Gapminder is a Swedish Foundation directed by Hans Rosling, a statistician who wishes to promote the use of statistical data in school teaching.
Among its most successful initiatives is the realization of a freely available application (Gapminder World), which can also be used online, designed for use in classes and allowing the display of statistical data. Gapminder World has a very clear interface that is well-suited for use by students.
It allows including various kinds of statistical parameters of world countries and see their evolution over time. For instance, you can examine the relationship between the evolution of the wealth of Nations and the CO2 emissions, or between infant mortality and per capita income. Or the evolution of the world's production of energy from renewable sources.
It is a very flexible and accessible basic tool to address (or even just introduce) topics concerning global development starting from numerical evidence. That's why Gapminder's motto is
"for a world view based on facts".
The Gapminder Foundation has won numerous international awards. The software and the team of people who have realized it were acquired by Google in 2007. Hans Rosling 2013 has been one of the key speakers at the Conference presentation of the
5th report of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change of the United Nations) in September 2013