February 17th, 2009
"Yes they can!"
Swedish students say: “They can never live like us” Time to rethink!
Watch this new video with Hans Rosling.
February 16th, 2009
Resources for teachers
We are planning to develop resources and manuals to make it easier for teachers to use gapminder in their teaching.
We already have found a couple of resources on the net (see links below).
We welcome any feedback, suggestions or comments from teachers who wants to use, or are already using, the resources of gapminder Read more …
February 4th, 2009
See new surprising trends in HIV
New dataset on HIV trends in Gapminder World.
December 23rd, 2008
Democracy indicator added
We have now added an indicator of how countries are governed. This indicator puts countries on a spectrum from democracy to autocracy through expert scoring on a number of criteria. The range of the indicator is from 10 (fully instititutionalized democracy) to -10 (hereditary monarchy). See the example graph here (look at the colour Read more …
December 22nd, 2008
Life expectancy at birth updated and expanded
We have made an update of the indicator Life expectancy at birth. To see this indicator together with Income per capita, follow this link.
The biggest change is that we now show this indicator for 155 countries back to 1800, although in most cases, the early estimates are based on a very rough Read more …
December 22nd, 2008
Income per person revised and expanded
We now have data for 219 countries and territories for 1800-2007, although the data for the 19th century are largely based on rough assumptions. For a couple of countries the revisions mean substantial changes. You can still find the old version of the indicator, under “For advanced users”.
See the new indicator Read more …
December 11th, 2008
See Gaps within US
Unemployment rate
See which state of US has the highest unemployment rate over the last 3 decades.
Immigrants
See which state of US is the most attractive to foreign immigrants in 2005.
South was poorer, but not any longer
See development of all states of US Read more …
December 10th, 2008
Asia best in math
A new international comparison in math achievement has just been released. Here we have plotted the average achievement for children in the 8th grade against Income per person in each country. Here we have the same graph but with the results for 4th graders. As can be seen, the top five achievers are all East Read more …
