May 4th, 2011
The World has reached Peak Number of Children!
BREAKING NEWS FROM UN POPULATION DIVISION world population continueS to grow, but the number of children in the world has now reached its peak. In 1960 we were 1 billion children below 15 years of age and we were 35% of the world population. Now there are 1,9 billion children in the world, but they are but Read more …
May 4th, 2011
UN: we will be 9 b 2050 & 10 b 2100
Great day for the curious! UN releases World Population Prospects 2010 http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm No more grouping of countries into developed and developing! Instead countries are grouped based on fertility into low (ex. Vietnam, Iran & Brazil), intermediate (ex Egypt, USA, Bangladesh, South Africa), and high fertility (ex Pakistan, Nigeria, Congo & Bolivia) ! The high-fertility countries (> 3 kids per women) Read more …
May 4th, 2011
Bangladesh is better than we show!
Gapminder World displays the latest datasets available for different aspects of the progress of countries. The data for the last years are mostly estimations based on extrapolations from survey made in earlier years. When new survey results appear they should more or less correspond to the estimations if countries progress as expected. BUT sometimes the Read more …
January 27th, 2011
Who knows more about the world – you or a Chimp?
Hans Rosling’s Test is now live on Facebook. Play to find out if you know more about the world than a Chimpanzee! Some of you may already follow us on Facebook, otherwise please also visit our Facebook page and become a fan.
November 17th, 2010
New Oil & Energy data from IEA
Gapminder World now have longer and more complete data series on Energy and Oil data from IEA http://www.gapminder.org/data-blog/oil-production-indicators-updated/ and http://www.gapminder.org/data-blog/6-energy-indicators-added/
October 28th, 2010
War, murder, suicide & traffic deaths
We have displayed best available data on deatsh in war, due to murder, suicide and trafic deaths http://www.gapminder.org/data-blog/seven-indicators-added/
October 17th, 2010
Education data 1970-2009
The Institute of Health Metrics have estimated mean number of years in school for men and women in different age-groups for almost all countries. The methods used for these estimates are well-documented. This data reveal that there is no correlation between educations level in counatries and the % of adults living with HIV www.bit.ly/aI39Ql You Read more …
October 8th, 2010
Card Game on global gaps
To allow your students to relax from the computer´s and still learn about the world Gapminder has made a quick-to-learn Card game that is free to download: http://www.gapminder.org/downloads/card-game/
