New: Country graphs in Google search
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November 11, 2009 
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Back in April Google launched a search function for US public data with interactive graphing. Today, Google has made this feature much more useful with the inclusion of 17 indicators from the World Bank, including the number of internet users, life expectancy, and a host of other indicators for most of the world’s countries.
Click this link to see South Africa’s life expectancy in the new graph. Click the graph in the search result to see an interactive graph where you can compare with other countries.
Note that this currently only works when searching google.com, not country-specific sites such as google.fr.
Also read Google’s official announcement:
World Bank public data, now in search
Is the life expectancy of people in every country of the world linked to the political decisions made by the governement of evrey country?
In countries where vaccines were thought for a very long time to be inefficient against some diseases, the tax paid by the people with no access to better informations than that provided by their own governments about health has had the negative impact of shortening their life expectancy.
My question would be should the governments or leaders be in charge of taking decisions regarding which vaccines are to be used by the citizens for any ill heatlth or should this be left to the citizens themselves, so they could have a chance to live slightly longer?
Life expectancy in the case of South Africa is not necessarily linked to poverty, rather to governmental wrong decision which influences life expectancy of its citizens.
What is the percentage of wrong or delayed decisions taken by governments which have shortened the life expectancy of millions of their nationals and civilians worldwide?
This is great!
What can we do do to add value to this project in Nigeria and west Africa.
This region is in dire need of reliable data for business decisions.
Best regards, and god luck.