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- 8th Grade Achievement in Mathematics
- 8th Grade Achievement in Science
- Access to an improved water source (% of population)
- Access to improved sanitation facilities (% of population)
- Adult Literacy Rate (% age 15 and above)
- Adult literacy rate (female rate % ages 15 and above)
- Adult literacy rate (female rate as % of male rate)
- Adult literacy rate, female (% ages 15 and above)
- Adult literacy rate, male (% ages 15 and above)
- Affordability: Price basket for internet (US $ per month)
- Agricultural Products Exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Agricultural products imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Agriculture value added per worker (constant 2000 US$)
- Agriculture, value added (% of GDP)
- Agriculture, value added (constant 2000 US$)
- Agriculture, value added (current US$)
- Annual freshwater withdrawals (% of internal resources)
- Annual freshwater withdrawals (billion cubic meters)
- Application Secure Internet Servers per million people
- Automotive products exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Automotive products imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Availability of e-Government Services (1-7)
- Availability of Venture Capital (1-7)
- Average annual change in consumer price index (%) (end of two years)
- Average annual change in consumer price index (%) since 1990
- Average annual population growth rate
- Balance of Payments: Capital account - debit (million US dollars)
- Balance of Payments: Capital account, n.i.e-credit (million US dollars)
- Balance of Payments: Current transfers - debit (million US dollars)
- Balance of Payments: Current transfers, n.i.e-credit (million US dollars)
- Balance of Payments: Financial account, n.i.e (million US dollars)
- Balance of Payments: Goods - exports f.o.b (million US dollars)
- Balance of Payments: Goods - imports f.o.b (million US dollars)
- Balance of Payments: Net errors and omissions (million US dollars)
- Balance of Payments: Reserves and related items (million US dollars)
- Balance of Payments: Service and income -credit (million US dollars)
- Balance of Payments: Service and income-debit (million US dollars)
- Bertelsmann Transformation Index (Management index)
- Bertelsmann Transformation Index (Status Index)
- Births attended by skilled health personnel (1996-2004)
- Book production: titles by UDC classes - total
- Borda rule ranking: AHDI ranking 1998
- Brain Drain (1-7)
- Broadband subscribers per 1000 people
- Business disclosure index (0=less disclosure to 10=more disclosure)
- Carbon Dioxide emissions - Per capita (metric tons)
- Carbon Dioxide emissions - share of world total (%)
- Carbon dioxide emissions per capita (metric tons)
- Cellular mobile subscribers (per 1000 people)
- Cellular mobile telephone subscribers (number)
- Chemicals (% of value added in manufacturing)
- Chemicals exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Chemicals imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Children reaching 5th grade (%)
- Cinemas: annual attendance (millions)
- Cinemas: number
- Civil Liberties Ratings
- Clothing exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Clothing imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Colleges (number)
- Combined gross enrolment ratio for primary, secondary and tertiary level schools, female (%)
- Combined gross enrolment ratio for primary, secondary and tertiary level schools, male (%)
- Combined gross enrolment ratio for primary, secondary and tertiary schools (%)
- Combined gross enrolment ratio for primary, secondary and tertiary schools, female as a percentage of male
- Composite Risk Rating
- Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (% of women ages 15-49)
- Contract Intensive Money
- Control of Corruption
- Conventional arms transfers (1990 Prices) exports (US$ millions)
- Conventional arms transfers (1990 Prices) imports (US$ millions)
- Conventional arms transfers (1990 Prices) share %
- Corporate Ethics Index (CEI)
- Corporate Governance Index (CGI)
- Corporate Illegal Corruption Index Component (CICI)
- Corporate Legal Corruption Index Component (CLCC)
- Corruption Perceptions Index
- Cost of business start-up procedures (% of GNI per capita)
- Cost to Enforce a Contract (% of Debt)
- Current account balance (as % of GDP)
- Daily newspaper circulation - per 1000 inhabitants
- Daily newspaper circulation - total (000)
- Daily newspapers (number of titles)
- Daily newspapers (per 1000 people)
- Dependency ratio
- Development grant expenditures: government self-supporting (000 US dollars)
- Development grant expenditures: other UN system-extra budgetary (000 US dollars)
- Development grant expenditures: other UN system-regular budget (000 US dollars)
- Development grant expenditures: total (000 US dollars)
- Development grant expenditures: UNDP- special funds (000 US dollars)
- Development grant expenditures: UNDP-central resources (000 US dollars)
- Development grant expenditures: UNFPA (000 US dollars)
- Development grant expenditures: UNICEF (000 US dollars)
