A lot of times this is done for continuity of the data not for political ignorance. If you look at gapminder.org they use modern countries so that you can trac

A lot of times this is done for continuity of the data not for political ignorance. If you look at gapminder.org they use modern countries so that you can track data over time. Gapminder goes back to 1800 before Germany existed - yet they still call it Germany. Gapminder was originally Swedish although it is now owned by Google.