Gapminder - demographics in pretty colours

[Senethro]

http://tools.google.com/gapminder

This was just so nicely presented and easy to use that I had to share. You can bring up lots of measures of poverty/wealth and compare those in different nations over time. Yes, it sounds boring but play about with it and learn something.

I learned south africas life expectancy plunged after 1980 by about 20 years. Also, India's GDP/capita increased as the %age of women in its workforce decreased! Cause or effect>?

[Fionnlagh]

That is quite simply brilliant. I could have hours of fun with this!!!!


A particularly good one is comparing US and UK life expectancy over time with the animation, particularly if you have physicians per 1000 people on the other axis.

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[cberry]

Zimbabwe and South Africa seem particularly bad at this game.

[Gubbins]

Oooh... hours of procrastinatory goodness! I especially like the fact that the US military budget (as a percentage of GDP) is 3 times that of the UK. Think of all the better things that money could go towards...

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...but then again, that is only my opinion.

[Bizarre Atheist]

I'm not clever enough to appreciate this as much as I feel it is due.

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[flarewearer]

Quoting Gubbins from 19:58, 29th Jan 2007
Oooh... hours of procrastinatory goodness! I especially like the fact that the US military budget (as a percentage of GDP) is 3 times that of the UK. Think of all the better things that money could go towards...

Or How the military budgets of Eritrea, Oman, Jordan are twice that (as a percentage of GDP) than that of the US. Think of all the better things that money could go towards...

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[Tweedle-Dum]

Quoting flarewearer from 01:50, 30th Jan 2007

Quoting Gubbins from 19:58, 29th Jan 2007
Oooh... hours of procrastinatory goodness! I especially like the fact that the US military budget (as a percentage of GDP) is 3 times that of the UK. Think of all the better things that money could go towards...

Or How the military budgets of Eritrea, Oman, Jordan are twice that (as a percentage of GDP) than that of the US. Think of all the better things that money could go towards...

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Mainly because ours is far too low.

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Tetragrammaton is a four letter word.

[oddly familiar]

One really interesting thing to look at is population vs carbon emmissions per capita. Despite an increasing population, the decrease in carbon emmissions per person means that the total (according to the figures on this map) emmissions for the UK in 2002 were 545.6 million tonnes, compared to 1960's 576.1 million. Looks like we're heading in the right direction anyway.

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