Congo's income adjusted upwards in Gapminder World
Income per person for Democratic Republic of Congo has been revised. We have made an upward adjustment of the income for 2005 with 25%. We have also adjusted the growth rate from 1991 and on. Congo is still the poorest country in the world. The background and details of this adjustment are documented in our documentation, Read more …
Children per women since 1800 in Gapminder World
The data for “Children per woman (total fertility)” has been updated to cover 195 countries from 1800-2008. It is now possible to see the entire “demographic transition” that most countries have followed: going from many children and short lives, too few children and long lives. » Click here to see children per woman vs life expectancy Read more …
“Income per person” revised
We have made a number of revisions of “Income per person”.
Income per person in Gapminder World
The name of the main income indicator shown when Gapminder World is started has been revised for clarity, but the data remain the same. It is now called “Income per person (GDP/capita, inflation-adjusted $).
See new surprising trends in HIV
New dataset on HIV trends in Gapminder World.
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 model. This Read more …
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 here. Note that the Read more …
Income per person updated to 2007
Income per person (i.e. GDP per capita) has been updated to 2007. Here is one example for 2007 where income per person is plotted against Life expectancy at birth. Note that the GDP data will be revised in a near future, taking into account the latest round of PPP from the ICP.
Data on CO2 emissions updated
Gapminder World now incorporates the latest update on carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. This update adds more recent data and makes some corrections for earlier years. Data are now available from 1751-2005. See this example graph which shows CO2 emissions per person against income per person, with the bubble size representing total CO2 Read more …
"Population" is now complete for all countries 1800-2008
We have updated the indicator “population, total” so that it covers all countries and territories from 1800 to 2008. Population is by default used for the size of the bubbles in Gapminder World. With “all countries and territories” we mean all the 192 UN-member plus 61 other entities (e.g. semi-autonomous territories, former countries and disputed Read more …
