Large number of new indicators added
We have added over 100 new indicators, covering a wide variety of topics in health, economics, inequality, technology, geography and more.
Note: the indicator set is a “work in progress”, so expect indicators to be added and revised in the near future. Their names might also be revised and more detailed explanations will be added. Please also note that the coverage (in number of countries and time span) is generally smaller for these new indicators.
I’m losing sleep because of you guys!
It would be wonderful if you could develop an arrangement with the OECD to take a large number of their indicators and add them to this format. This would be especially useful for measures of health, education, poverty, social inequality, and other measures related to the impact of globalization.
Dear Bradford, a great idea and in fact just put into effect.
OECD put their Fact Book 2008 in a Gapminder Graph only weeks ago and became the first member of Gapminder Graphs community to publish their own graph.
You can find their Gapminder Graph on their web-page:
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/25/0/40679627.html
/Staffan, Gapminder
A Death Rate indicator?
In in discussions of the severity of the AIDS crisis I always show the decrease in life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa starting around 1990. It has occurred to me that a Death Rate indicator might show the information in an even more compelling way.
Similarly, this indicator might be useful in discussions of the 1918 flu pandemic as well as World War II (life expectancy in France dropped from 60 years in 1939 to a low of 47 years in 1944).
Would it be possible to include one or more indicators of this type? It would probably be best if the indicators could be tied to age ranges i.e. Deaths per Thousand for Ages 20 to 40.
You still have one of the best sites on the net,
Humbaba3000BC
Dear Humbaba3000BC
thanks for your suggestion (and for liking our site). Childhood mortality (for which we already have two indicators) is among the more important and sensitive measures of a country’s health, but I agree that some indicator(s) for adult mortality could be interesting to add. As you say, it could be relevant for instance for visualizing wartime mortality and epidemics, like AIDS and also the flu of 1918 which had a high mortality among adults worldwide. (Very few countries have year-to-year data on mortality back in 1918 however.) The UN has estimated global child mortality back to 1950, but puts less focus on adult mortality and the dataset I found only has this from 1990 and later ( http://data.un.org/Data.aspx?q=adult+mortality&d=WHO&f=inID%3aMBD16 ). The Human Mortality Database http://www.mortality.org has earlier data but only for countries with civil registration. Do you have any suggestion of additional datasets for mortality?
/Klara
Klara,
Thank you for your response. Unfortunately, I do not know of any other databases which might provide information on death rates. I looked at the human mortality database and found that it had a lot of the information. Unfortunately, the data was not in a Gapminder-friendly form.
If I run across a website that has the necessary information I will let you know.
Humbaba3000BC
Index of indicators?
I really appreciate all the new indicators that have been added to GapMinder. Unfortunately, I am now having trouble remembering where each indicator is located. Is there an index of the hierarchy of indicators?
Thank you for your help,
Humbaba3000BC
Humbaba3000BC,
This is indeed an important feature that we must find a better way of solving as we add more and more indicators. For now, the best, but clearly very imperfect way, is to go to the page “indicators in gapminder world” (you find it in the right side on the top of this page):
http://www.gapminder.org/world/blog/?page_id=5
There you can find a link called “download indicator list to excel”. If you download that list you get the present list of indicators we have, and the headings of each indicator (in the columns “menue level 1″ and menue level 2″.
Once you have the list you can use the search functions in excel to find the indicators you want, and see under what headings in the graph you find them.
Hopefully we come up with some better way of searching for indicators in the not too distant future.
Regards,
mattias, Gapminder