All that being said, unfortunately the damn site copy rights all their charts, no matter how magnificent they may be. Alas, I can't use them here and share their splendor and glory with all of you.
But I did happen upon Index Mundi, which essentially is the same thing as Nationmaster, but;
1. It doesn't copyright the charts, thereby allowing for the advancement of economic knowledge
2. It also DOESN'T provide the correlation coefficients and other statistical measures that Nationmaster does. Thus me and Liberal Guy, and Derek cannot debate whether they are statistically significant or not.
3. It has merely a fraction of variables that Nationmaster has.
Regardless, it does make for some pretty cool charts like Fertility Rates versus GDP per capita;

Or Fertility Rates versus Literacy Rates

Regardless, now you too can be cool like real life economists and toy around with the charting function yourself come some Saturday evening when you can't find a date.
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Yours are certainly more plausible, but I like mine better.
How's life under the new socialist prez?
Found a site on Chile's economic with some good stats. I'll have to reference it later.
http://www.foreigninvestment.cl/index/plantilla4.asp?id_seccion=30&id_subsecciones2=3
That's the site.
That being said, I could certainly see with the election of Evo Moronis and Hugo nationalizing everything that Chile might benefit from the capital flight from those nations, despite the socialist administration.
I have four children. It looks reasonable to assume that if I kill all of them, me and my wife´s per capita income is going to be greater if they are young and studying. But perhaps as we grow older we will enter a difficult position, especially if all parents have followed the same per capita income enhancing "trick".
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