200 countries over 200 years
My cousin shared this very cool presentation showing the evolution of our globe by geography and time – the life expectancy and wealth of 200 countries over the last 200 years. Fascinating.
And you can also play around with this platform across a plethora of indicators…
http://graphs.gapminder.org/communityproxy/ChartDataServlet?
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