The World Bank's Data Finder allows you to compare 17 key statistics, such as life expectancy and CO2 emissions, country-by-country and year-by-year on an interactive world map. While a few countries have not provided data, and no statistics are available prior to 1960, it is nevertheless remarkable that so much data can be accessed so easily.
Statistics that you can look up in the Data Finder include:
- Energy use
- Population
- CO2 emissions
- Internet users
- GDP (in US$)
- GDP growth
- GNI (Gross National Income)
- Inflation
- Life expectancy at birth
- Fertility rate (births per woman)
- Military expenditure (as a % of GDP)
- Imports of goods and services, and
- Mortality rate (deaths under 5 per 1000)
Google has recently teamed up with the World Bank to offer you the opportunity to make graphs of Data Finder statistics. See this post from Google's own blog to learn how it is done!
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