What is Development?
Development is the improvement of the human condition so that everyone has access to their basic needs including food, water, shelter, employment, security, human rights, and human dignity
UN Human Development Index (HDI)
Hans Rosling on Human Development
We're winning the war against child mortality
TED-Ed: 15min - 2010, but still relevant
Global Population Growth (and Development), box by box
TED-Ed 10min - 2010 but still relevant
The Magic Washing Machine (and Development)
TED 9min
Correlating Income and Life Expectancy throughout History
TGS.org 18min - 2015 but still relevant
Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
TED 20min - 2006 but still relevant
Hans Rosling's 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes BBC Four
DON'T PANIC — Hans Rosling showing the facts about population
Gapminder Foundation - 60min
2015 but still relevant
Gapminder Video Collection
Development Simulations, Visualizations and Interactives
Global Poverty
Poverty affects billions of people around the globe. On a daily basis, they face low wages and substandard health, education, and living standards.
Indicators of the Planet
ArcGIS Living Atlas Indicators of the Planet provides a single point for finding some of the most timely information covering a variety of environmental and social topics.
3rd World Farmer
An excellent simulation to introduce what life is like for subsistence farmers
Gapminder Bubble Charts
Make Your own! - Gapminder Foundation
The Demographic Transition Model
Interactive ArcGIS Story
5 Undeniable Long-Term Trends Shaping Society’s Future
(Visual Capitalist) Aging-Urbanization-Wealth-Inequality-Environment
Global Wealth Inequality
(4min)
World-Systems Theory, Dependency Theory and Global Inequality (Then&Now 14:22)
Why Some Countries Are Poor and Others Rich
(8:47)
Development Indicators
HDI: Human Development Index
OurWorldInData | UN Data
Life Expectancy, 2019
OurWorldInData
Literacy, 2015
OurWorldInData (Full Entry)
Literacy by Age Group
Our World in Data
Medical doctors per 1,000 people
OurWorldInData
Median Age, 2017
Wikipedia
World Hunger Map
UN World Food Programme Interactive Map
World Happiness Index 2021
(Visual Capitalist)
Electrification in Africa
(NASA EO)
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
How can we make the world a better place by 2030?
(TED: 14:39)
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
UNDP SDGs Action
Atlas of SDGs 2020 - Progress (World Bank)
Project 17: A series of 5min videos of 17-year-olds and each SDG
(BBC News World Service)
Three steps to achieving SDGs
(TEDx 12min)
The global goals we've made progress on—and the ones we haven't (TED 14min)
Development Issues
3rd World Farmer
An excellent simulation to introduce what life is like for subsistence farmers
Covid Performance Index (Lowy Institute)
Egypt's Dam Problem - Geopolitics of the Nile (Wendover 17:05)
Three Gorges Dam, China: Building the world's largest (and most controversial) power plant (TED-Ed 5:37)