- Development grant expenditures: WFP (000 US dollars)
- Distribution of Euro-Arab cooperation projects in research and development among Arab countries (%)
- Domestic Credit to Private Sector (as % of GDP)
- Education Index
- Electricity consumption per capita (kilowatt-hours)
- Electronic data processing and office equipment exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Electronic data processing and office equipment imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Employees, agriculture, female (% of female employment)
- Employees, agriculture, male (% of male employment)
- Employees, industry, female (% of female employment)
- Employees, industry, male (% of male employment)
- Employment in agriculture (% of total employment)
- Employment in industry (% of total employment)
- Employment in Services (%)
- Energy use per capita (average annual % growth 1990-2003)
- Energy use per capita (kilograms of oil equivalent)
- Estimate of the extent of deprivation of human capabilities, Disease (%)
- Estimate of the extent of deprivation of human capabilities, Hunger (%)
- Estimate of the extent of deprivation of human capabilities, Ignorance (%)
- Estimate of the extent of deprivation of human capabilities, Inadequate income (%)
- Estimate of the extent of deprivation of human capabilities, Poverty (%)
- Estimated earned income, female (PPP US $)
- Estimated earned income, male (PPP US $)
- Estimated Net FDI flows (millions of dollars)
- Estimated population projection (medium variant scenario) in millions
- Expectation of lost healthy years at birth (years), females as a percentage of males
- Exports of goods and services (as % of GDP)
- Extent of Business Internet Use (1-7)
- Extent of confidence in labour unions (%)
- Extent of confidence in parliament (%)
- Extent of confidence in places of worship (%)
- Extent of confidence in political parties (%)
- Extent of confidence in television (%)
- Extent of confidence in the press (%)
- Extent of dissatisfaction over the presence of foreign military bases in any Arab country (%)
- Extent of dissatisfaction with the current level of Arab cooperation
- Extent of satisfaction with the cost of government education (%)
- Extent of satisfaction with the cost of government health care (%)
- Extent of satisfaction with the cost of private education (%)
- Extent of satisfaction with the cost of private health care (%)
- Extent of satisfaction with the current level of Arab cooperation
- Extent of satisfaction with the level of government education (%)
- Extent of satisfaction with the level of government health care (%)
- Extent of satisfaction with the level of private education (%)
- Extent of satisfcation with the level of private health care (%)
- Extent of Staff Training (1-7)
- Extent of willingness to go to court in cases relating to financial and economic cases (%)
- Extent of willingness to go to court in cases relating to freedoms (%)
- Extent of willingness to go to court in cases relating to personal affairs (%)
- External debt: Public and publicly guaranteed long-term debt (million US dollars)
- Female circumcision rates (up to the year 2000) (%)
- Female economic activity (as % of male rate, ages 15 and older)
- Female economic activity rate (% ages 15 and older)
- Female employment in agriculture (%)
- Female employment in industry (%)
- Female employment in services (%)
- Female primary net enrolment ratio (%)
- Female secondary net enrolment ratio (%)
- Female tertiary gross enrolment ratio (%)
- Female unemployment rate as a percentage of male unemployment rate
- Final consumption expenditure (constant 2000 US$)
- Firm-Level Technology Absorption (1-7)
- Fixed-line and mobile phone subscribers (per 1000 people)
- Food Exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Food imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Food, beverages and tobacco (% of value added in manufacturing)
- Foreign Direct Investment, Net Outflows (% of GDP)
- Fuel exports (% of merchandise exports)
- Fuels and mining products exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Fuels and mining products imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Fuels Exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Fuels imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Gas: number of years of production at present rate of production (R/P ratio)
- Gas: Proved reserves (% of world total)
- Gas: proved reserves (trillion of cubic meters)
- GDP (PPP US$)
- GDP (US$ billions)
- GDP deflator (base year varies by country)
- GDP index (HDI)
- GDP per capita (PPP US $) rank minus HDI rank
- GDP per capita (PPP US$)
- GDP per capita (US$)
- GDP per capita annual growth rate (%) since 1990
- GDP per capita annual growth rate (%) since 1975
- GDP per capita, highest value (PPP US $)
- GDP per capita, year of highest value
- GDP per unit of energy use (2000 PPP US $ per kg of oil equivalent)
- Gender empowerment measure (GEM values)
- Gender-related Development Index (GDI)
- General government final consumption expenditure (constant 2000 US$)
- Global Competitiveness Index
- GNI (current US$)
