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2007/2008 Report
The latest global Report on the theme of climate change has been launched on 27 November 2007.
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Indicators by Tables - 2007/2008 Report
MONITORING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: ENLARGING PEOPLE’S CHOICES . .
01 - Human development index
- Adult literacy rate (% aged 15 and older)
- Combined gross enrolment ratio for primary, secondary and tertiary education (%)
- Education index
- GDP index
- GDP per capita (PPP US$)
- GDP per capita (PPP US$) rank minus HDI rank
- Human development index value
- Life expectancy at birth, annual estimates (years)
- Life expectancy index
1a - Basic indicators for other UN member states
- Adult literacy rate (% aged 15 and older)
- Combined gross enrolment ratio for primary, secondary and tertiary education (%)
- Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
- GDP per capita (PPP US$)
- HIV prevalence (% aged 15-49)
- Life expectancy at birth, annual estimates (years)
- Net primary enrolment rate (%)
- Population undernourished (% of total population)
- Population using an improved water source (%)
- Population, total (thousands)
- Under-five mortality rate (per 1,000 live births)
02 - Human development index trends
03 - Human and income poverty: developing countries
- Adult illiteracy rate (% aged 15 and older)
- Children underweight for age (% under age 5)
- HPI-1 rank minus income poverty rank
- Human poverty index (HPI-1) rank
- Human Poverty Index (HPI-1) value (%)
- Population living below $1 a day (%)
- Population living below $2 a day (%)
- Population living below the national poverty line (%)
- Population not using an improved water source (%)
- Probability at birth of not surviving to age 40 (% of cohort)
04 - Human and income poverty: OECD countries, Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS
- HPI-2 rank minus income poverty rank
- Human poverty index (HPI-2) rank
- Human poverty index (HPI-2) value (%)
- Long-term unemployment (% of labour force)
- Population lacking functional literacy skills (% aged 16-65)
- Population living below $11 a day (1994 PPP US$)
- Population living below $4 a day (1990 PPP US$)
- Population living below 50% of median income (%)
- Probability at birth of not surviving to age 60 (% of cohort)
. . . TO LEAD A LONG AND HEALTHY LIFE . . .
05 - Demographic trends
- Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
- Population aged 65 and older (% of total population)
- Population under age 15 (% of total population)
- Population, annual growth rate (%)
- Population, total (millions)
- Population, urban (% of total population)
06 - Commitment to health: resources, access and services
- Births attended by skilled health personnel (%)
- Children with diarrhoea receiving oral rehydration and continued feeding (% under age 5)
- Contraceptive prevalence rate (% of married women aged 15-49)
- Health expenditure per capita (PPP US$)
- One-year-olds fully immunized against measles (%)
- One-year-olds fully immunized against tuberculosis (%)
- Physicians (per 100,000 people)
- Private expenditure on health (% of GDP)
- Public expenditure on health (% of GDP)
07 - Water, sanitation and nutritional status
- Children under height for age (% under age 5)
- Children under weight for age (% under age 5)
- Infants with low birthweight (%)
- Population undernourished (% of total population)
- Population using an improved water source (%)
- Population using improved sanitation (%)
08 - Inequalities in maternal and child health
- Births attended by skilled health personnel, poorest 20% (%)
- Births attended by skilled health personnel, richest 20% (%)
- Children under height for age, poorest 20% (% children under age 5)
- Children under height for age, richest 20% (% children under age 5)
- Infant mortality rate, poorest 20% (per 1,000 live births)
- Infant mortality rate, richest 20% (per 1,000 live births)
- One-year-olds fully immunized, poorest 20% (%)
- One-year-olds fully immunized, richest 20% (%)
- Survey year for inequality data in table 8
- Under-five mortality rate, poorest 20% (per 1,000 live births)
- Under-five mortality rate, richest 20% (per 1,000 live births)
09 - Leading global health crises and risks
- Children under age 5 using insecticide-treated bednets (%)
- Children under age 5 with fever treated with antimalarial drugs (%)
- Condom use at last high-risk sex, men (% aged 15-24)
- Condom use at last high-risk sex, women (% aged 15-24)
- HIV prevalence (% aged 15-49)
- Prevalence of smoking, men (% of adults)
- Prevalence of smoking, women (% of adults)
- Tuberculosis cases cured under DOTS (%)
- Tuberculosis cases detected under DOTS (%)
- Tuberculosis cases, prevalence (per 100,000 people)
10 - Survival: progress and setbacks
- Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births)
- Life expectancy at birth, quinquennial estimates (years)
- Maternal mortality ratio, adjusted (per 100,000 live births)
- Maternal mortality ratio, reported (per 100,000 live births)
- Probability at birth of surviving to age 65, female (% of cohort)
- Probability at birth of surviving to age 65, male (% of cohort)
- Under-five mortality rate (per 1,000 live births)
. . . TO ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE . . .
