What is the Air transport, freight (million ton-km)?
Air freight is the volume of freight, express, and diplomatic bags carried on each flight stage (operation of an aircraft from takeoff to its next landing), measured in metric tons times kilometers traveled.
Source: International Civil Aviation Organization, Civil Aviation Statistics of the World and ICAO staff estimates.
Meaning of the Air transport, passengers carried?
Air passengers carried include both domestic and international aircraft passengers of air carriers registered in the country.
Source: International Civil Aviation Organization, Civil Aviation Statistics of the World and ICAO staff estimates.
Description of the Air transport, registered carrier departures worldwide?
Registered carrier departures worldwide are domestic takeoffs and takeoffs abroad of air carriers registered in the country.
Source: Same as above.
What is the Alternative and nuclear energy (% of total energy use)?
Clean energy is noncarbohydrate energy that does not produce carbon dioxide when generated. It includes hydropower and nuclear, geothermal, and solar power, among others.
Source: IEA Statistics © OECD/IEA 2014 (http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp), subject to https://www.iea.org/t&c/termsandconditions/
Meaning of the Annual freshwater withdrawals, agriculture (% of total freshwater withdrawal)?
Annual freshwater withdrawals refer to total water withdrawals, not counting evaporation losses from storage basins. Withdrawals also include water from desalination plants in countries where they are a significant source. Withdrawals can exceed 100 percent of total renewable resources where extraction from nonrenewable aquifers or desalination plants is considerable or where there is significant water reuse. Withdrawals for agriculture are total withdrawals for irrigation and livestock production. Data are for the most recent year available for 1987-2002.
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, AQUASTAT data.
Description of the Annual freshwater withdrawals, domestic (% of total freshwater withdrawal)?
Annual freshwater withdrawals refer to total water withdrawals, not counting evaporation losses from storage basins. Withdrawals also include water from desalination plants in countries where they are a significant source. Withdrawals can exceed 100 percent of total renewable resources where extraction from nonrenewable aquifers or desalination plants is considerable or where there is significant water reuse. Withdrawals for domestic uses include drinking water, municipal use or supply, and use for public services, commercial establishments, and homes. Data are for the most recent year available for 1987-2002.
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, AQUASTAT data.
What is the Annual freshwater withdrawals, industry (% of total freshwater withdrawal)?
Annual freshwater withdrawals refer to total water withdrawals, not counting evaporation losses from storage basins. Withdrawals also include water from desalination plants in countries where they are a significant source. Withdrawals can exceed 100 percent of total renewable resources where extraction from nonrenewable aquifers or desalination plants is considerable or where there is significant water reuse. Withdrawals for industry are total withdrawals for direct industrial use (including withdrawals for cooling thermoelectric plants). Data are for the most recent year available for 1987-2002.
Source: Same as above.
Meaning of the Annual freshwater withdrawals, total (% of internal resources)?
Annual freshwater withdrawals refer to total water withdrawals, not counting evaporation losses from storage basins. Withdrawals also include water from desalination plants in countries where they are a significant source. Withdrawals can exceed 100 percent of total renewable resources where extraction from nonrenewable aquifers or desalination plants is considerable or where there is significant water reuse. Withdrawals for agriculture and industry are total withdrawals for irrigation and livestock production and for direct industrial use (including withdrawals for cooling thermoelectric plants). Withdrawals for domestic uses include drinking water, municipal use or supply, and use for public services, commercial establishments, and homes. Data are for the most recent year available for 1987-2002.
Source: Same as above.
Description of the Annual freshwater withdrawals, total (billion cubic meters)?
Same as previous description. Please, look explanation above.
Source: Same as above.
What is the Annualized average growth rate in per capita real survey mean consumption or income, bottom 40% of population (%)?
