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OT: Statistics about China?!?

DaXia   July 28th, 2011 4:02p.m.

Hi! This is very off topic, but I didn't know where else to ask.
Is there anyone who knows a site that has different data and statistics about China, and (very important) where you also can see the changes in this data the last like 10-20 years or something.

Like how the average salary has grown, or the how the pollution has changed during the years etc etc.

Anyone?

Elwin   July 28th, 2011 4:37p.m.

statistics on decades of pollution in China? I wouldn't trust them, they must be provided by the government so they're pretty useless.

As for salary development I've seen some but I'm on my phone right now. Google should have some results on this as well.

Randy   July 28th, 2011 8:56p.m.

There's a good journal (though I think it has ceased publication in the last year or so) called "China, Population, Resources and Environment." It has a lot of interesting articles on socioeconomics. It is published by Elsevier, so individual articles are expensive. It is best to find it in a university library. Another journal is available online. It is "Ecological Economy," published by Sichuan University. I'm not sure how to navigate to a general page for it, but I found an issue at this link (http://www.cqvip.com/qk/88265X/201002/), and you can click on different issues from here.

rgwatwormhill   July 29th, 2011 3:45a.m.

Hi,
depends what you want it for.
If you need hard facts to use, this is probably no good at all, but if you want illustrative trends , you might want to have a look at www.gapminder.org .
It's a statistics site with great graphics and you can customize the graphs to show particular countries. I just had a look at a comparison of CO2 emissions per head of population for US, China and UK over the last 200 years.
Rachael.

PS it is free

PPS it has links to all the sites it got its data from, which might be what you need

DaXia   July 29th, 2011 5:01a.m.

Great!! Thanks for the help guys!

FatDragon   July 29th, 2011 10:06a.m.

I doubt it would be available in China, if you're there (I'm not for the summer), but the CIA World Factbook seems like a good place to look. A brief viewing on my part didn't turn up much in the way of historical demographics, but maybe if you dig around a bit...

jmarshall   July 30th, 2011 12:26p.m.

See what's free here: http://www.eiu.com/public/
and there's some historical data here:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=china

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