Electric power consumption The output of power plants and combined heat and power plants minus the transmission, distribution, and transformation losses and own-use by heat and power plants. (IEA) Energy flows Estimated as energy uses less production, both measured in oil equivalents. (IEA)
resources to cover a budget deficit, or allocates financial resources arising from a budget surplus. Includes all government liabilities—other than those for currency issues or demand, time, or savings deposits with government—or claims on others held by government, and changes in government holdings of cash and deposits. Excludes government guarantees of the debt of others. (IMF)
prices and without deductions for the depreciation of all people who supply labor for the production of goods fabricated assets, or for the depletion and degradation of and services during a specified period. (ILO) natural resources. (World Bank) Land, arable Land under temporary crops (doubleGross domestic product (GDP) per capita Gross domestic cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen product divided by midyear population. (World Bank) gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned Gross national income (GNI) Gross domestic product as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded. (FAO) plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of
Emigration rate of people with tertiary education The stock of emigrants with at least tertiary education as a employees and property income) from abroad. Data are share of the total tertiary educated people (residents and Food production index The average of commodity group converted to dollars using the World Bank Atlas price indices of meat, dairy, cereal, oil and fats, and emigrants) in the country. Tertiary education refers to method. (World Bank) sugar weighted with the average export shares of each of International Standard Classification of Education Gross national income (GNI) per capita Gross national the groups for 1999–2001. (FAO) (ISCED) level 5 or above. (OECD) income divided by midyear population. (World Bank) Food production per capita Covers food crops that are Energy use, commercial The apparent consumption of Gross national income (GNI), PPP Gross national income considered edible and that contain nutrients. To commercial energy equals domestic production plus converted to international dollars using purchasing construct the index, production quantities of each imports and stock changes, minus exports and fuels power parity rates. An international dollar has the same commodity are weighted by international prices with supplied to ships and aircraft engaged in international purchasing power over GNI as a U.S. dollar has in the the base period of 1999–2001. This method assigns a transport. (IEA) United States. (World Bank) single price to each commodity so that, for example, one Enrollment rate, gross The ratio of children who are Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative metric ton of wheat has the same price, regardless of enrolled in an education level, regardless of age, to the A program of official creditors designed to relieve the where it is produced. Coffee and tea are excluded population of the corresponding official school age, as poorest and most heavily indebted countries of their because, although edible, they have no nutritive value. defined by the International Standard Classification of debt to certain multilateral creditors, including the (FAO) Education 1997 (ISCED97). (UNESCO Institute for Statistics) World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Foreign direct investment, net inflows Net inflows of Enrollment rate, net The ratio of children of official (World Bank) investment to acquire a lasting interest in or a school age, as defined by the International Standard High-income economies Those with a gross national management control over (10 percent or more of voting Classification of Education 1997 (ISCED97), who are income (GNI) per capita of $11,456 or more in 2007. stock) an enterprise operating in an economy other than enrolled in school, to the population of the (World Bank) that of the investor. It is the sum of equity capital, corresponding official school age. reinvestment of earnings, other long-term capital, and HIV, adults and children living with All people with HIV (UNESCO Institute for Statistics) short-term capital as shown in the balance of payments. infection, whether or not they have developed Exchange rate, official The exchange rate (local currency (IMF) symptoms of AIDS. Adults are defined as those ages 15 units relative to the U.S. dollar) determined by national and over, and children as ages 0–14. (UNAIDS) Forest area Land under natural or planted stands of trees, authorities or the rate determined in the legally whether productive or not. (FAO) HIV, adult prevalence of The proportion of people ages sanctioned exchange market. It is calculated as an 15–49 who are infected with HIV. (UNAIDS) Freshwater resources Total internal renewable resources annual average based on monthly averages. (IMF) (internal river flows and groundwater from rainfall). Immunization rate, measles, child Percentage of children Exports of goods, services, and income International (World Resources Institute) ages 12–23 months who received a vaccination for transactions involving a change in ownership of general measles before 12 months of age, or at any time before Freshwater withdrawals, annual Total water withdrawals, merchandise, goods sent for processing and repairs, the