- GNI per capita, Atlas method (current US$)
- Government Effectiveness
- Gross capital formation (% of GDP)
- Gross capital formation (constant 2000 US$)
- Gross domestic product (GDP % growth)
- Gross domestic savings (% of GDP)
- Gross domestic savings (current US$)
- Gross enrollment ratio, tertiary level (% of relevant age group)
- Gross value added at factor cost (constant 2000 US$)
- HDI ranking 1998
- Health expenditure per capita (PPP US $)
- High-technology exports (as % of manufactured exports)
- Household final consumption expenditure (constant 2000 US$)
- Households with television (%)
- Human Development Index
- Human Development Index - HDI rank (worldwide)
- Human Poverty Index (HP1-1) Value (%)
- Illiteracy rate, female (%)
- Illiteracy rate, male (%)
- Illiteracy rate, total (%)
- Imports of goods and services (as % of GDP)
- Incidence of Tuberculosis (per 100000 people)
- Income tax (as % of total tax revenue)
- Industry, value added ( % of GDP)
- Industry, value added (constant 2000 US$)
- Industry, value added (current US $)
- Inequality measure - Gini index
- Inequality measures: Ratio of richest 10% to poorest 10%
- Inequality measures: Ratio of richest 20% to poorest 20%
- Infant mortality rate (per 1000 live births)
- Inflation, GDP deflator (annual %)
- Information and communication technology expenditure (% of GDP)
- Information and communication technology expenditure per capita (US$)
- Integrated circuits and electronic components exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Integrated circuits and electronic components imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Intellectual Property Protection
- Intensity of Local Competition
- Interest Rate Spread
- Internally displaced people (thousands)
- International Internet bandwidth bits per capita
- Internet Access in Schools (1-7)
- Internet hosts per 100000 inhabitants
- Internet penetration, users as % of population
- Internet users (per 1000 people)
- Internet users (estimated number)
- Iron and steel exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Iron and steel imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Judicial/Legal Effectiveness (JLEI)
- KEI (Knowledge Economy Index)
- KI (Knowledge Index)
- Labor force with primary education (% of total)
- Labor force with secondary education (% of total)
- Labor force with tertiary education (% of total)
- Labor Force, female (% of total labor force)
- Labor Force, total
- Land use: Permanent cropland (% of land area)
- Libraries and Archives (number)
- Life Expectancy at Birth (years)
- Life expectancy at birth, female (years)
- Life expectancy at birth, male (years)
- Life Expectancy Index
- Machinery and transport equipment (% of value added in manufacturing)
- Machinery and transport equipment exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Machinery and transport equipment imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Male employment in agriculture (%)
- Male employment in industry (%)
- Male employment in services (%)
- Manufactured exports (as % of merchandise exports)
- Manufactures Exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Manufactures imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Manufacturing Trade as % of GDP
- Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP)
- Manufacturing, value added (constant 2000 US$)
- Manufacturing, value added (current US$)
- Maternal mortality ratio adjusted (per 100000 live births)
- Maternal mortality ratio reported (per 100000 live births)
- Mean years of schooling (female population 25 years and older)
- Mean years of schooling (MYS), population 15 years of age and older
- Mean years of schooling (population 25 years of age and older)
- Military expenditure (as % of GDP)
- Natural Gas: Consumption (billion cubic meters)
- Natural Gas: Production (billion cubic meters)
- Net disbursements of official development assistance and aid: total, bilateral & multilateral (per capita)
- Net disbursements of official development assistance and aid: total, bilateral and multilateral (million)
- Net disbursements of official development assistance and official aid: bilateral (million US dollars)
- Net disbursements of official development assistance and official aid: multilateral (million US dollars)
- Net Foreign direct investment inflows (as % of GDP)
- Net primary enrolment ratio (%)
- Net secondary enrolment ratio (%)
- Net trade in goods (as % of GDP)
- Networked Readiness Index
- Non-daily newspaper circulation - per 1000 inhabitants
- Non-daily newspaper circulation - total (000)
- Non-daily newspapers (number of titles)
- Number of cinema seats per 1000 persons
- Number of expatriate working women (in thousands)
- Number of higher education students per 100000 inhabitants
- Number of patents registered in the United States from Arab countries during the period 1980-2000
- Number of personal computers (per 1000 people)
- Number of scientific research centres (outside of universities) in Arab countries
- Number of students from some Arab countires in the United States after September 2001 events
