Tips & Tricks for Google Apps: World Bank Data in Google Search
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Google first began integrating data from sources like the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Division in April of this year. Their point is to “to make statistics easier to find and to encourage debate based on facts rather than intuition.”
Continuing in that direction, Google has included 17 World Development Indicators from the World Bank within their search results. Some examples -
To see the new data, try queries like [gdp of indonesia], [life expectancy brazil], [rwanda's population growth], [energy use of iceland], [co2 emissions of iceland] and [gdp growth rate argentina].
Clicking on any of the results will display an interactive graph, for example -
To see a complete list of the include World Development Indicators, check out the Official Google Blog for more details.