survey. A child is considered adequately immunized not counting evaporation losses from storage basins, but nonmonetary gold, services, receipts of employee against measles after receiving one dose of vaccine. including water from desalination plants in countries compensation for nonresident workers, and investment (WHO and UNICEF) where they are a significant source. Withdrawals also income. (IMF) include water from desalination sources. Withdrawals Industry Economic activity corresponding to Female-to-male enrollments in primary and secondary for agriculture and industry are total withdrawals for International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) schools The ratio of female-to-male gross enrollment irrigation and livestock production and for direct divisions 2–5 (ISIC revision 2) or tabulation categories rates in primary and secondary schools. industrial use (including for cooling thermoelectric C–F (ISIC revision 3). (UNESCO Institute for Statistics) plants). Withdrawals for domestic uses include drinking Interest payments Payments of interest on government Fertility rate, total The number of children that would be water, municipal use or supply, and use for public debt—including long-term bonds, long-term loans, and born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her services, commercial establishments, and home. (WRI) other debt instruments—to both domestic and foreign childbearing years, and bear children in accordance Gross capital formation (commonly called investment) residents. (World Bank) with current age-specific fertility rates. (World Bank) Outlays on additions to the fixed assets of the economy, International $ An international dollar has the same Fertilizer consumption The plant nutrients used per unit net of changes in the level of inventories, and net purchasing power that a U.S. dollar has in the United of arable land. Nitrogenous, potash, and phosphate acquisitions of valuables. Fixed assets include land States. fertilizers (including ground rock phosphate) are improvements (such as fences, ditches, and drains); Internet Proportion of people with access to the included; traditional nutrients, animal, and plant plant, machinery, and equipment purchases; and the by The World Bank e-library users Delivered to: (ITU) worldwide network. manures are not included. The time reference for construction of roads, railways, and dwellings. The World Bank - IMF Library Network IP : 138.220.77.170 fertilizer consumption is the crop year (July through Irrigated land Refers to areas purposely provided with (World Bank, OECD, UN) Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:24:02 June). (FAO) water, including land irrigated by controlled flooding. Gross domestic product (GDP) The sum of gross value (FAO) Financing from abroad (obtained from nonresidents) and added by all resident producers in the economy plus domestic financing (obtained from residents) The Labor force participation rate The proportion of the any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the means by which a government provides financial population ages 15 and older that is economically active; value of the products. It is calculated using purchaser
Land under cereal production Refers to harvested areas, although some countries report only sown or cultivated areas. (FAO) Life expectancy at birth The number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life. (World Bank) Lifetime risk of maternal death The probability that a 15year-old female will die eventually from a maternal cause, assuming that current levels of fertility and mortality (including maternal mortality) do not change in the future, taking into account competing causes of death. (WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, and World Bank) Low-income economies Those with a gross national income (GNI) per capita of $935 or less in 2007. (World Bank)
Malnutrition, underweight children, prevalence of The percentage of children under-5 whose weight for age is more than two standard deviations below the median for the international reference population ages 0–59 months. The data are based on the new international child growth standards for infants and young children, called the Child Growth Standards, released in 2006 by the World Health Organization. (WHO)
Manufacturing Economic activity corresponding to International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) divisions 15–37 or tabulation category D (ISIC Revision 3). Merchandise trade The sum of merchandise exports and imports measured in current U.S. dollars. Also referred to as trade in goods. (WTO) Middle-income economies Those with a gross national income (GNI) per capita of more than $935 but less than $11,456 in 2007. (World Bank) Migration, stock the number of people born in a country other than that in which they live; this includes refugees. (UNSD) Mobile telephone subscribers Proportion of people who subscribe to a public mobile telephone service using cellular technology. (ITU) Mortality rate, infant The number of infants dying before reaching one year of age, per 1,000 live births in a given year. (Harmonized estimates of WHO, UNICEF, and World Bank) Mortality rate, children under-5 The probability that a newborn baby will die before reaching age 5, if subject to current age-specific mortality rates. The probability is expressed as a rate per 1,000. (Harmonized estimates of WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNPD, and World Bank)
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