The growth rate in the welfare aggregate of the bottom 40% is computed as the annualized average growth rate in per capita real consumption or income of the bottom 40% of the population in the income distribution in a country from household surveys over a roughly 5-year period. Mean per capita real consumption or income is measured at 2011 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) using the Poverty and Inequality Platform (http://www.pip.worldbank.org). For some countries means are not reported due to grouped and/or confidential data. The annualized growth rate is computed as (Mean in final year/Mean in initial year)^(1/(Final year – Initial year)) – 1. The reference year is the year in which the underlying household survey data was collected. In cases for which the data collection period bridged two calendar years, the first year in which data were collected is reported. The initial year refers to the nearest survey collected 5 years before the most recent survey available, only surveys collected between 3 and 7 years before the most recent survey are considered. The coverage and quality of the 2011 PPP price data for Iraq and most other North African and Middle Eastern countries were hindered by the exceptional period of instability they faced at the time of the 2011 exercise of the International Comparison Program. See the Poverty and Inequality Platform for detailed explanations.
Source: World Bank, Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP) (http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/global-database-of-shared-prosperity).
Meaning of the Annualized average growth rate in per capita real survey mean consumption or income, total population (%)?
The growth rate in the welfare aggregate of the total population is computed as the annualized average growth rate in per capita real consumption or income of the total population in the income distribution in a country from household surveys over a roughly 5-year period. Mean per capita real consumption or income is measured at 2011 Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) using the Poverty and Inequality Platform (http://www.pip.worldbank.org). For some countries means are not reported due to grouped and/or confidential data. The annualized growth rate is computed as (Mean in final year/Mean in initial year)^(1/(Final year – Initial year)) – 1. The reference year is the year in which the underlying household survey data was collected. In cases for which the data collection period bridged two calendar years, the first year in which data were collected is reported. The initial year refers to the nearest survey collected 5 years before the most recent survey available, only surveys collected between 3 and 7 years before the most recent survey are considered. The coverage and quality of the 2011 PPP price data for Iraq and most other North African and Middle Eastern countries were hindered by the exceptional period of instability they faced at the time of the 2011 exercise of the International Comparison Program. See the Poverty and Inequality Platform for detailed explanations.
Source: World Bank, Global Database of Shared Prosperity (GDSP) (http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/global-database-of-shared-prosperity).
Description of the Antiretroviral therapy coverage (% of people living with HIV)?
Antiretroviral therapy coverage indicates the percentage of all people living with HIV who are receiving antiretroviral therapy.
Source: UNAIDS estimates.
What is the Antiretroviral therapy coverage for PMTCT (% of pregnant women living with HIV)?
Percentage of pregnant women with HIV who receive antiretroviral medicine for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT).
Source: UNAIDS estimates.
Meaning of the Aquaculture production (metric tons)?
Aquaculture is understood to mean the farming of aquatic organisms including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Aquaculture production specifically refers to output from aquaculture activities, which are designated for final harvest for consumption.
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization.
Description of the Arable land (% of land area)?
Arable land includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.
What is the Arable land (hectares per person)?
Arable land (hectares per person) includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.
Meaning of the Arable land (hectares)?
Arable land (in hectares) includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.
Source: Same as above.
Description of the ARI treatment (% of children under 5 taken to a health provider)?
Children with acute respiratory infection (ARI) who are taken to a health provider refers to the percentage of children under age five with ARI in the last two weeks who were taken to an appropriate health provider, including hospital, health center, dispensary, village health worker, clinic, and private physician.
Source: UNICEF, State of the World’s Children, Childinfo, and Demographic and Health Surveys.
What is the Armed forces personnel (% of total labor force)?
Armed forces personnel are active duty military personnel, including paramilitary forces if the training, organization, equipment, and control suggest they may be used to support or replace regular military forces. Labor force comprises all people who meet the International Labour Organization’s definition of the economically active population.
Source: International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance.
Meaning of the Armed forces personnel, total?
Armed forces personnel are active duty military personnel, including paramilitary forces if the training, organization, equipment, and control suggest they may be used to support or replace regular military forces.
Source: International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance.
Description of the Arms exports (SIPRI trend indicator values)?
Arms transfers cover the supply of military weapons through sales, aid, gifts, and those made through manufacturing licenses. Data cover major conventional weapons such as aircraft, armored vehicles, artillery, radar systems, missiles, and ships designed for military use. Excluded are transfers of other military equipment such as small arms and light weapons, trucks, small artillery, ammunition, support equipment, technology transfers, and other services. Figures are SIPRI Trend Indicator Values (TIVs) expressed in US$ m. A ‘0’ indicates that the value of deliveries is less than US$0.5m
Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Arms Transfers Programme (http://portal.sipri.org/publications/pages/transfer/splash).
