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Something to do with economic measures.

Well, the quantity measured over time certainly has an economic aspect to it. But the vertical axis is not in units of any financial currency.

1961 was the year of my birth and up to certain points the track is similar to my height or weight, but not into the 1980s.

The part of the graph that takes a dive, does so sooner than I thought it would.

The number of suspected child abuses committed by employees of the BBC?

Lianachan wrote:The number of suspected child abuses committed by employees of the BBC?

Was there a big dip in the 1990s?

I'd need to check who retired/died, but it's certainly possible....

A measure of currency against the US$

Lianachan wrote:I'd need to check who retired/died

Now that's the right idea.

Birth rates then

tubeswell wrote:Birth rates then

Well, that would definitely affect the shape of the curve.

But a birth rate is a rate of change - this is not the change, it is the level.

I was thinking it could be something like the number of babies born each day in China or something

tubeswell wrote:I was thinking it could be something like the number of babies born each day in China or something

Well, something like that. It's cumulative, though. When the baby is born, it stays in the count, until it dies. Or leaves.

The population of [insert location here]?

The llama population in Maine

Lance wrote:The population of [insert location here]?

Indeed

And [insert location here] should be the name of a country.

The llama population of Peru

tubeswell wrote:The llama population of Peru

Not that one. 193 possibilities left! (Or maybe a few more, depending on how you define "country".)

The population of a really small island in the middle of the ocean somewhere

tubeswell wrote:The population of a really small island in the middle of the ocean somewhere

Definitely smaller (in area) than the median country, although bigger than a few dozen others. Above the median country in population at this time.

Not an island in the ocean, but it does have a bit of a lakeshore on the one side.

The vertical axis would be in thousands, so it's getting close to 8.5 million towards the end there, in 2003. Substantially higher now - between 0.1% and 0.2% of the world's population lives there.

I tried a search here but to no avail

https://www.cia.gov/search?q=8.5+million+2003&site=CIA&output=xml_no_dtd&client=CIA&myAction=%2Fsearch&proxystylesheet=CIA&submitMethod=get

It's gone up a bit since 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... population

Population of Azerbaijan?