Are you feeling geeky in an economicsy data-pornish kind of way?
Friend, you need to visit NationMaster.com the website where stats come alive!
It sounds dreadful but it is truly fascinating.
Did you know that:
* The best indicator of innovation and technological achievement is GDP per capita, edging out the number of R&D personnel and time in education.
* Corrupt countries tend to lack technology.
* Countries where young women work tend to have a lot of old women working as well.
* Secondary school enrollment is inversely proportionate to the proportion of population under 14. The plot shows no outliers.
* The best predictor of motor vehicles per capita is the country's wealth back in 1973. Newly rich countries don't buy cars quite as much?
* Gender development is the best predictor all up. Better than GDP per capita and population. It's much better than the most predictive measure of the difference between rich and poor.
You can look up just about statistic for any country, and it will give you some pretty good data, and also offers a bunch of correlations for each statistic that you would never dream of looking up.
Better go get myself a glass of water, I'm feeling all hot around the collar...
