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Data Books: 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. Learn more or buy now.
International Debt Statistics 2013
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 2011, for most reporting countries, and pipeline data for scheduled debt service payments on existing commitments to 2019. Learn more or buy now
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 second 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. Learn more here or see other eAtals vizuilsation tools here. Buy now.
Data Visualization Tools: Data Visualizer Bubble Chart
Data Visualizer is a World Bank tool which employs “bubble charts” to display data in four dimensions. In each chart, the size of the country circle represents a volume measure, such as population or GDP. The position of the bubbles is determined by the indicators selected for the horizontal and vertical axes. The time series used in Data Visualizer is a subset of 2009 World Development Indicators database. As of 4/20/2010, Data Visualizer contains 49 indicators for 209 countries and 18 aggregates from 1960-2007. Data includes social, economic, financial, information & technology, and environmental indicators.
Mobile Applications: DataFinder for iPhone and iPad:
The World Bank DataFinder lets you access fifty years of World Bank data on global economic indicators, chart and visualize that data, and share those charts for use in your presentations and projects. The DataFinder will be of use to students, professors, economists, researchers, and anyone looking to learn more about global economic indicators and trends. Download DataFinder 3 app for either iOS, Android or Blackberry here.
