Posted by phillip Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:48:00 GMT
every couple of years, the UN try to assess how “developed” all earth’s countries are. the result is the human development index. the factors going into it are income per capita, life expectancy and literacy. this is the result:
green => high, red => low, dark colors are the extremes.
gapminder has some excellent interactive visualizations of this data, like this one (static image, click to be taken there):
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