free range statistics

A chart of petrol ('gasoline') prices in the USA and New Zealand since 2004 to now.

Code for an updateable chart of crude oil stocks for the USA as a whole; and a pointer to a new page I'm maintaining of up-to-date monitoring of the fuel crisis.

Code for an updateable chart of crude oil stocks at the importing Cushing facility in the USA.

I draw some charts of GDP per capita growth from 1900 to 2023, for various countries, using data from the excellent Maddison Project in economic history at the Groningen Growth and Development Centre.

UK has had a spurt of prime ministerial turnover in the past decade or so, but it's by no means unprecedented.

Seasonal adjustment is easy but getting hold of data can be hard.

Modern wars on average last longer than a year, but the distribution is very right-skewed.

Pacific island countries are heavily dependent on imported diesel, gas and kerosene for electricity generation and for cooking.

Pacific island populations are shaped by people movements, more than is the case for most countries in the world.

Pacific island countries have some of the highest dependencies in the world on remittance payments from overseas.