- Number of students from some Arab countries in the United States before September 2001 events
- Office and telecom equipment exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Office and telecom equipment imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Official development assistance (ODA) received (net disbursements) as % of GDP
- Official development assistance (ODA) received (net disbursements) per capita (US$)
- Official development assistance (ODA) received (net disbursements) total (US$ millions)
- Oil and gas revenues as percentage of central government revenues
- Oil: Consumption (thousands of barrels per day)
- Oil: Crude oil prices (in constant 2006 USD)
- Oil: Crude oil prices (in current USD)
- Oil: Number of years of production at present rate of production (R/P ratio)
- Oil: Production (thousands of barrels a day)
- Oil: Proved Reserves
- Oil: Proved Reserves (% of world total)
- Other manufacturing (% of value added in manufacturing)
- Other private flows (as % of GDP)
- Patents Granted by USPTO
- Patents Granted by USPTO / Mil. People, avg 2001-05
- Patents granted to residents (per million people)
- Perceived absence of government accountability (%)
- Perceived lack of freedom of opinion and expression (%)
- Percentage agreeing that girls are entitled to education exactly on the same basis as boys
- Percentage agreeing that women are entitled to employment on an equal footing with men
- Percentage agreeing that women are entitled to political activity on equal footing with men
- Percentage of female students in business, law, social sciences in Arab universities, 2002/2003
- Percentage of female students in engineering, industry and construction in Arab universities, 2002/2003
- Percentage of female students in humanities and literature in Arab universities, 2002/2003
- Percentage of female students in science in Arab universities, 2002/2003
- Percentage of the female labour force who are expatriate working women
- Periodicals (number of titles)
- Periodicals: circulation - total (000)
- Pharmaceuticals exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Pharmaceuticals imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Physicians (per 100000 people)
- Political Rights Ratings
- Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism
- Polity Score
- Population (million)
- Population aged 65 and above (as % of total)
- Population living below $2 a day (%)
- Population living below the national poverty line (%)
- Population under age 15 (as % of total)
- Population without sustainable access to an improved water source (%)
- Poverty headcount ratio at rural poverty line (% of rural population)
- Poverty: population below 1$ a day
- Poverty: population below 2$ a day
- Poverty: population below the national poverty line
- Preferred forms of stronger Arab cooperation, a free Arab citizenship zone (%)
- Preferred forms of stronger Arab cooperation, a free Arab trade zone (%)
- Preferred forms of stronger Arab cooperation, complete political unity (%)
- Preferred forms of stronger Arab cooperation, unified Arab currency (%)
- Present value of debt (% GNI)
- Present value of debt (% of exports of goods, services and income)
- Press Freedom Rankings
- Prevalence of child malnutrition (% of children under age 5 that are stunting)
- Prevalence of child malnutrition (% of children under age 5 that are underweight)
- Prevalence of HIV female (% of population with HIV)
- Prevalence of HIV total (% of population ages 15-49)
- Prevalence of undernourishment (% of population)
- Primary exports (as % of merchandise exports)
- Primary net enrolment ratio (female as % of male )
- Private health expenditure (% of GDP)
- Private Sector Spending on R&D (1-7)
- Probability at birth of not surviving to age 40 (% of cohort)
- Probability at birth of surviving to age 65, female (% of cohort)
- Probability at birth of surviving to age 65, male (% of cohort)
- Procedures to build a warehouse (number)
- Procedures to enforce a contract (number)
- Procedures to register property (number)
- Professional and Technical Workers as % of the Labor Force
- Public expenditure on education (as % of GDP)
- Public expenditure on education (as % of total government expenditure)
- Public expenditure on education as % of GDP
- Public expenditure on education as % of total government expenditure
- Public expenditure on education by level (as % of all levels pre-primary and primary)
- Public expenditure on education by level (as % of all levels secondary)
- Public expenditure on education by level (as % of all levels tertiary)
- Public expenditure on health (as % of GDP)
- Public expenditure per pupil as a % of GDP per capita
- Public Sector Ethics Index (PSEI)
- Quality of Management Schools (1-7)
- Quality of Science and Math Education (1-7)
- Radio receivers in use - number per 1000 inhabitants
- Radio receivers in use - total (000)
- Ratification of Environmental Treaties - Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
- Ratification of Environmental Treaties - Convention on Biological Diversity
