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The latest Unicef state of the world's children report is out, with a special focus on adolescents. So, how do the world's teenagers compare?* Get the data* Search the MDG data. Read more about the report Children are unambiguously the focus of the millennium development goals (MDGs). But what happens when they grow up?

StatPlanet is a browser-based interactive data visualization and mapping application. Use it to easily and rapidly create visualizations from simple Flash maps to advanced infographics. StatPlanet can be freely and easily hosted on your own website. It is lightweight, lightning fast, and makes exploring large data sets easy, fun and highly interactive.

Welcome to Breathing Earth. This real-time simulation displays the CO2 emissions of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates. Please remember that this is just a simulation. Although the CO2 emission, birth rate and death rate data used in Breathing Earth comes from reputable sources, data that measures things on such a massive scale can never be 100% accurate.

Looks at where the wealth is and how the rich are spending even more in "tough times"

Hans Rosling reframes 10 years of UN data with his spectacular visuals, lighting up an astonishing -- mostly unreported -- piece of front-page-worthy good news: We're winning the war against child mortality. Along the way, he debunks one flawed approach to stats that blots out such vital stories.

universal education (MDG 2), and gender equality and empowering women (MDG 3) - is vital to meeting all the others.