What percentage of males aged 15 to 64 are employed in countries across the world? What regions have the highest levels of employment? Is it to do with wealth or tradition? How about if weContinue reading

Which country in the world is the highest emitter of C02 per person and how has this changed over time? As ever, there is only one way to find out and you might just beContinue reading

Is there a relationship between the wealth of a country and it’s growth rate? Do rich counties keep getting richer, or do poorer countries grow faster as they have more capacity and potential? And whatContinue reading

What is the relationship between a country’s wealth and their children’s maths scores? Which country’s children perform best at maths? And finally, can we use this data to make a case that boys are betterContinue reading

Is there a link between how wealthy a country is and the average Body Mass Index of its population? Is there a link between the wealth of a country and the quality of its population’sContinue reading

Here we look at the relationship between the age women are getting married and their fertility rate, and we observe some startling results. Once again three countries are chosen for our focus: China, the UKContinue reading

A look at how the world has developed over the last two hundred years by focusing on the relationship between a country’s life expectancy and the average income of the country’s inhabitants. For the analysisContinue reading

An introduction which takes you through how to access the Gapminder World website and how to use some of the basic tools, such as how to select different variables, highlight specific countries, and track changesContinue reading