11 - Commitment to education: public spending
- Current public expenditure on education, pre-primary and primary (as % of all levels)
- Current public expenditure on education, secondary (% of all levels)
- Current public expenditure on education, tertiary (% of all levels)
- Public expenditure on education (% of GDP)
- Public expenditure on education (% of total government expenditure)
12 - Literacy and enrolment
- Adult literacy rate (% aged 15 and older)
- Children reaching grade 5 (% of grade 1 students)
- Net primary enrolment rate (%)
- Net secondary enrolment rate (%)
- Tertiary students in science, engineering, manufacturing and construction (% of tertiary students)
- Youth literacy rate (% aged 15-24)
13 - Technology: diffusion and creation
- Cellular subscribers (per 1,000 people)
- Internet users (per 1,000 people)
- Patents granted to residents (per million peole)
- Receipts of royalties and license fees (US$ per person)
- Research and development expenditure (% of GDP)
- Researchers in R&D (per million people)
- Telephone mainlines (per 1,000 people)
. . . TO HAVE ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES NEEDED FOR A DECENT STANDARD OF LIVING . . .
14 - Economic performance
- Consumer price index, average annual change in (%)
- GDP (current US$ billions)
- GDP per capita (US$)
- GDP per capita, annual growth rate (%)
- GDP per capita, highest value (2005 PPP US$)
- GDP per capita, PPP (2005 international $)
- GDP per capita, year of highest value
- GDP, PPP (current international $ billions)
15 - Inequality in income or expenditure
- Gini index
- Inequality measures, ratio of richest 10% to poorest 10%
- Inequality measures, ratio of richest 20% to poorest 20%
- Share of income or consumption, poorest 10% (%)
- Share of income or consumption, poorest 20% (%)
- Share of income or consumption, richest 10% (%)
- Share of income or consumption, richest 20% (%)
- Survey Year
16 - Structure of trade
- Exports of goods and services (% of GDP)
- High-technology exports (% of manufactured exports)
- Imports of goods and services (% of GDP)
- Manufactured exports (% of merchandise exports)
- Primary exports (% of merchandise exports)
- Terms of trade (2000=100)
17 - OECD-DAC country expenditures on aid
- Official development assistance per capita of donor country (2005 US$)
- Official development assistance to basic social services (% of total allocable by sector)
- Official development assistance to least developed countries (% of total)
- Official development assistance, net disbursed (% of GNI)
- Official development assistance, net disbursed (US$ millions)
- Untied bilateral ODA (% of total)
18 - Flows of aid, private capital and debt
- Debt service, total (% of exports of goods, services and net income from abroad)
- Debt service, total (% of GDP)
- Foreign direct investment, net inflows (% of GDP)
- Official development assistance received (net disbursements) (% of GDP)
- Official development assistance received (net disbursements) (US$ millions)
- Official development assistance received (net disbursements) per capita (US$)
- Private flows, other (% of GDP)
19 - Priorities in public spending
- Debt service, total (% of GDP)
- Military expenditure (% of GDP)
- Public expenditure on education (% of GDP)
- Public expenditure on health (% of GDP)
20 - Unemployment in OECD countries
- Long-term unemployment, men (% of total unemployment)
- Long-term unemployment, women (% of total unemployment)
- Unemployed people (thousands)
- Unemployment rate Female (% of male rate)
- Unemployment rate Total (% of labour force)
- Unemployment rate, average annual (% of labour force)
- Youth unemployment rate (female rate as % of male rate)
- Youth unemployment rate, total (% of labour force aged 15-24)
21 - Unemployment and informal sector work in non-OECD countries
- Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
- Employment in industry (% of total employment)
- Employment in non-agricultural informal sector, both sexes (% of non-agricultural employment)
- Employment in non-agricultural informal sector, female (% of non-agricultural employment)
- Employment in non-agricultural informal sector, male (% of non-agricultural employment)
- Employment in services (% of total employment)
- Employment, total (thousands)
- Survey year
- Unemployed people (thousands)
- Unemployment rate (female rate as % of male rate)
- Unemployment rate Total (% of labour force)
. . . WHILE PRESERVING IT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS . . .
22 - Energy and the environment
- Electricity consumption per capita (% change)
- Electricity consumption per capita (kilowatt-hours)
- Electrification rate (%)
- Forest area (% total land)
- Forest area (thousand sq km)
- Forest area change from 1990-2005 (thousand sq km)
- Forest area, average annual change (%)
- GDP per unit of energy use (% change)
- GDP per unit of energy use (2000 PPP US$ per kg of oil equivalent)
- Population without electricity (millions)
23 - Energy sources
- Biomass and waste (% of total primary energy supply)
- Coal (% of total primary energy supply)
- Gas (% of total primary energy supply)
- Hydro, solar, wind and geothermal power (% of total primary energy supply)
- Nuclear power (% of total primary energy supply)
- Oil (% of total primary energy supply)
- Total primary energy supply (TPES) (Mt of oil equivalent)
24 - Carbon dioxide emissions and stocks
- Carbon intensity of energy (kt CO2 per kt of oil equivalent)
- Carbon intensity of growth ( kt CO2 per million 2000 PPP US$)
- Carbon stocks in forests (living biomass) (Mt C)
- CO2 emissions (% of world total)
- CO2 emissions per capita (tonnes)
- CO2 emissions, average annual change in (%)
- CO2 emissions, total (Mt CO2)
- CO2 emissions/sequestration from forests (Mt CO2 per year)
25 - Status of major international environmental treaties
- Status of environmental treaties - Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of environmental treaties - Convention on Biological Diversity (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of environmental treaties - Framework Convention on Climate Change (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of environmental treaties - Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of environmental treaties - Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of environmental treaties - Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of environmental treaties - UN Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of environmental treaties - UN Law of the Sea (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of environmental treaties - Vienna Convention for the protection of the Ozone Layer (year of ratification/signature)
. . . PROTECTING PERSONAL SECURITY . . .
