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A further update regarding NationMaster's plugin: considering the positive responses we've received for our plug-in, we have decided to make this download available on our site. This Plug-in is located on your browser, and gives you quick access to statistical measurements on NationMaster. For example, you might be clicking around your trusted news website and come across an article on murders per capita in sub-Saharan Africa. To supplement news, you might want to take a look at some recent statistics. Simply type in 'murders per capita' in your NationMaster toolbar and you're on your way - statistical comparisons at your fingertips no matter where you're surfing. Downloading the NationMaster Plug-in takes only a few brief moments. Click here to install the NationMaster Plug-in.

Teachers: looking for online tests which will improve your students' geography skills? Try NationMaster's new GeoLab, designed by Professor Steven M. Graves of California State University. Using this GeoLab, students follow directions for navigating NationMaster's site, viewing specific graphs, maps, scatterplots and correlations and answering questions about the data. All major areas of our statistical database are covered. At the end of the lab, students will be able to formulate their own correlation hypothesis, outlining a strong or weak correlation between two statistical variables and testing that hypothesis using Nationmaster's correlation technology. Students can then submit his/her GeoLab results directly to their teachers e-mail address. We hope to add more GeoLabs in the future, so check back in with us regularly! Click here to see NationMaster's new GeoLab!