The Gapminder animated graph is fantatstic teaching and learning tool for upper school Human Geography students. It's interactive and students can use it to show changes in a huge number of variables across varied timescales. Countries are represented as bubbles, colour coded by continent and diametrically proportioaten to total population.
The website includes tutorials, teaching resources and a series of videos in which the incredibly entertaining Hans Rosling narrates the animated statistics. Wonderful stuff.
Hans Rosling demonstrates the tool in this video from TED:
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