Gapminder Foundation

Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture registered in Stockholm, Sweden, that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic, and environmental development at local, national, and global levels.

[2] The name Gapminder was derived from the "Mind the Gap" warning messages on the London Underground.

[3] The Foundation initially developed the Trendalyzer software, which produced the now famous animated bubble graph.

[4] The current version of Trendalyzer is Gapminder Tools,[5] a web-service displaying time series of development statistics for all countries and many sub-national regions.

"[1] The object of the Foundation is to promote sustainable global development and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Goals by increasing the use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic, and environmental development at local, national, and global levels.