Posts about the Pacific

Accessing data and drawing visualisations of net migration for Pacific island countries and territories.

Accessing population data for the Pacific and drawing two visual summaries of its recent and projected growth and absolute size, as used recently in a side event before the Pacific Heads of Planning and Statistics meeting in Wellington.

I draw a map of the Pacific showing the key locations associated with the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan in 1937.

Motivated by an excellent recent book, I explore Papua New Guinea's statistics for GDP, population, employment and vaccination rates.

How to produce an animation of demographic patterns in Pacific island countries and territories from 1950 to 2050, in just a few lines of code.

I have a quick look at the latest World Economic Outlook released by the IMF, with a particular eye on the economic growth forecasts for Pacific island countries. The Pacific countries that have had the biggest revision downwards in their growth prospects over the six months since the last Outlook are the three in the Compact of Free Association with USA (Palau, Marshall Islands, and Federated States of Micronesia), plus Fiji.

I write a function to simulate Ponzi schemes with various types of 'investor' growth, withdrawal rates, and extraction by the scammer / owner of the scheme.

I polish up some visualisations of demographic trends in the Pacific.

I have a mostly successful go at cohort component population projections to replicate the UN's totals from their published parts, with an idea to making small changes to observations or assumptions that can build on the official projections.

I compare the GDP per capita and scores on the UN Multidimensional Vulnerability Index (MVI) of the 68 economies in the 'V20' group with other countries that aren't part of the V20.

I make some visualisations of the country scores of the UN's proposed Multidimensional Vulnerability Index

I demonstrate the function I use to make it simpler to draw choropleth maps based on Pacific Island countries' and territories' exclusive economic zones.

I compare vaccination rates in the Pacific to GDP per capita and find the evidence isn't strong enough to say that there is a relationship between the two.

I have a go at showing the proportion of members of Parliament that are women on a map of the world, as an experiment in a tricky data visualisation

Drawing an annotated choropleth map of Pacific Island countries and territories.

I show how to access data from the Pacific Data Hub to draw population pyramids of Pacific Island countries and territories.