Thursday, August 23, 2018

Trade and Wars


If you liked the blog on how your country performed and like doing extra homework :), check out the following topics.

1) Battle-related deaths 

When Somalia, India, Pakistan, US and UK are selected.
- Include Afghanistan and  see the Y-axis scale
- Add Syria and now watch
- And, for a comprehensive data (not visual) list on this topic, here is the wiki
- And, a good empirical perspective with infographics.

2) Trade

Check out the Trade to GDP ratio of various countries. This is a measure of how open a country is to international trade, and is also called the trade-openness ratio.

If you are surprised by the graph and want to dig more, here is the link to the graph from the Google Public Data Explorer using the Human Development Indicator dataset.




No comments:

Post a Comment