Gapminder World Offline

Gapminder World Offline provides you with a vast range of statistics from around the world. The software can tell you the number of births, deaths, natural disasters, pollution levels and much more. What's more, it neatly illustrates this information, so you can figure out where the numbers are the highest or lowest and it sorts everything by country. The best part is that all the information can be accessed offline, from the comforts of your desktop.

The software is free, but you can make a donation if you wish. It comes in a small package and it can be installed quickly, without any effort. An installation of Adobe Flash for Firefox is required if you wish to run this application. The hardware requirements are modest, so you can run it even on older machines.

Statistics are presented as bubbles on a graph the moment you launch the application. You can hover over each bubble to find out which country it refers to or you can tick one or more countries on the right side of the interface to highlight its corresponding bubble. Additionally, a slider can be dragged backwards and forwards, in the lower region of the interface, to display the same statistics along the years.

Besides viewing the information in a graph, you can switch to a map view as well. All bubbles will be placed over their corresponding countries automatically, which makes it much easier to visualize the information. The same country filters are available on the left side of the window in the map view mode as well.

You can select a different set of statistics in a system of menus and sub-menus, on the left side of the user interface. All statistics are neatly organized in various categories, like economy, energy, health, infrastructure, work and many others.

Any statistics you need about the world can be at your fingertips, thanks to Gapminder World Offline.