What is the Arms imports (SIPRI trend indicator values)?
Arms transfers cover the supply of military weapons through sales, aid, gifts, and those made through manufacturing licenses. Data cover major conventional weapons such as aircraft, armored vehicles, artillery, radar systems, missiles, and ships designed for military use. Excluded are transfers of other military equipment such as small arms and light weapons, trucks, small artillery, ammunition, support equipment, technology transfers, and other services. Figures are SIPRI Trend Indicator Values (TIVs) expressed in US$ m. A ‘0’ indicates that the value of deliveries is less than US$0.5m.
Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Arms Transfers Programme (http://portal.sipri.org/publications/pages/transfer/splash).
Meaning of the Automated teller machines (ATMs) (per 100,000 adults)?
Automated teller machines are computerized telecommunications devices that provide clients of a financial institution with access to financial transactions in a public place.
Source: International Monetary Fund, Financial Access Survey.
Description of the Average precipitation in depth (mm per year)?
Average precipitation is the long-term average in depth (over space and time) of annual precipitation in the country. Precipitation is defined as any kind of water that falls from clouds as a liquid or a solid.
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization, electronic files and web site.
What is the Average time to clear exports through customs (days)?
Average time to clear exports through customs is the average number of days to clear direct exports through customs.
Source: World Bank, Enterprise Surveys (http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/).
Meaning of the Average transaction cost of sending remittances from a specific country (%)?
Average transaction cost of sending remittance from a specific country is the average of the total transaction cost in percentage of the amount sent for sending USD 200 charged by each single remittance service provider (RSP) included in the Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) database from a specific country.
Source: World Bank, Remittance Prices Worldwide, available at http://remittanceprices.worldbank.org
Description of the Average transaction cost of sending remittances to a specific country (%)?
Average transaction cost of sending remittance to a specific country is the average of the total transaction cost in percentage of the amount sent for sending USD 200 charged by each single remittance service provider (RSP) included in the Remittance Prices Worldwide (RPW) database to a specific country.
Source: World Bank, Remittance Prices Worldwide, available at http://remittanceprices.worldbank.org
What is the Average working hours of children, study and work, ages 7-14 (hours per week)?
Average working hours of children studying and working refer to the average weekly working hours of those children who are attending school in combination with economic activity.
Source: Understanding Children’s Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.
Meaning of the Average working hours of children, study and work, female, ages 7-14 (hours per week)?
Same as previous description. Please, look explanation above.
Source: Understanding Children’s Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.
Description of the Average working hours of children, study and work, male, ages 7-14 (hours per week)?
Same as previous description. Please, look explanation above.
Source: Same as above.
What is the Average working hours of children, working only, ages 7-14 (hours per week)?
Average working hours of children working only refers to the average weekly working hours of those children who are involved in economic activity and not attending school.
Source: Same as above.
Meaning of the Average working hours of children, working only, female, ages 7-14 (hours per week)?
Same as previous description. Please, look explanation above.
Source: Same as above.
Description of the Average working hours of children, working only, male, ages 7-14 (hours per week)?
Same as previous description. Please, look explanation above.
Source: Same as above.
What is the Bank capital to assets ratio (%)?
Bank capital to assets is the ratio of bank capital and reserves to total assets. Capital and reserves include funds contributed by owners, retained earnings, general and special reserves, provisions, and valuation adjustments. Capital includes tier 1 capital (paid-up shares and common stock), which is a common feature in all countries’ banking systems, and total regulatory capital, which includes several specified types of subordinated debt instruments that need not be repaid if the funds are required to maintain minimum capital levels (these comprise tier 2 and tier 3 capital). Total assets include all nonfinancial and financial assets.
Source: International Monetary Fund, Financial Soundness Indicators.
Meaning of the Bank liquid reserves to bank assets ratio (%)?
