No 136: Friend of this blog 1

NICK from Geognos website (see Post 65) has just contacted us about some very useful new information he has put on his site.

If you go to http://www.geognos.com/geo/en/countries-list-menu/Economy.html


you will see this page:

There is a good relevant selection of information here, especially with relation to the Credit Crunch.

For instance, here is the first data visualisation, about government revenue and spending:

(I've only made a screen shot of the top ten.)

This is the 4th data set, about different countries' GDP and how much comes from agriculture, industry and services. As you can see, it is currently organised alphabetically.

Clicking on the relevant column arrow reorders this to show, for instance, those countries who have the largest part of GDP from industry:

Don't be fooled by this - it ISN'T saying that, for example, Iraq has a lot of manufacturing industry, just that in comparison to agriculture and services, by far the largest area of the country's output in from industry. It's probably 62.8% of not very much!

If I could be allowed one slight criticism, it would be good to know the sources of the data Nick has used.

Nevertheless, this is a very good resource. Play around with it yourselves and let me know if you find something interesting or surprising.