Where are you on a global pay scale?

Where are you on a global pay scale? is an interactive website from BBC America that tells you where your income falls on a global scale. Gives students an interesting perspective. The formula for figuring out the numbers is explained.

American Demographic History Chartbook

American Demographic History Chartbook provides historical American demographic maps from 1790 through 2010. The site is broken down into chapters that include figures on: Age & Sex, Race & Hispanic, Households, Marital Status, School Attendance, Education, Place of Birth, and The Foreign-Born.

Middle East Protests: Country by Country

This is a neat interactive map of the Middle East from BBC News. When you click on a Middle Eastern country you are given information about the unrest and protests in that country.

Free Data from The World Bank

On April 20, The World Bank announced that it would provide free access to a large amount of development statistics. In an effort to make these statistics easier to find and use, The World Bank launched a new website at http://data.worldbank.org/

Gapminder World

Gapminder World is a non-profit project that is intended to promote sustainable global development by exposing the gap between data and available statistics. This website provides free access to global statistics.