stats stuff

[Hugh McGuire]

collected from various sources, lets you fiddle with them:

http://www.nationmaster.com/

[Tracey P. Lauriault-2]

Nice find hugh!

They tend to use stats from quite mainstream sources.  These are very
respectable organizations, however they are not the only world view.

I sent them to look at:

The World Guide: An alternative reference to the countries of our planet
by the New Internationalist (http://www.newint.org/shop/nz/wg0506.htm).  
I hope they follow-up on them!  As i think it would be a good complement
to what they have.

It would also be great to have that guide in a more useable format
somewhere!

Cheers
t


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[Russell McOrmond-2]

While not statistics, a tool I find very interesting for visualization
is worldmapper.org

   For instance, if you want to understand what the so-called "Copyright
Debate" is really about, you only need to look at:

http://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=168

"Over half (53%) of the value of all royalty and license fees paid in
2002 were received in one territory: the United States. Large
proportions of these fees were also received in Japan and the United
Kingdom."


   Similar streatchings of the map exist for other statistics.

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