Gapminder
Posted by Chris Ball Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:43:00 GMT
Allow me to enthuse about Gapminder a little, and this presentation.
Some interesting queries:
- fertility rate in Iran — Iran is the only country in the world to require couples to take a class on modern contraception before receiving a marriage license, in order to reduce the fertility rate, but they didn't start doing that until 1986.
- GDP per capita and child survival in Malaysia and the US — they have the same child survival rate, even though the GDP per capita in Malaysia is $9k and in the US it's $40k.
- fertility rate in Mexico — a drop from 6 children per woman in 1975 to 2.2 children per woman in 2004.
- life expectancy in Botswana — shows how massively HIV has hit.
There's more on Gapminder's website.
Glad you like it! Did you know you can link straight to graphs you find interesting?
Iran
Child survival
Mexican fertility
HIV in Botswana
/Henrik Lindahl Developer at Gapminder Foundation
for an introduction to Gapminder, everyone should run, not walk, to see Hans Rosling's talk on the topic:
http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/index.cfm?flashEnabled=1
fascinating stuff!
is there any mass edit plugs section? want to change my blog script - it's wp now.
Well, Iran is the only country that its government is pushing its citizens progress back instead or pulling them forward. Not much to expect there for a while.