Google Plots Fertility Rate

If you cannot see the graph click here or here.

Google recently added the World Bank’s World Development Indicators to their existing US unemployment and US population data sets. The World Development Indicators consist of 17 data sets that Google plots as an interactive graph using their public data search. The graphs can be linked or embedded on a web page as I have done above. Note that in some data sets, a few countries do not have data, for example Andorran GDP growth rate.

In my graph I included the countries with the highest fertility rate (Niger, 7.0) and the lowest fertility rate (Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1.2). I show the U.S. at exactly the 2.1 replacement rate. The World fertility rate has dropped to 2.5.

Links to Data Sets

I found that I could not easily access the public data sets. I had to display them using the right words in a search. Once I discovered the URLs I could save the links and go directly to the graphs. The links are listed below that have the World Development Indicators made available through Google’s public statistical data search. Clicking a link will bring up a blank chart, allowing you to select one or more country’s data to display. I have included the U.S. population and unemployment public data sets for completeness.

• CO2 emissions per capita
• Electricity consumption per capita
• Energy use per capita
• Exports as percentage of GDP
• Fertility rate
• GDP deflator change
• GDP growth rate
• GNI per capita in PPP dollars
• Gross Domestic Product
• Gross National Income in PPP dollars
• Imports as percentage of GDP
• Internet users as percentage of population
• Life expectancy
• Military expenditure as percentage of GDP
• Mortality rate, under 5
• Population
• Population growth rate
• US population
• US unemployment

External Articles

This list is updated occasionally, with newer additions listed first.

• The challenges and opportunities that come with population growth and seven billion people
• Population bomb bogus — The global economy is doing a fine job of alleviating poverty.

Updates

Google now has a Public Data Explorer with a lot more data sets available. Andorra now has a GDP growth rate.