Somalia's unnaturally steady infant mortality rate

[Shane]

Somalia's infant mortality rate from 1986 to 2009 is a perfect
horizontal line, 108.5 all the way across:
http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&ctype=l&strail=false&nselm=h&met_y=sp_dyn_imrt_in&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=country&idim=country:SOM&tstart=473385600000&tunit=Y&tlen=24&hl=en&dl=en

I presume this uncanny lack of change must indicate some flaw in
information-gathering? Is it simply the case that World Bank does not
have the necessary data for wartorn Somalia during this period?

Thanks,
Shane

[Benjamin Yolken]

Thanks for letting us know. This may be due to an import error on our
side; we'll look into this further.

Benjamin Yolken
Product Manager, Google Public Data Explorer

On Jun 14, 4:13 pm, Shane <shane.le...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Somalia's infant mortality rate from 1986 to 2009 is a perfect

> horizontal line, 108.5 all the way across:http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&ctype=l&strail=false&nselm...

[Shane]

Great, thanks for looking into it,

Shane

[Benjamin Yolken]

As it turns out, this is how the data are given in the original
dataset: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.IMRT.IN?cid=GPD_55.
So, there doesn't appear to be any problem on our side.

If you'd like to ask the World Bank for more information about this
particular case, please do so by following the provider link in the
lower left hand corner of the visualization.

Hope this helps,

Benjamin Yolken
Product Manager, Google Public Data Explorer

[Shane]

Cool, I might do so, thanks Benjamin,
Shane

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