Ratio of bank liquid reserves to bank assets is the ratio of domestic currency holdings and deposits with the monetary authorities to claims on other governments, nonfinancial public enterprises, the private sector, and other banking institutions.
Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and data files.
Description of the Bank nonperforming loans to total gross loans (%)?
Bank nonperforming loans to total gross loans are the value of nonperforming loans divided by the total value of the loan portfolio (including nonperforming loans before the deduction of specific loan-loss provisions). The loan amount recorded as nonperforming should be the gross value of the loan as recorded on the balance sheet, not just the amount that is overdue.
Source: Same as above.
What is the Battle-related deaths (number of people)?
Battle-related deaths are deaths in battle-related conflicts between warring parties in the conflict dyad (two conflict units that are parties to a conflict). Typically, battle-related deaths occur in warfare involving the armed forces of the warring parties. This includes traditional battlefield fighting, guerrilla activities, and all kinds of bombardments of military units, cities, and villages, etc. The targets are usually the military itself and its installations or state institutions and state representatives, but there is often substantial collateral damage in the form of civilians being killed in crossfire, in indiscriminate bombings, etc. All deaths–military as well as civilian–incurred in such situations, are counted as battle-related deaths.
Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, http://www.pcr.uu.se/research/ucdp/.
Meaning of the Benefit incidence of social insurance programs to poorest quintile (% of total social insurance benefits)?
Benefit incidence of social insurance programs to poorest quintile shows the percentage of total social insurance benefits received by the poorest 20% of the population. Social insurance programs include old age contributory pensions (including survivors and disability) and social security and health insurance benefits (including occupational injury benefits, paid sick leave, maternity and other social insurance). Estimates include both direct and indirect beneficiaries.
Source: ASPIRE: The Atlas of Social Protection – Indicators of Resilience and Equity, The World Bank. Data are based on national representative household surveys. (datatopics.worldbank.org/aspire/)
Description of the Benefit incidence of social protection and labor programs to poorest quintile (% of total SPL benefits)?
Benefit incidence of social protection and labor programs (SPL) to poorest quintile shows the percentage of total social protection and labor programs benefits received by the poorest 20% of the population. Social protection and labor programs include social insurance, social safety nets, and unemployment benefits and active labor market programs. Estimates include both direct and indirect beneficiaries.
Source: ASPIRE: The Atlas of Social Protection – Indicators of Resilience and Equity, The World Bank. Data are based on national representative household surveys. (datatopics.worldbank.org/aspire/)
What is the Benefit incidence of social safety net programs to poorest quintile (% of total safety net benefits)?
Benefit incidence of social safety net programs to poorest quintile shows the percentage of total social safety net benefits received by the poorest 20% of the population. Social safety net programs include cash transfers and last resort programs, noncontributory social pensions, other cash transfers programs (child, family and orphan allowances, birth and death grants, disability benefits, and other allowances), conditional cash transfers, in-kind food transfers (food stamps and vouchers, food rations, supplementary feeding, and emergency food distribution), school feeding, other social assistance programs (housing allowances, scholarships, fee waivers, health subsidies, and other social assistance) and public works programs (cash for work and food for work). Estimates include both direct and indirect beneficiaries.
Source: Same as above.
Meaning of the Benefit incidence of unemployment benefits and ALMP to poorest quintile (% of total U/ALMP benefits)?
Benefit incidence of unemployment benefits and active labor market programs (ALMP) to poorest quintile shows the percentage of total unemployment and active labor market programs benefits received by the poorest 20% of the population. Unemployment benefits and active labor market programs include unemployment compensation, severance pay, and early retirement due to labor market reasons, labor market services (intermediation), training (vocational, life skills, and cash for training), job rotation and job sharing, employment incentives and wage subsidies, supported employment and rehabilitation, and employment measures for the disabled. Estimates include both direct and indirect beneficiaries.
Source: Same as above.
Description of the Binding coverage, all products (%)?
Binding coverage is the percentage of product lines with an agreed bound rate. Bound rates result from trade negotiations incorporated into a country’s schedule of concessions and are thus enforceable.
Source: World Bank staff estimates using the World Integrated Trade Solution system, based on data from World Trade Organization.
