Countries Web Portal
New IBGE portal compares economic and social statistics of 193 countries
February 26, 2019 10h00 AM | Last Updated: February 26, 2019 04h12 PM
The IBGE relaunches today (26) the Countries web portal, which gathers information about the 193 UN member countries. Besides basic information such as territory, currency and language, the platform presents data on social, economic, environmental, population, health and communication indicators.
In its new version of Countries, users can create thematic rankings and compare indicators rom different countries. By choosing, for example, the topic population, it is possible to rank countries by total population, by sex, population density, mortality rate, birth rate. Data are available in the form of tables and graphs that can be downloaded as spreadsheets.
It is also possible to compare the GDP of countries. The "economy" section presents "total GDP", and provides a list in which the United States of America, China and Japan, respectively, are the top three countries and Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu, the last three ones.
Comparing indicators between countries is another possibility. By selecting the topic "heath", for example, one can find information on the average daily calorie intake inn each country, for example, Austria, with 3,768 calories/day and Central African Republic, with 1720 calories/day, in 2016. In terms of "economy", one can also find out the number of tourist arrivals per year. That figure reached 6.5 million in Brazil and 5.5 million in Argentina, in 2016.
The website has a resource for the automatic recovery of data, which means information will be changed as it is updated in the original source. “Besides promoting a faster update of data, the resource helps increase reliability on the platform, since there is virtually no change in information taken from the original sources”, says Thiago Lima, a designer at the IBGE.
Information on the website comes from international agencies, such as the UN and the World Bank, and allow comparability between countries. The portal is available in three languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish.
