# 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 14, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-countries-200-years-4-minutes/564057 "2010-12-14T00:14:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-countries-200-years-4-minutes/564057/21 "2010-12-14T07:03:51Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > I knew it was the Spanish Flu, I’ve read that it was devastating, but I never realized just how _bad_ it was. IIRC, the one-sentence summary is that it was a worse killer than all of WW1. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-countries-200-years-4-minutes/564057/22 "2010-12-14T07:08:24Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > [Gapminder.](http://www.gapminder.org/) > Looks like he does this for a lot of things. > > Never heard of it and now I can look forward to staying up late. Someone [posted the very graph seen in the video](http://www.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly=2003;lb=f;il=t;fs=11;al=30;stl=t;st=t;nsl=t;se=t$wst;tts=C$ts;sp=5.59290322580644;ti=2009$zpv;v=0$inc_x;mmid=XCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj1jiMAkmq1iMg;by=ind$inc_y;mmid=YCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj2tPLxKvvnNPA;by=ind$inc_s;uniValue=8.21;iid=phAwcNAVuyj0XOoBL%5Fn5tAQ;by=ind$inc_c;uniValue=255;gid=CATID0;by=grp$map_x;scale=log;dataMin=295;dataMax=79210$map_y;scale=lin;dataMin=19;dataMax=86$map_s;sma=49;smi=2.65$cd;bd=0$inds=;example=75) several months ago right here at SDMB. I promptly bookmarked it as “Amazing graph.” But I’ll bookmark this video too! ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-countries-200-years-4-minutes/564057/23 "2010-12-14T07:16:48Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > [Gapminder.](http://www.gapminder.org/) > Looks like he does this for a lot of things. > > Never heard of it and now I can look forward to staying up late. Yup, that’s it. Sorry for not elaborating more, **FoisGrasIsEvil**. I took a class on public health in developing countries, and my professor used gapminder in pretty much every lecture. It is a fantastic website and full of loads of information. My friends and I have spent some happy hours changing around the variables and seeing what new information appears. (Um, this was in policy school. Gapminder is like crack for policy wonks.) ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-countries-200-years-4-minutes/564057/24 "2010-12-14T07:27:43Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Cool, but I kept being distracted by the two Asian outliers that went crazy high crazy fast. Japan wasn’t one of them…what are they? From the Gapminder graph, looks like they’re Australia and New Zealand. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-countries-200-years-4-minutes/564057/25 "2010-12-14T08:26:20Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Someone [posted the very graph seen in the video](http://www.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly=2003;lb=f;il=t;fs=11;al=30;stl=t;st=t;nsl=t;se=t$wst;tts=C$ts;sp=5.59290322580644;ti=2009$zpv;v=0$inc_x;mmid=XCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj1jiMAkmq1iMg;by=ind$inc_y;mmid=YCOORDS;iid=phAwcNAVuyj2tPLxKvvnNPA;by=ind$inc_s;uniValue=8.21;iid=phAwcNAVuyj0XOoBL%5Fn5tAQ;by=ind$inc_c;uniValue=255;gid=CATID0;by=grp$map_x;scale=log;dataMin=295;dataMax=79210$map_y;scale=lin;dataMin=19;dataMax=86$map_s;sma=49;smi=2.65$cd;bd=0$inds=;example=75) several months ago right here at SDMB. > > I promptly bookmarked it as “Amazing graph.” But I’ll bookmark this video too! Either there’s something wrong with the graph, or every single person in Qatar won the lottery in '69 and managed to blow all the money by the end of the year. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-countries-200-years-4-minutes/564057/26 "2010-12-14T09:26:50Z")
> [@Ale](#): > > Either there’s something wrong with the graph, or every single person in Qatar won the lottery in '69 and managed to blow all the money by the end of the year. What I see is Qatar off the chart from 1969 to 1977. Is there a way to increase the x-axis range? Qatar’s very definition was affected by major political reorganization from 1968 to 1972. Perhaps this affected the reporting of its population or income statistic. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-countries-200-years-4-minutes/564057/27 "2010-12-14T10:00:20Z")
I see some countries in Asia and Africa are motionless until at least the mid to late nineteenth century, probably reflecting a lack of data. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/200-countries-200-years-4-minutes/564057.md?page=1)