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World Development Indicators 2015
World Development Indicators (WDI) publication is a collection of time-series data for 214 economies, with many indicators going back more than 50 years. WDI provides cross-country comparable statistics about development and people's lives around the globe. It is divided into six sections -- World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. New online tables, previously published in the book, are now available from wdi.worldbank.org/tables and they provide data from the most up-to-date database. Learn more
International Debt Statistics 2015
Focuses on financial flows, trends in external debt, and other major financial indicators for developing and advanced economies (data from Quarterly External Debt Statistics and Quarterly Public Sector Debt databases). Includes over 200 time series indicators from 1970 to 2013, for most reporting countries, and pipeline data for scheduled debt service payments on existing commitments to 2021. Learn more or buy now.
The Little Data Book 2015
The Little Data Book 2015 contains 55 key development indicators such as population and population growth, GNI, GDP, GDP growth, exports and imports, and gross capital formation, deforestation, water use, energy use and electricity use per capita; and more. Buy the book
The Little Data Book on Financial Development 2015/16
The Little Data Book on Financial Development 2015/16 is a pocket edition of the Global Financial Development Database. It contains 38 indicators of financial development in 205 economies, including measures of financial depth, access, efficiency, and stability of financial institutions and markets.
The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2015
The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2015 presents at-a-glance tables for more than 200 economies showing the most recent national data on key indicators of information and communications technology (ICT), including access, quality, affordability, efficiency, sustainability and applications. Buy the book
The Little Data Book on Financial Inclusion 2015
The Little Data Book on Financial Inclusion 2015 provides 47 country-level indicators of financial inclusion summarized for all adults and disaggregated by key demographic characteristics—gender, age, education, income, and rural or urban residence. Covering 148 economies, the indicators of financial inclusion measure how people save, borrow, make payments and manage risk. Buy the book
The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2015
The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 2015 is a pocket-sized book providing data for more than 40 key indicators on business environment and private sector development in a single page for each of the World Bank member countries and other economies with populations of more than 30,000. Buy the book
The Little Green Data Book 2015
The Little Green Data Book 2015 is a pocket-sized ready reference on key environmental data for over 200 economies. Key indicators are organized under the headings of agriculture, forestry, oceans, biodiversity, energy, emission and pollution, and water and sanitation. Buy the book
The Little Data Book on Gender 2013
This handy pocket guide is a quick reference for users interested in gender statistics. The book presents gender-disaggregated data for more than 200 economies in an easy country-by-country reference on demography, education, health, labor force, political participation and the Millennium Development Goals. The book's summary pages cover regional and income group aggregates. Buy the book
Atlas of Global Development, Fourth Edition: A Visual Guide to the World's Greatest Challenges
Published in association with Harper Collins, the fourth edition of the Atlas of Global Development vividly illustrates the most important development challenges facing our world today. Based upon authoritative data from the World Bank's World Development Indicators, this attractive volume provides a wealth of information on critical global topics. Buy the book
The Little Book on External Debt 2012
The Little Book on External Debt provides a quick reference on external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, key debt ratios, and the currency composition of long-term debt for the 128 countries reporting through the Debtor Reporting system. Buy the book