World Development Indicators 2012
World Development Indicators 2012 is a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about development and the quality of people’s lives. Organized around six themes—world view, people, the environment, the economy, states and markets, and global links—it aims to put data into the hands of policy makers, development specialists, students, and the public. We encourage and applaud the use of the data presented here to help reduce poverty and to solve the world’s most pressing development challenges. The full dataset used to produce World Development Indicators contains more than 1,000 indicators for 216 economies, with many time series extending back to 1960. Buy the book
Global Development Finance 2012
Global Development Finance (GDF) is the sole repository for statistics on the external debt of developing countries on a loan-by-loan basis. This edition of GDF presents reported or estimated data on the total external debt of all low-and middle-income countries in both electronic and print formats. Data are shown for 129 individual countries that report to the World Bank's Debtor reporting System (DRS). These countries report to the DRS under Operational Policy 14.10 mandate of the World Bank. Buy the book
Atlas of Global Development, Third Edition: A Visual Guide to the World's Greatest Challenges
Published in association with Harper Collins, the completely revised and updated third edition of the Atlas of Global Development vividly illustrates the key development challenges facing our world today. Keeping abreast of a changing world, new topics have been added including child employment, internet use, foreign direct investment, food production and energy flows. Buy the book
The Little Data Book 2012
The Little Data Book 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 Book on External Debt 2011
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
The Little Data Book on Financial Inclusion 2012
The Little Data Book on Financial Inclusion 2012 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 Gender 2011
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
The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2011
This new addition to the Little Data Book series 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 Private Sector Development 2011
The Little Data Book on Private Sector Development 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 2012
The Little Green Data Book 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