- Ratification of Environmental Treaties - Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Ratification of Environmental Treaties - Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Ratio of Estimated Female to Male Earned Income
- Ratio of female to male enrollments in primary and secondary school (%)
- Real GDP per capita (PPP $)
- Receipts of royalties and license fees (US$ per person)
- Reduction rate of the number of students in the United States after September 2001 events (%)
- Refugees by country of asylum (thousands)
- Refugees by country of origin (thousands)
- Regulatory Quality
- Renewable internal freshwater resources flows (in billion cubic meters)
- Renewable internal freshwater resources per capita (in cubic meter)
- Research & development R&D expenditure (as % GDP)
- Researchers (Scientists and engineers) in R&D (per million people)
- Researchers in R&D
- Rigidity of employment index (0=less rigid to 100=more rigid)
- Royalty and License Fees Payments (US $/population)
- Royalty and License Fees Payments and Receipts (current US $)
- Royalty and License Fees Payments and Receipts (US $/population)
- Royalty and license fees, payments (BoP, current US$)
- Royalty and license fees, receipts (BoP, current US$)
- Rule of Law
- Rural population
- Rural population (% of total population)
- Rural population density (rural population per sq. km of arable land)
- Rural population growth (annual %)
- School enrollment, secondary (% gross)
- School enrollment, secondary, female (% gross)
- School enrollment, tertiary (% gross)
- Schools connected to the internet %
- Science and Engineering Enrolment Ratio (%)
- Science Enrolment Ratio (%)
- Scientific and Technical Journal Articles
- Scientific and Technical Journal Articles / Mil. People
- Seats in parliament held by women - both houses - (as % of total)
- Seats in parliament held by women - lower house or single house (as % of total)
- Seats in parliament held by women - upper house of senate (as % of total)
- Secondary net enrolment ratio (female rate as % of male rate)
- Services, etc., value added (constant 2000 US$)
- Services, value added ( % of GDP)
- Services, value added (current US $)
- Sex ratio
- Share of extractive industries in commodity production (%)
- Soundness of Banks
- Start-up procedures to register a business (number)
- Tariff and Nontariff Barriers
- Tax Revenue (as % of GDP)
- Tax Revenue (as % of total revenue)
- Taxes on exports (% of tax revenue)
- Taxes on goods and services (% of revenue)
- Taxes on income, profits and capital gains (% of total taxes)
- Taxes on international trade (% of revenue)
- Telecommunications equipment exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Telecommunications equipment imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Telephone mainlines (per 1000 people)
- Television receivers in use - number per 1000
- Television receivers in use - total (000)
- Terms of trade (1980=100)
- Tertiary gross enrolment ratio (female rate as % of male rate)
- Tertiary students in science, math and engineering (as % of all tertiary students)
- Textiles and clothing (% of value added in manufacturing)
- Textiles exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Textiles imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Time required to build a warehouse (days)
- Time required to enforce a contract (days)
- Time required to register property (days)
- Time required to start a business (days)
- Time to resolve insolvency (years)
- Total armed forces (thousands)
- Total armed forces index (1985=100)
- Total debt service (% of exports of goods, services and income)
- Total debt service (% of GNI)
- Total debt service (as % of exports of goods and services)
- Total debt service (as % of GDP)
- Total fertility rate per women
- Total merchandise exports (US dollar at current prices)
- Total merchandise imports (US dollar at current prices)
- Total Revenue (as % of GDP)
- Trade (% of GDP)
- Trade in merchandise (as % of GDP)
- Traditional fuel consumption (% of total energy requirements)
- Tuberculosis treatment success rate (% of registered cases)
- Under-five mortality rate (per 1000 live births)
- Unemployment Rate (Female %)
- Unemployment Rate (Male %)
- Unemployment Rate (Total %)
- Universities (number)
- University-Company Research Collaboration (1-7)
- Urban population (as % of total)
- Value Chain Presence (1-7)
- Voice and Accountability
- Women in government at ministerial level (as % of total)
- Women in nonagricultural sector (% of total)
- Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, received (% of GDP)
- Workers' remittances, receipts (BoP, current US$)
- Year first woman was elected (E) or appointed (A) to parliament
- Year women received right to stand for election
- Year women received right to vote
- Years of life expectancy lost to disease (years), females
- Years of life expectancy lost to disease (years), males
- Youth literacy rate (% age 15-24)
- Youth literacy rate (% ages 15-24, male)
- Youth literacy rate (female rate % ages 15-24)
- Youth literacy rate (female rate as % of male rate)
- Youth Unemployment (% ages 15-24)
 


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