gapminder.org
Gapminder
Who runs Gapminder, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest data literacy education alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Our World in Data
Measured from Gapminder’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Gapminder01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Gapminder
Gapminder gapminder.org
Wikidata: Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker (1948–2017)
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Gapminder tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
5 of the 19 alternatives below have fewer, 7 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 5 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
Privacy-friendly analytics
Counts visits without cookies or personal profiles.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Gapminder
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Gapminder, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Very close - 02
Worldometer - real time world statistics
Live world statistics on population, government and economics, society and media, environment, food, water, energy and health. Interesting statistics with world population clock, forest loss this year, carbon dioxide co2 emission, world hunger data, energy consumed, and a lot more
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Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database
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Privacy Guides
Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.
Very close - 05
Free K–12 Curriculum for Digital Fluency | CodeAI
Bring computer science and AI education to your classroom with CodeAI’s free K–12 curriculum, hands-on projects, and teacher professional development—no prior experience needed.
Very close - 06
UNESCO : Building Peace through Education, Science and Culture, communication and information
Learn more about UNESCO's role, vision and results. UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Our aim is to promote peace and security through international cooperation
Very close - 07
DataCite – Connecting Research, Advancing Knowledge - DataCite
international not-for-profit organization which aims to improve data citation
Very close - 08
Home - BRAC Bangladesh
BRAC is a global development organisation from Bangladesh, reaching 145M+ people to fight poverty, support education, health and social equality.
Very close - 09
MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
Very close - 10
Checking if you are not a bot
Biodiversity Citizen Science & Monitoring
Very close - 11
Avaaz - The World in Action
Avaaz is the campaigning community bringing people-powered politics to decision making worldwide.
Very close - 12
WWF - Find your local WWF office
WWF is building a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. Use our hub page to find your local WWF office.
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace
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World Health Organization (WHO)
The United Nations agency working to promote health, keep the world safe and serve the vulnerable
Very close - 15
EBA
Türkiye'nin en büyük dijital eğitim platformu
Very close - 16
OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
Very close - 17 SCORE Association score.org
American nonprofit (1964-)
Very close - 18
Wikimedia
The Wikimedia movement is a global community of people, projects, and activities working together to create and share knowledge freely.
Very close - 19
Making sure you're not a bot!
French research institution in computer science
Very close - 20
Full Fact
Not sure what to believe? Full Fact checks the claims you see online and in the news, helping you spot misinformation and get the facts that matter.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Gapminder’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Gapminder uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Gapminder adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 15 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 119 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Gapminder’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress meta generator: WordPress 6.7.10
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://www.gapminder.org/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.7.1
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Rubik:wght@300;400;500;700&display=swap
- Analytics
- Cloudflare Web Analytics asset https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vce701823e78c4301a35b7e07294d87301792…
- Google Analytics page source: googletagmanager.com/gtag/js
- Payments
- Stripe page source: js.stripe.com/
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577a8e28cce6313-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (meta generator: WordPress 6.7.10)
- Video
- Vimeo page source: player.vimeo.com/video
- YouTube embeds page source: youtube.com/embed/
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms57007836
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 mx include:cmail1.com include:aspmx.googlemail.com include:spf…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS nelly.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=K8nBIB6Mo5PYN-LBJIeJPZpKsVI_KlmDMF2Iu2Vq5ig
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 11/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on gapminder.org 8/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 7/20
- Mailchimp · not on gapminder.org 5/20
- Google Analytics 5/20
- jQuery 5/20
- Atlassian · not on gapminder.org 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on gapminder.org 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on gapminder.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on gapminder.org 4/20
- nginx · not on gapminder.org 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on gapminder.org 3/20
- Salesforce · not on gapminder.org 3/20