BBC4 publishes Hans Rosling’s presentation of 200 countries – 200 years in a fascinating new way. ‘ …a roller coaster ride through the wonderful world of statistics to explore the remarkable power stats have to change our understanding of the world we live in.’
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His presentations are always interesting, he knows how to explain everything in simply way.
200 years is long time, in the past many countries did not exist or had different territory, but still it is interesting to how it was in the past
I placed Corruption Perceptions Index with GDP per capita on the chart but I was too lazy to do this for more years, so the CPI is just for 2010 http://russiansphinx.blogspot.com/2010/11/corruption-perceptions-index-2010.html
The full programme “Joy of Stats” (60min) is currently available on YouTube via the gapminder.org site:
http://www.gapminder.org/videos/the-joy-of-stats/
Also available is the Swedish documentary about Rosling himself (with english subtitles)