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World Development Indicators

Alternate Titles(s): World Bank World Development Indicators, WDI
UID: 79
Description
The World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates. You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share them. (From the World Bank DataBank website). It is one of the databases in the World Bank DataBank.
Publisher
World Bank
Geographic Coverage
Global
Local Experts
Haksoon Ahn
Subject Domain
Economic Indicators
Social Indicators
Keywords
Global Development
Statistics

Access

Restrictions
Unrestricted access
Instructions
Freely accessible from the World Development Indicators website.
Associated Publications
Sun D, Ahn H, Lievens T, Zeng W (2017) Evaluation of the performance of national health systems in 2004-2011: An analysis of 173 countries. PLoS ONE 12(3): e0173346. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0173346
Data Type
Time Series
Geospatial
Microdata
Dataset Format(s)
Data Table, Database, Chart, Map, Metadata
PubMed Search
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