Monday, January 16, 2006

Index Mundi

Hands down my favorite web site is Nationmaster.com. The web site is arguably the largest and most comprehensive collection of economic and demographic information about all the countries in the world. You combine that with their charting and graphing functions and only the Legendary Redheaded, Lingerie Wearing, Video Game Playing Babe Economist Who Likes to Serve Irishmen Martini's that the Elder Economist of Yore spoke of could detract me for a Saturday evening.

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;

Which proves children are evil.

Or Fertility Rates versus Literacy Rates

Which proves children bring about stupidity.

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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3 comments:

  1. Captain Capitalism5:28 PM

    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.

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  2. Captain Capitalism8:58 PM

    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.

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  3. Grumero4:50 AM

    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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