26 - Refugees and armaments
- Armed forces (thousands)
- Armed forces, index (1985=100)
- Conventional arms transfers, exports (1990 US$ millions)
- Conventional arms transfers, exports (% of world total)
- Conventional arms transfers, imports (1990 US$ millions)
- Internally displaced people (thousands)
- Refugees by country of asylum (thousands)
- Refugees by country of origin (thousands)
27 - Crime and justice
- Homicides (per 100,000 people)
- Prison population (% female)
- Prison population (per 100,000 people)
- Prison population total
- Year in which countries have partially or completely abolished the death penalty
. . . AND ACHIEVING EQUALITY FOR ALL WOMEN AND MEN
28 - Gender-related development index
- Adult literacy rate, female (% aged 15 and older)
- Adult literacy rate, male (% aged 15 and older)
- Combined gross enrolment ratio for primary, secondary and tertiary education, female (%)
- Combined gross enrolment ratio for primary, secondary and tertiary education, male (%)
- Estimated earned income, female (PPP US$)
- Estimated earned income, male (PPP US$)
- Gender-related development index (GDI) rank
- Gender-related development index (GDI) value
- HDI rank minus GDI rank
- Life expectancy at birth, female (years)
- Life expectancy at birth, male (years)
29 - Gender empowerment measure
- Gender empowerment measure (GEM) rank
- Gender empowerment measure (GEM) value
- Legislators, senior officials and managers (% female)
- Professional and technical workers (% female)
- Ratio of estimated female to male earned income
- Seats in parliament (% held by women)
30 - Gender inequality in education
- Adult literacy rate (ratio of female rate to male rate)
- Adult literacy rate, female (% aged 15 and older)
- Gross primary enrolment ratio (ratio of female ratio to male ratio)
- Gross primary enrolment ratio, female (%)
- Gross secondary enrolment ratio (ratio of female ratio to male ratio)
- Gross secondary enrolment ratio, female (%)
- Gross tertiary enrolment ratio (ratio of female ratio to male ratio)
- Gross tertiary enrolment ratio, female (%)
- Net primary enrolment rate (ratio of female rate to male rate)
- Net primary enrolment rate, female (%)
- Youth literacy rate (ratio of female rate to male rate)
- Youth literacy rate, female (% aged 15-24)
31 - Gender inequality in economic activity
- Contributing family workers, men (% of total)
- Contributing family workers, women (% of total)
- Economic activity index (1990=100), female (aged 15 and older)
- Economic activity rate (female rate as % of male rate, aged 15 and older)
- Economic activity rate, female (% aged 15 and older)
- Employment in agriculture, female (% of total female employment)
- Employment in agriculture, male (% of total male employment)
- Employment in industry, female (% of total female employment)
- Employment in industry, male (% of total male employment)
- Employment in services, female (% of total female employment)
- Employment in services, male (% of total male employment)
33 - Women’s political participation
- Seats in lower house or single house (% held by women)
- Seats in upper house or senate (% held by women)
- Women in government at ministerial level (as % of total)
- Year first woman elected (E) or appointed (A) to parliament
- Year women received right to stand for election
- Year women received right to vote
HUMAN AND LABOUR RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS
34 - Status of major international human rights instruments
- Status of human rights instruments: Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of human rights instruments: Convention on the Rights of the Child (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of human rights instruments: International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of human rights instruments: International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of human rights instruments: International convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of human rights instruments: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of human rights instruments: International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (year of ratification/signature)
35 - Status of fundamental labour rights conventions
- Status of labour rights conventions: Abolition of child labour - Convention 138 (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of labour rights conventions: Abolition of child labour - Convention 182 (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of labour rights conventions: Elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation - Convention 100 (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of labour rights conventions: Elimination of discrimination in respect of employment and occupation - Convention 111 (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of labour rights conventions: Elimination of forced and compulsory labour - Convention 105 (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of labour rights conventions: Elimination of forced and compulsory labour - Convention 29 (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of labour rights conventions: Freedom of association and collective bargaining - Convention 87 (year of ratification/signature)
- Status of labour rights conventions: Freedom of association and collective bargaining - Convention 98 (year of ratification/signature)
