Global Culture

I found a perfect way to convey some of the recent arguments about distribution of income: Gapminder produced a presentation on Human Development Trends in the form of several animated visualizations, including:

• World income distribution
• Regional income distribution
• The distribution of poverty
• Regional differences in health and income
• Income and health of countries
• Same income, different health
• Development directions
• Differences within countries
• Child deaths

Once you’re done going through the presentation, you may want to spend some additional time playing with the data with the interactive tool.

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