The raw data behind the story "Blatter's Reign At FIFA Hasn't Helped Soccer's Poor" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/blatters-reign-at-fifa-hasnt-helped-soccers-poor/.
elo_blatter
A data frame with 191 rows representing countries and 5 variables:
FIFA member country
The team's Elo in 1998
The team's Elo in 2015
Confederation to which country belongs
The country's purchasing power parity GDP as of 2006
The country's 2006 population
Source for gdp06
Source for popu06