By using the latest data from MDG indicators, 6 infrastructure indicators have been added into Gapminder World:

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The indicator “Democracy score” has been updated using the latest data from Polity IV.

View the graph here .

The written documentation for GDP per capita has now been uploaded:

//www.gapminder.org/data/documentation/gd001/

We have finally uploaded an excel-file with all the sources and meta-data for Income per person. You find it at the documentation page.

Based on the latest data from the MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, 6 health indicators have been added into Gapminder World:

1. Body Mass Index (BMI), men, Kg/m2
2. Body Mass Index (BMI), women, Kg/m2
3. Blood pressure, men, mmHg
4. Blood pressure, women, mmHg
5. Cholesterol (fat) in blood, men, mmol/L
6. Cholesterol (fat) in blood, women, mmol/L

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Based on the data from UN Population Division, Gapminder Foundation has added the estimated number of annual new births for each country from 1953 till 2030.

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Based on the latest UNAIDS data, 3 new indicators of HIV have been added into Gapminder World:
– Newly HIV infected (number, all ages)
– Newly HIV infected (%, age 15-49)
– Annual HIV deaths (number, all ages)

The original 2 indicators of HIV in Gapminder World have also been updated using the latest UNAIDS data:
– People living with HIV (number, all ages)
– Adults with HIV (%, age 15-49)

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The following 4 indicators have been upgraded by using the latest WDI data.

1. Energe use, per person;
2. Energe use, total;
3. Energy production, per person;
4. Energy production, total.

Also the structure of category “Energy” has been re-organized by energy sources.

During our previous database maintenance, we removed from Gapminder World the indicators for cancer mortality rate and annual deaths. But according to the feedbacks from our keen users, we decided to put them back into Gapminder World.

Please find the indicators from sub-category “Health” -> “Cancer, female” or “Cancer, male”.

The following energy indicators have been added into Gapminder World, by using the latest data from IEA (International Energy Agency):

Electricity use, per person
Electricity use, total
Residential electricity use, per person
Residential electricity use, total
Hydro power generation, per person
Hydro power generation, total
Nuclear power generagion, per person
Nuclear power generagion, total

The following indicators have been updated by using the latest data from IEA (International Energy Agency).

Oil production, total
Oil production, per person

The indicator formerly known as “war mortality” as changed name to “Battle deaths (per 100.000).” The new name better reflects the definition of the indicator.

Indicator “Trade balance (current US$)” has been updated using the latest WDI data.

Graph:  http://is.gd/gPZqD

Also indicator “Trade balance (% of GDP)” has been updated with the latest WDI data.

Indicator “HDI” has bee updated by using the latest UNDP report data (http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/data/).

Graph: http://is.gd/gPX9l

We have uploaded an updated documentation for the total fertility rate. The new documentation includes all the revisions we have done since version 1 of the dataset.

The documenation is available at Gapminder documentation 008.

We have renamed some of the indicators under economy. We have also reduced the number of headings. Some indicators have been moved to “for advanced users”.
If you have problem finding any indicator please go to the data page:

www.gapminder.org/data

We removed the following two indicators:
-Consumer price index (2000=100)
-Capital formation (constant prices)

We updated aid-received, total, which were previously in current prices, with aid recieved, total, in fixed prices. We also renamed the indicator, it is now called: Aid received, total (US$, inflation-adjusted)

The following indicators have been added:
-Murder (total deaths)
-Suicide (total deaths)
-Traffic (total deaths)
-War mortality (per 100 000)
-Armed forces personnel, total
-Armed forces personnel (% of labor force)
-Total GDP (PPP $, inflation adjusted)

There was a typing error for Myanmar in income growth. The error is now corrected. Thanks to Tim Sullivan for pointing out the error.

We added a new indicator that measures the kilocalories available, on average, for each person per day. You find it under “economy” – “consumption”. However, it is a rather poor indicator of malnutrition in a country, since the distribution of food consumption varies.

http://tiny.cc/zxrxh

We have added some very interesting new indicators!
Under “Health” we have added traffic deaths per 100,000 persons, suicides per 100,000 persons, murders per 100,000 persons, deaths from burn injures per 100,000 persons, drownings per 100,000 persons, deaths from unintentional poisonings and deaths from fall injuries per 100,000 persons. Note that burns, drownings, poisonings and falls refer to unintentional (accidental) injuries, not murders or suicides.

