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World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank’s premier compilation of cross-country comparable data on development. The World Development Indicators is a compilation of relevant, high-quality, and internationally comparable statistics about global development and the fight against poverty. The database contains 1,400 time series ...
To assess the content of deep trade agreements the following datasets have been created: 1. Deep Trade Agreements database 1.0 (horizontal depth) This dataset maps the coverage of 52 selected policy areas in 400 PTAs notified at WTO signed between 1958 and 2023. It also includes information about legal enforceability of each policy area.
The Global Consumption Database is a one-stop source of data on household consumption patterns in developing countries. It is designed to serve a wide range of users—from researchers seeking data for analytical studies to businesses seeking a better understanding of the markets into which they are expanding or those they are already serving.
Trends in Solid Waste Management. The world generates 2.01 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste annually, with at least 33 percent of that—extremely conservatively—not managed in an environmentally safe manner. Worldwide, waste generated per person per day averages 0.74 kilogram but ranges widely, from 0.11 to 4.54 kilograms.
One of the aims of [goal: 3] is to end the epidemics of infectious diseases including tuberculosis, malaria, and AIDS by 2030 [target: 3.3]. In recent years, incidence levels for many of these diseases were steadily decreasing. COVID-19 has reversed part of the progress by placing a heavy burden on health systems across the world.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a widely used indicator, refers to the total gross value added by all resident producers in the economy. Growth in the economy is measured by the change in GDP at constant price. Many WDI indicators use GDP or GDP per capita as a denominator to enable cross-country comparisons of socioeconomic and other data.
About 11 percent of the world's people rely on fisheries and aquaculture as the main source of income, and more than 90 percent of them work in capture fisheries in small enterprises in low- and middle-income countries.7. FAO data from 2014 indicate that 56.6 million people were engaged in capture fishing and aquaculture in 2014.
x The world by region Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018 xi Romania Serbia Greece Bulgaria Germany Ukraine FYR Macedonia Croatia Bosnia and Herzegovina Czech Republic Poland Hungary Italy Austria Slovenia Slovak Republic Kosovo Montenegro Albania San Marino Europe Inset Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Sint Maarten (Neth.) Saint-Martin (Fr ...
SDG target 1.1 aims to eradicate extreme poverty entirely by 2030. In 2013, the World Bank set a similar numerical target: to reduce the extreme poverty rate to 3 percent. Using reported macroeconomic data, estimates can be extended from 2017 to 2019. They suggest that the global poverty rate fell below 9 percent.
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