Visualising human development worldwide

What are the most developed countries? What are the official measurement based upon? What trends, if any, can be highlighted?

Such crucial questions call for clear and sound answers, in order to better understand the world we live in. This visualisation is part of an academic project led by UCL postgraduates, targeted at GCSE students. In a broader perspective, the underlying assumption is that relevant, self-speaking and interactive visualisations provide students and teachers with a new educational experience.

The enclosed visualisation thrives on official UN data, available on http://data.un.org

Three particularly relevant items have been selected: the Human Development Index (HDI), life expectancy at birth and yearly GDP per inhabitant. Those sets of data have been cross-checked and allocated to more than 150 countries, spanning a time period from 1980 to 2007.

This visualisation vows to help young students anchor abstract data to political, economic and sanitary reality. Such awareness appears essential to those who will make the world of tomorrow.

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