gapminder

Gapminder population, life expectancy and fertility

Combines key demographic indicators (life expectancy at birth, population, and fertility rate measured as babies per woman) for various countries from 1955 to 2005 at 5-year intervals. Includes a 'cluster' column, a categorical variable grouping countries. Gapminder's data documentation notes that its philosophy is to fill data gaps with estimates and use current geographic boundaries for historical data. Gapminder states that it aims to "show people the big picture" rather than support detailed numeric analysis.

Notes:

  1. Country Selection: The set of countries matches the version of this dataset originally added to this collection in 2015. The specific criteria for country selection in that version are not known. Data for Aruba are no longer available in the new version. Hong Kong has been revised to Hong Kong, China in the new version.

  2. Data Precision: The precision of float values may have changed from the original version. These changes reflect the most recent source data used for each indicator.

  3. Regional Groupings: To preserve continuity with previous versions of this dataset, we have retained the column name 'cluster' instead of renaming it to 'six_regions'.

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Fields

FieldTypeDistributionSummaryMissing
year

Years from 1955 to 2005 at 5-year intervals

 integer 1,955 – 2,005 · mean 1,980 Missing 0
country

Name of the country

 string 62 distinct Afghanistan 11 · Argentina 11 · Australia 11 Missing 0
cluster

A categorical variable grouping countries by region

Values: 0 (south_asia), 1 (europe_central_asia), 2 (sub_saharan_africa), 3 (america), 4 (east_asia_pacific), 5 (middle_east_north_africa)

 integer 0 – 5 · mean 2.47 Missing 0
pop

Population of the country

 integer 82,660 – 1,305,000,000 · mean 57,620,000 Missing 0
life_expect

Life expectancy in years

 number 27.79 – 82.5 · mean 66.98 Missing 0
fertility

Fertility rate (average number of children per woman

 number 0.96 – 8.23 · mean 3.72 Missing 0

Profiled across all 682 rows.

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In Motion

Life expectancy against babies per woman for 62 countries, 1955 to 2005. Gapminder publishes a snapshot every five years; the bubbles glide between them using the easing functions new in Vega 6.4. Vega-Lite's own support for eased, interpolated animation is in review.

China is highlighted with its full path. Select any bubble to follow that country instead.

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Preview

First 5 of 682 rows5 of 682 rows
yearcountryclusterpoplife_expectfertility
1955Afghanistan0797193143.887.42
1960Afghanistan0862246645.037.38
1965Afghanistan0956514746.137.35
1970Afghanistan01075297147.087.4
1975Afghanistan01215738647.557.54

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Examples

Vega and Vega-Lite examples open in the Editor with this dataset loaded. Altair examples link to their Python source.

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