of years in school for women and Azerbadjan has today higher GDP/ capita Read more …
May 12th, 2011
BRIC like Africa
The economic growth in Africa is more than 5% per year and that is faster than world average. Companies in emerging economies (=middle income countries or BRIC) are more positive to invest in Africa than are those i high income countries says report from World Economic Forum http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GCR_Africa_Report_2011.pdf Look how so many countries in Africa in this century Read more …
May 8th, 2011
Fast economic growth in East Africa!
Today at the airport in Stockholm I met a happy Swedish couple flying out to their new investment abroad! They had renovated and opened a hotel on “Ihla”, the historic capital in northern Mocambique. Obviously done the right thing to do. International Monetary Fund, IMF tell us that there is now fast economic growth throughout East Africa. Look at Read more …
May 8th, 2011
Ivory Coast dropped, Egypt rised GDP/c
35 years ago Ivory Coast and Egypt had the same GDP/capita and the same Life Expectancy. In this year of revolution Egyptians have 4 fold better GDP/capita and live more than 10 years longer than Ivorians. So Egypt did progress in health and economy during Mubarak, but people also want democracy. Ivory Coast today had its elected president swarm in but he has Read more …
May 7th, 2011
Bangladesh has outdone Pakistan!
At independence in 1972 people in Bangladesh lived on average 1o years shorter than in Pakistan, whereas both countries had very large families, 7 children per women. Bangladesh has in the last 4 decades increased the life span from 44 to 67 years; now on par with Pakistan. In the change to small families Bangladesh has dropped from 7 to 2.3 children per Read more …
May 5th, 2011
Pakistan military budget is 10 x health budget !
i Just became aware of how very exceptional the BUDGET of the Pakistan government is. The government spend 4% of GDP on military, as high as the much richer USA do!! In % of GDP USA and Pakistan have among the highest military spendings in the world! But in health the countries are very different! Read more …
May 4th, 2011
Reducing deaths yielded fewer kids!
Click to see Gapminder World showing number of children per women (vertical) and child mortality (horizontally) for the countries of the world in 1960. (each bubble=one country). Back in 1960 there was a developing world with many children and high child mortality! Click Play and watch how child mortality falls and then how also number of Read more …
