Human Development Trends

From a colleague in response to a discussion on bimodal income distributions in East Asia and South Asia (thanks Shankha), this is an interesting animation on world poverty, income distributions, and health:

Animation on Human Development Trends

If that doesn't work, go to Human Development Reports, then click on the link "HD in Animation" on the RHS column (under HDR2005).

There is all sorts of interesting information, and it's very well done.