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Development Indicators, OECD/DAC

WWW site explains the core set of indicators that will be used - at a global level - to monitor performance and adjust development strategies as required. It provides maps, charts and tables for all indicators in the core set. These give an integrated world view of human well-being in its economic, social and environmental aspects. The set will be continuously developed and updated to show results achieved, and the road still to be travelled to reach development goals up to the year 2015. The indicators have been agreed on by the OECD, the United Nations and the World Bank,

Indicators cover: Economic well-being and poverty (Incidence of Extreme Poverty: Population Below $1 Per Day, Poverty Gap Ratio: Incidence times Depth of Poverty, Inequality: Poorest Fifth’s Share of National Consumption, Child Malnutrition: Prevalence of Underweight Under 5s) ; Education and gender equality ( Net enrolment in primary education, Completion of grade-4 in primary education, Literacy rate 15-24 year-olds, Ratio of girls to boys in primary and secondary education, Ratio of literate females to males 15-24 year-olds), Mortality and Reproductive Health (Infant mortality rate, Under-five mortality rate, Maternal mortality ratio, Births attended by skilled health personnel, Contraceptive prevalence rate, Adult HIV-1 sero-prevalence rate); Environment (Access to safe water, Intensity of freshwater use, Land area potected, GDP per unit of energy use, Carbon dioxide emmsions), General (GNP per Capita, Life Expectancy at Birth, Aid as % of GNP, External Debt as % of GNP, Investment as % of GDP, Trade as % of GDP)

WWW site offers sets of country level numerical indicators (available as both tables and Excel files, currently for one year only), maps, graphs, and background materials on the development of the indicators.

Also available on the WWW site is a more detailed set of data on results of poverty surveys.

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