Tools · The globe

Watch the world light up

Press play and watch 125 years of the biggest changes in human life roll across the planet, country by country, from 1900 to today. Red is where the world started; green is where it’s going. A light comes on when a country crosses a milestone. Spin the globe, tap a country, and pick from the measures Hans Rosling cared about most.

Inspired by Hans Rosling’s Gapminder, whose open data powers most of this globe. Coming next: falling violence and old ideas fading, once we have country data going back far enough to be honest about. More to play with: The Loading Bar, Guess first and all tools. Map shapes: Natural Earth, via world-atlas.