In addition we added – under Health – alcohol consumption per person; and – under Technology and infrastructure – number of cars, trucks and buses per 100,000 persons.

We have revised income per person, with projections. Upto 2009 we use the ordinary “income per person” (Version 9). After 2009 we use IMF projections from the World Economic Outlook database. Visualise the indicator: http://tiny.cc/5ohym

Long-term series has been added, and newer, revised sources has replaced the previous one. The sources used are, in order of priority: (1) Himan mortality database; (2) CME info; (3) estimates based on infant mortality. See the documentation for more info:

www.gapminder.org/data/documentation/gd005/

We have made several, mostly minor, revisions for the indicator “Children per woman (total fertility rate”). We have also deleted several observations before 1950 that were unrealistically high. See more at the documentation page

1. Maternal mortality ratio per 100 000 live births
   (category “Births and deaths”, subcategory “Deaths”)
   – data from WHO.
2. Maternal deaths, total number
   (category “Births and deaths”, subcategory “Deaths”)
   – data from WHO.
3. Number of births, both sexes combined
   (category “Births and deaths”, subcategory “Births”)
   – data from UN Population Division.

Data for 2007 and 2008 has been added, with data from CME info. Several observations for years before 2007 have also been replaced with data from CME info.

Read more in the documentation: www.gapminder.org/data/documentation/gd002/

Due to data quality problem, the following indicators have been removed from Gapminder World:
– Aviation (million kilometres flown)
– Aviation (million passenger-kilometres)
– Aviation (million ton-kilometres)
– Aviation (thousands of passengers carried)

Their original place was in “Technology and infrastructure”.

The new name is “GDP per capita (PPP) from PWT”. This has been done to clarify that the data is adjusted for purchasing power parities (rather than being based on exchange-rates). The tool tip has also been changed to clarify this.

The following indicators have been updated by using the latest World Bank WDI data. Extremely high and low values have been “disabled” in the graph, just in order to show the overall pattern of the world development.

1. Level 1 [Economy] Military expenditure (% of GDP) graph

2. Level 1 [Economy] Gross capital formation (% of GDP) graph

3. Level 1 [Births and deaths] Population growth (annual %) graph

4. Level 1 [Population] Level 2 [Urbanization] Urban population growth (annual %) graph

In the following indicators, 2008 United States data was missing for 2008 due to availability problem, and therefore a 3-year average has been applied (from 2005 to 2007) as the 2008 data, because these 3 indicators have been quite stable during the last several years.

1. Agriculture, contribution to economy (% of GDP)
2. Industry, contribution to economy (% of GDP)
3. Service, contribution to economy (% of GDP)

The following indicators in Gapminder World have been updated from the new data provided by the World Bank:
*Agricultural land (% of land area)
*Agriculture, contribution to economy (% of GDP)
*Arms exports (constant 1990 US$)
*Arms imports (constant 1990 US$)
*Births attended by skilled health staff (% of total)
*Broadband subscribers
*Broadband subscribers (per 100 people)
*CO2 intensity of economic output (kg CO2 per 2005 PPP $ of GDP)
*Contraceptive use (% of women ages 15-49)
*Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)
*External debt, total (% of GNI)
*External debt, total (DOD, current US$)
*Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP)
*Foreign direct investment, net outflows (% of GDP)
*Forest area (sq. km)
*High-technology exports (% of manufactured exports)
*Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)
*Imports unit value (index, 2000=100)
*Income growth (per person growth in GDP, %)
*Industry, contribution to economy (% of GDP)
*Inflation, GDP deflator (annual %)
*Malnutrition, weight for age (% of children under 5)
*Market value of listed companies (% of GDP)
*Merchandise trade (% of GDP)
*Population in urban agglomerations > 1 million (% of total population)
*Roads, paved (% of total roads)
*Services, contribution to economy (% of GDP)
*Surface area (sq. km)
*Tax revenue (% of GDP)
*Total reserves (% of external debt)
*Urban population
*Urban population (% of total)

Here we will post short notices of all updates, revisions and additions we make to the data. Notices of earlier (major) data updates are still available at:
www.gapminder.org/news/

There are large differences across the world in the age at the first marriage for girls. Some regions have experienced a dramatic increase. This can be seen in the new dataset compiled by Gapminder.

Compare the “age at first marriage (girls)” with “children per woman” in Gapminder World (new window).

Continue reading “New data: Dramatic increase in girls’ age of marriage”