Tuesday Map: DIY development stats

Posted By Carolyn O'Hara Tuesday, January 30, 2007 - 12:40 PM Share

This very slick interactive chart and map can display correlations between everything from life expectancy and income per capita to contraceptive use, carbon dioxide emissions, military budgets, and the percentage of Internet users in countries around the world. You can use it to build your own comparisons. The map is the work of Gapminder, a Stockholm non-profit that, oddly enough, develops software to allow people to better visualize human development statistics.

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