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- WDI - World Development Indicators (World Bank)
- Over 700 development indicator time series for 218 countries. Data from 1960 when available. Themes include: population and demographics, labor and employment, poverty and income, education, health, land use and agricultural production, energy production, energy use, urbanization, emissions, adjusted savings, national accounts in local currency, $US, current and constant prices, shares of GDP; purchasing power parity, trade, government finance, monetary stats, balance of payments, external debt, investment climate, business environment, financial depth, tax policies, trade policies, defense, public policy, institutions, transport, power, communications, information technology, investment and trade, financial flows, development assistance, migration, travel, tourism. [keywords: international development]
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- Human Development Report (UNDP)
- Indicators of human development based on outcomes for people rather than economic growth. Thematic areas include: life expectancy, poverty, education, health care, sanitation, water, disease, technology diffusion and creation, economic performance, inequality, trade, labor and employment, aid, energy consumption, energy sources, carbon, environmental treaties, refugees, gender empowerment, status of human rights and labor rights, crime and justice, human development index, human poverty index. [keywords: international development]
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- Millennium Development Goals Indicators (UN Statistics Division)
- Indicators designed to measure progress toward the MDGs of eradicating poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empowerment of women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, ensuring sustainability, and establishing a partnership for development. [keywords: international development]
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- UN Common Database
- Over 400 series for 274 countries and areas, over varying periods, some to 1948.
Subjects include: agriculture, forestry and fishing; balance of payments; communication and culture; construction; development assistance; economically active/not economically active; population; education and learning; energy; environment; financial statistics; health, health services; impairment, disabilities; nutrition; households and families, marital status, fertility; human settlements, housing, geog. distribution of pop.; income, consumption and wealth; industrial production; international finance; international tourism; international trade; millennium development goals (mdg); labor; mining and quarrying; national accounts; population composition and change; prices; public order and safety; science and technology, intellectual property; services industries; social security and welfare services; socio-economic groups and social mobility; transport; women and men. [keywords: international development]
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