2. Click on http://www.gapminder.org/
Then Gapminder World and watch the Video
tutorial, it won’t take long.
Then back to Gapminder World and select
some of the Superpowers and Emerging
superpowers (it’s easiest to view if you choose
different coloured ones). Click Play and watch
the historical change in life expectancy and
GDP per capita.
When it has finished “Print screen” and paste
into “Paint”. Select the graph (making sure
you’ve included the axes labels so you know
what it is!) Copy into a new Word Document
headed “Measuring Development and the
Development Gap”
3. Cancel the selected countries (click on them
again)
Then pick some of the poorer and middle
income countries from the graph (move
your mouse around to identify countries)
and select some of them (click on the
circle), then press play again.
Do the same again, print screen, paste to
paint and copy into the word document.
You should now have two contrasting
graphs.
4. Go to the online atlas of the MDG
http://devdata.worldbank.org/atlas-mdg/
Click on eradicating poverty and hunger,
then poverty. Click to resize the map to
show the population living on $1.25 per day
(bottom right) Print screen it again and
insert the map into the word document.
Give it a heading and use text boxes to
describe the pattern.
Go back to the front page of the atlas and
click on Goal 2 (education), click on School
completion, print screen the map and
describe the pattern again.
5. Find out about the Gender Inequality Index at
http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/gii/ . Right
click on the graph to copy it into your word
document then use the draw tools to identify
what each of the components is about.
Copy and paste the graph showing the loss
due to gender inequality and then annotate it
to explain what it shows (using the What are
the main findings section)
Make a note of where is particularly good/bad
