Looking for world population statistics program

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I used to have a program from Gravitybox call Worldview. It's disappeared
from their home page and it looks like the only versions available from
neverexpires.com etc are quite old (5 or so years).

Could anyone please recommend a similar program that is currently available,
or at least more up-to-date? I'll go with Worldview if I have no other
choice, but would like to check out other options first. BTW, I did do a
Google search on alt.comp.freeware, but couldn't find anything besides
Worldview.

TIA
 
I used to have a program from Gravitybox call Worldview. It's disappeared
from their home page and it looks like the only versions available from
neverexpires.com etc are quite old (5 or so years).

Could anyone please recommend a similar program that is currently available,
or at least more up-to-date? *snip*
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why not just use the CIA world factbook?
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
 
On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:19:14 +0200 (CEST), futureworlds wrote:


You can download the CIA book as a Zip file at
http://www.cia.gov/cia/download.html
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Thank-you very much. I will be doing higher statistical level research, but while I was waiting
to see if any software was available I used the CIA site to put together a little comparison
chart. It shows which countries are winning the most Olympic medals relative to their
population. And guess what? My little country of Australia is whipping the backside of almost
every country in the world. If you're curious about how your country is going, have a look at
http://www.comcen.com.au/~scottford/userfiles/Olympics.htm
 
Because they record IP addresses?
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what's your paranoid delusion about now, chrissie? do you have massive
amounts of kiddieporn on your hard drive which they may find when they
raid your house because they think that you're a terrorist since you
wanted to know the population of moscow or some shit?

be a brave little girl and just download it in that case. this is only
one visit to their oh-so HoRrIbLe site that brings you copious amounts
of dread and gray nosehairs and they can't watch what countries your
IP is investigating in their SECRET factbook. (duh.)
 
Because they record IP addresses?
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OMG - You sound as paranoid as a very sad case I heard about in one of my earlier jobs with a
water & sewerage utility.

The wastewater team got called out to a job after police found an elderly lady dead in her
house. Apparently she had suffered from dementia, and believed that the Gestapo were after her
as she had been in the French resistance during World War 2.

It apeared that she thought she was being spied on through her water & sewerage pipes. So, in
order to prevent them from listening to her she flushed empty cans of soft-drink down her toilet
thinking that the rattle would stop them from spying on her. Instead of using her toilet to do
her business she did it in the bathtub on a newspaper & then just piled it on top of the others.

When she was found, the pile was halfway up the walls (so she must have been doing it for a long
time). The crew walked in, saw the situation & walked back out, informing the Police that is
was a public health matter to be passed on to the local council.

Just in case though, maybe you should bury all of your CD's underneath the house & destroy your
hard drives. You never know - they really could be watching you. Maybe I'm an agent & right
now am following up your post via the secret codes that even anonymous posts contain to help
trace the sender!! After all, do you really think the CIA would allow news-service providers to
post messages when they could not be traced back to the original poster?
 
Thank-you very much. I will be doing higher statistical level
research, but while I was waiting to see if any software was
available I used the CIA site to put together a little comparison
chart. It shows which countries are winning the most Olympic
medals relative to their population. And guess what? My little
country of Australia is whipping the backside of almost every
country in the world. If you're curious about how your country is
going, have a look at
http://www.comcen.com.au/~scottford/userfiles/Olympics.htm
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Reminds me of a joke-

Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Heaven, God went missing for six
days.
Eventually, Michael the Arch-Angel found him on the seventh day,
resting.
He inquired of God, "Where have you been?"
God sighed a deep sigh of satisfaction and proudly pointed downwards
through the clouds "Look Michael, look what I've made." said God.
Archangel Michael looked puzzled and said, "What is it?"
"It's a planet," replied God, "and I've put LIFE on it. I'm going to
call it Earth and it's going to be a great place of balance."
Balance?" inquired Michael, still confused.
God explained, pointing to different parts of Earth.
"For example, North America will be a place of great opportunity and
wealth while South America is going to be poor; the Middle East over
there will be a hot spot and Russia will be a cold spot.
Over there I've placed a continent of white people and over there is
a continent of black people,"
God continued, pointing to different countries. This one will be
extremely hot and arid while this one will be very cold and covered
in ice."
The Archangel, impressed by God's work, then pointed to a small land
mass and said "What's that one?"
Ah ," said God. "That's New Zealand, the most glorious place on
Earth. There are beautiful lakes, rivers, streams and hills.
The people from New Zealand are going to be modest, intelligent and
humorous and they're going to be found travelling the world.
They'll be extremely sociable, hard-working and high-achieving, and
they will be known throughout the world as diplomats and carriers of
peace."
Michael gasped in wonder and admiration but then proclaimed, "What
about balance, God? you said there will be BALANCE!"
God replied wisely, "Wait until you see the wankers I'm putting next
to them. I call them Australians!!!" ;o)
 
: In article <[email protected]>
: SNIP
: > why not just use the CIA world factbook?
: > http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
: >
: > --
: > "Every action is a positive action, even if it has a negative result."
: >
: > -Richard Linklater's "Slacker" (1991)
:
: Thanks - very informative. I've bookmarked it, but I still am interested if
there is there is a
: downloadable freeware program that will allow me to do my research when
offline.
:
:
This is an ONLINE, web utility that I think you'll find very useful:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_eco_imp&int=20

Bill
 
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