200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes,Gapminder

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

Gapminder World

Fighting the most devastating myths by building a fact-based world view that everyone understands.

Gapminder is a non-profit venture – a modern “museum” on the Internet – promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.

Gapminder was founded in Stockholm by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Hans Rosling on February 25, 2005. Gapminder is registered as a Foundation at Stockholm County Administration Board (Länstyrelsen i Stockholm) with registration number (organisationsnummer) 802424-7721.

Gapminder does not award any grants. It is an operating foundation that provides sevices as defined by the board, sometimes as collaborative projects with universities, UN organisations, public agencies and non-governmental organisations.

The initial activity was to pursue the development of the Trendalyzer software. Trendalyzer sought to unveil the beauty of statistical time series by converting boring numbers into enjoyable, animated and interactive graphics. The current version of Trendalyzer is available since March 2006 as Gapminder World, a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries.

In March 2007, Google acquired Trendalyzer from the Gapminder Foundation and the team of developers who formerly worked for Gapminder joined Google in California in April 2007. (History of Gapminder)

To fulfill our aim, we at Gapminder are currently working on:
Keeping our tools’ statistical content up-to-date and making time series freely available in Gapminder World and Gapminder Countries.
Producing videos, Flash presentations and PDF charts showing major global development trends with animated statistics in colorful graphics.

All with the intention of being a “fact tank” that promotes a fact based world view.​

Instead of studying history for one year at the university, you can watch this video for less than five minutes.
Income per person (GDP per capita) is adjusted for inflation and for differences in costs of living (purchasing power) across countries. You can play with the data yourself in Gapminder World.
This is a short clip from the longer film The Joy of Stats ©Wingspan Productions for BBC, 2010.



Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. - Gapminder.org

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

Gapminder World Map (2010)

About this Chart

The Gapminder World Map was produced by Gapminder in May 2010, with the latest available data (2008). The chart compares all countries and territories by income and health.

http://www.gapminder.org/GapminderMedia/wp-uploads/pdf_charts/GWM2010.pdf

 

[Donatello]

I think it is a good spot for both Pakistan and India.
Still a very long way to go.

 

[Chogy]

Truly a unique representation of how mankind elevates. I'll bet a lot of the lifespan increase came from the development of antibiotics, and also the huge reduction in infant (and mother) mortality during child-birth.

The thing about the beginning, where life-span average was maybe 40... in reality, what you had was a terrible infant mortality that skewed the average low. If you survived childhood, there was a decent chance you'd make it to 60, or 70, at least. That was one of the reasons (I think) that families were large - obviously little birth control, but it wasn't uncommon to bury two or three of 6 or 7 children. Very sad.

 

[H2O3C4Nitrogen]

The Stats are really amazing, Like Japan having faced the Blow two Atomic Bombs still came out Rich and Healthy.. Truly a Remarkable Nation

 

[CardSharp]

I love stuff like this, graphs and statistics presented in a clear and information packed way. A couple of observations

1) How China and India stood still in health and wealth for 150 some years.

2) China still has not caught up to its former place in relative world ranking even today.

3) The Great Leap Forward was a really shitty period in Chinese history, the Avg life expectancy dropped from 50 to 30 (video year 1957 or time 2:57)

4) Africa is still lagging tragically behind.

5) The clear trend of richer and healthier can only be explained by science, medicine and industry. Something to keep in mind for our future.


Overall was very impressed by the graphical presentation and how well it fitted my concept of world history and world development.

 

[CardSharp]

Another small technical note.

While life expectancy is on a linear scale the wealth scale is logarithmic. Meaning the difference in wealth is actually much larger than it seems on this graph.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

interesting find! Thanks for posting sir

 

[gubbi]

Indeed very fascinating. The presentation of statistical data over a period of time in a very convenient animation tells a story all by itself. Honestly, this just made a very dry subject juicy and succulent to chew upon.

Imagine the impact of this sort of presentations on medical data and histories and the ability to look at particular events with greater detail. I am fascinated indeed!

Thank you H2O3C4Nitrogen (isoxazole-5-carboxylic acid) and damn you! You gave a toy to play for the rest of the day and procrastinate my work!

 

[aristocrat]

This presentation was also made by rosling in ted india.There he even extrapolated the graph till 2040 for india

 

[gubbi]

Wow, data presentation on cancers and HIV is fascinating!

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Here is something longer...

YouTube - Hans Rosling: Asia's rise -- how and when

This is how ever 2 years older then that one.

more of Hans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTznEIZRkLg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpKbO6O3O3M&feature=channel

 

[T-Faz]

One of the reasons attributed to high growth of some western nation during the Industrial revolution is that they were able to obtain wealth and material from their colonies to feed their growth.

This can also explain how the Asian giants remained stagnant, while the western nations steamed forward. Much of the input that went into the Industrial revolution was built upon existing ideas and theories that were earlier adapted for advanced use by the western nations.

Once Europe freed itself from the clutches of the clergy, it truly worker to gain a better life system. Now China and India are repeating the same progress with some other nations.

Pakistan, which was thought to be on the right path and destined to achieve much reversed its progress for reasons well known.

 

[CardSharp]

One of the reasons attributed to high growth of some western nation during the Industrial revolution is that they were able to obtain wealth and material from their colonies to feed their growth.

This can also explain how the Asian giants remained stagnant, while the western nations steamed forward. Much of the input that went into the Industrial revolution was built upon existing ideas and theories that were earlier adapted for advanced use by the western nations.

Once Europe freed itself from the clutches of the clergy, it truly worker to gain a better life system. Now China and India are repeating the same progress with some other nations.

Pakistan, which was thought to be on the right path and destined to achieve much reversed its progress for reasons well known.

There is that but I don't think we can attribute it solely to this. Give credit where credit is due, the industrial revolution is an European/British invention. There was exploitating but this exploitation alone would not have produced the results Europe had. (besides exploitation might not have been possible without the industrial revolution)

 

[gubbi]

There is that but I don't think we can attribute it solely to this. Give credit where credit is due, the industrial revolution is an European/British invention. There was exploitating but this exploitation alone would not have produced the results Europe had. (besides exploitation might not have been possible without the industrial revolution)

True that. However, in the case of India and China, the growth we see is not due to exploitation of other countries in the classic sense of like those by colonial powers of yester years.

How is that Europeans could come up with the idea of Industrial revolution what with all their inbred royalty and always at wars with each other, while Asian and African countries lagged way behind inspite of having decades of relative peace?

Are wars - the bane of civilized society - driving cause for a country's growth? Do wars drive innovation and industrialization?