200 years that changed the world
200 years of history in 4.5 minutes. Let Hans Rosling guide you through the developments of the last two centuries.
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 …
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 …
Life expectancy expanded
We have used some additional sources to add more data to the indicator “Life expectancy at birth”. You can now follow several European countries from the 19th century and India, Sri Lanka and USA from the beginning of the 20th century. Data for Taiwan, which has previously been missing for this indicator, is now available from 1928. Read more …