What is the Binding coverage, manufactured products (%)?
Binding coverage is the percentage of product lines with an agreed bound rate. Bound rates result from trade negotiations incorporated into a country’s schedule of concessions and are thus enforceable. Manufactured products are commodities classified in SITC revision 3 sections 5-8 excluding division 68.
Source: World Bank staff estimates using the World Integrated Trade Solution system, based on data from World Trade Organization.
Meaning of the Binding coverage, primary products (%)?
Binding coverage is the percentage of product lines with an agreed bound rate. Bound rates result from trade negotiations incorporated into a country’s schedule of concessions and are thus enforceable. Primary products are commodities classified in SITC revision 3 sections 0-4 plus division 68 (nonferrous metals).
Source: Same as above.
Description of the Bird species, threatened?
Birds are listed for countries included within their breeding or wintering ranges. Threatened species are the number of species classified by the IUCN as endangered, vulnerable, rare, indeterminate, out of danger, or insufficiently known.
Source: United Nations Environmental Program and the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, and International Union for Conservation of Nature, Red List of Threatened Species.
What is the Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)?
Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of population change in the absence of migration.
Source: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision. (2) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (4) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years), (5) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database, and (6) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme.
Meaning of the Births attended by skilled health staff (% of total)?
Births attended by skilled health staff are the percentage of deliveries attended by personnel trained to give the necessary supervision, care, and advice to women during pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period; to conduct deliveries on their own; and to care for newborns.
Source: UNICEF, State of the World’s Children, Childinfo, and Demographic and Health Surveys.
Description of the Borrowers from commercial banks (per 1,000 adults)?
Borrowers from commercial banks are the reported number of resident customers that are nonfinancial corporations (public and private) and households who obtained loans from commercial banks and other banks functioning as commercial banks. For many countries data cover the total number of loan accounts due to lack of information on loan account holders.
Source: International Monetary Fund, Financial Access Survey.
What is the Bound rate, simple mean, all products (%)?
Simple mean bound rate is the unweighted average of all the lines in the tariff schedule in which bound rates have been set. Bound rates result from trade negotiations incorporated into a country’s schedule of concessions and are thus enforceable.
Source: World Bank staff estimates using the World Integrated Trade Solution system, based on data from World Trade Organization.
Meaning of the Bound rate, simple mean, manufactured products (%)?
Simple mean bound rate is the unweighted average of all the lines in the tariff schedule in which bound rates have been set. Bound rates result from trade negotiations incorporated into a country’s schedule of concessions and are thus enforceable. Manufactured products are commodities classified in SITC revision 3 sections 5-8 excluding division 68.
Source: World Bank staff estimates using the World Integrated Trade Solution system, based on data from World Trade Organization.
Description of the Bound rate, simple mean, primary products (%)?
Simple mean bound rate is the unweighted average of all the lines in the tariff schedule in which bound rates have been set. Bound rates result from trade negotiations incorporated into a country’s schedule of concessions and are thus enforceable. Primary products are commodities classified in SITC revision 3 sections 0-4 plus division 68 (nonferrous metals).
Source: Same as above.
What is the Bribery incidence (% of firms experiencing at least one bribe payment request)?
Bribery incidence is the percentage of firms experiencing at least one bribe payment request across 6 public transactions dealing with utilities access, permits, licenses, and taxes.
Source: World Bank, Enterprise Surveys (http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/).
Meaning of the Broad money (% of GDP)?
Broad money (IFS line 35L..ZK) is the sum of currency outside banks; demand deposits other than those of the central government; the time, savings, and foreign currency deposits of resident sectors other than the central government; bank and traveler’s checks; and other securities such as certificates of deposit and commercial paper.
Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and data files, and World Bank and OECD GDP estimates.
Description of the Broad money (current LCU)?
Same as previous description. Please, look explanation above.
Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and data files.
What is the Broad money growth (annual %)?
Same as previous description. Please, look explanation above.
Source: International Monetary Fund, International Financial Statistics and data files.
Meaning of the Broad money to total reserves ratio?
Same as previous description. Please, look explanation above.
Source: Same as above.