Dataset description and subject
overview
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The World Banks Africa Development Indicators (ADI) provide annual time series data for over 1,400 indicators. Topics covered by the extensive database include national accounts, balance of payments, trade, prices and government finance and external debt with data on household welfare (from the Survey-based Harmonized Indicators Program), demography, health, education, the regulatory environment, communications, transport, energy and the environment. A key feature of the database is the level of detail with over 1,200 indicators for each country.
The main topics in the ADI are as follows:
Basic Indicators and National Accounts
Basic indicators
BOPS
Debt
GFS
Money
National accounts
Prices
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Development Outcomes
Agriculture and rural development
Doing business
Drivers of growth
Governance and partnership
HIV/AIDS
Human development
Infrastructure
Investment climate
Labor, migration and population
Malaria
National Accounts
Population
Private sector development
Protected areas
Trade
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Millennium Development Goals
Millennium Development Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Millennium Development Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Millennium Development Goal 3: Promote gender equity and empower women
Millennium Development Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Millennium Development Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Millennium Development Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
Millennium Development Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Millennium Development Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
User Documentation
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Accessing the Africa Development Indicators
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To access the ESDS International macro-economic datasets you must be a user from a UK higher or further education institution. We cannot provide data to users outside of this community due to the data re-distribution license agreements we have with our data providers. If you are a member of a UK higher or further education institution access to the macro-economic datasets is provided free of charge.
Access to data requires ESDS registration and uses the federated access management authentication system. Registration is a simple online process - go to the How to Register web page at www.esds.ac.uk/aandp/access/access.asp to begin the process.
Once you have registered with ESDS and attempt to access one of the macro-economic datasets, you will automatically be prompted to agree to additional dataset specific conditions if they apply.
Countries in the Africa Development Indicators
The World Bank's Africa Development Indicators contain data for 53 African countries and 5 regional country groups (Microsoft Excel, 25.5kb)
Periodicity and Time Range
The Africa Development Indicators contain annual time series data from 1960 to the latest available year.
At ESDS International the database is updated annually. See the latest data update page for further information.
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