Talk point: is the world booming where you live?

Five years on, much of Europe and North America is still struggling to recover from the 2008 global financial shock. Yet in some developing countries and emerging economies, the refrain appears to be: "Crisis, what crisis?" Eye-watering economic growth rates, along with rapid increases in university enrolment and access to technology, suggest a different story.

In the Guardian's booming world series, reports from Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, Mexico, Thailand and Turkey explore how these middle-income countries have fared over the past five years. Our interactiveexamines different measures of progress – child mortality, university enrolment, mobile phone subscriptions and tourism – to analyse the "boom".

Indonesia, for example, is seeing steady economic growth fuelled in part by changing lifestyles and growing domestic demand. Its GDP is expected to rise by 6% in 2012. Kate Hodal meets a vendor of custom motorcycles who says sales increased by 500% over the past two years. Reports say Indonesia's steady growth means the size of its economy may surpass Britain and Germany within 20 years.

Nepal is reaping the benefits of record prices for coffee exports, driven by growing demand in traditionally tea-drinking countries such as India and China. Coffee, however, is one of the few industries, other than tourism, that is thriving in Nepal, a country divided by poverty and political instability.

What have the past five years meant for you? Whether you live in one of the countries profiled or not, let us know if you see progress where you live. How important is mobile phone growth? What do you exp