World Bank Economic and Social Indicators

Online

Country at a Glance
At-a-Glance tables present two pages of key indicators tracing the trends in social and economic development over the last three decades. Aggregates for each country's regional and income groups are also included. The headings are: poverty and social, key economic ratios and long term trends, structure of the economy, prices and government finance, trade, balance of payments, and external debt and resource flows. Charts such as the "development diamond" make it easy to see the relationships between indicators and among countries.

Data Profile Tables
The data profiles available here are drawn from the World Development Indicators database. The profiles cover the 208 countries (184 World Bank members and 24 other economies with populations of more than 30,000) and 18 country groups reported on in the World Development Indicators book, CD-ROM and the World Bank Atlas.

Documents & Reports
Holds over 15,000 free, downloadable documents, including operational documents (project documents, analytical and advisory work, and evaluations), formal and informal research papers, and most Bank publications.

Doing Business
This database provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement. The Doing Business indicators are comparable across 145 economies. They indicate the regulatory costs of business and can be used to analyze specific regulations that enhance or constrain investment, productivity and growth.

Global Development Finance  Red INCAE
Offers external debt and financial flow data for the 136 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. The timeseries for 217 indicators run from 1970 to 2003, with contractual obligations data until 2013. The indicators include external debt stocks and flows, major economic aggregates, and key debt ratios as well as average terms of new commitments, currency composition of long-term debt, debt restructurings, and scheduled debt service projections.

Investment Climate and Privatization
This site offers best practice public policy advice for private sector led growth in developing countries. Find expert analysis, powerful databases, quick solutions, and comprehensive "how-to" guides. Also contains data on the investment climate in 55 countries, based on surveys of more than 26,000 firms. The surveys provide indicators of firm productivity and performance.

Online Bookstore
Provides access to the World Bank's formal publications, including the World Development Report and a range of books that cover the full spectrum of economic and social development.

World Bank e-Library  Red INCAE
This is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 3,000 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 1,400 World Bank publications and over 2,000 Policy Research Working Papers .

World Development Indicators  Red INCAE
Offers the World Bank's comprehensive database on development data, covering more than 600 indicators, 208 economies, and 18 regional and income groups. The extensive collection of development data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators for more than forty years, from 1960 onwards.

World Development Report
The World Bank's annual World Development Report (WDR) is an invaluable guide to the economic, social and environmental state of the world today. Each year the WDR provides in depth analysis of a specific aspect of development. Past reports have considered such topics as the role of the state, transition economies, labor, infrastructure, health, the environment, and poverty. The reports are the Bank's best-known contribution to thinking about development. More about WDRs...

Selected Yearbooks in English

African Development Indicators. (COS: REF 330.9.6 A258; NIC: REF HC 800.A35 )

Doing Business. (COS: REF 330.9 D6571E ; NIC: HD 3611.D6E)

Global Development Finance. (COS : REF 336.34.09.1724 W9274 ; NIC: REF HJ 8011.G55)

Global Economic Prospects. ( COS : 330.9.1724G562 ; NIC: HC59.7.B32)

Green Miniatlas. (COS : REF 304.2.022.3 G797 ; NIC: REF GE 1046.E1G7)

Little Data Book. (COS : REF 330.9.05 L778 ; NIC: REF HC59.7.L52)

Little Green Data Book. (COS : REF 333.7.05 L778 ; NIC: REF HC79.E5L52)

Miniatlas of Global Development. ( COS : REF 338.9.0022.3 M665 ; NIC: REF GE1046.E1M5)

World Bank Atlas. (COS : REF 310.05 B213 ; NIC: REF HA42.W6)

World Development Indicators. (COS : REF 330.9.05 W9272 ; NIC: REF HC59.7.W59)

World Development Report. (COS: REF 330.9.1724.05 W927 ; NIC: REF HC59.B3i)

CD-ROM

Africa Database 2004. (COS : CD 0220 ; NIC: CD 67)

Global Development Finance 2004. (COS : CD 0228 ; NIC: CD 69)

World Development Indicators 2004. (COS : CD 0221 ; NIC: CD 68)

World Dvelopment Report 1978-2005: with Selected World Development Indicators 2004. (COS : CD 0113 ; NIC: CD 63)

Many of the yearbooks are also published in Spanish. These can be identified in the online catalog where you will also find information about other World Bank publications available in the INCAE library system. Both libraries in the system have been depository libraries for the publications of the World Bank since 1985.

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