News and updates
Entrepreneurship Indicators
Posted on 14 May 2013
Revision of the 2012 indicators on entrepreneurship, in partnership with the Global Entrepreneurship Research Association
How many countries available for selected year?
Posted on 12 May 2013The number of available countries for the year selected is now displayed on the map and ranking chart.
State of Palestine
Posted on 8 May 2013Following recent changes in the UN classification of countries and territories (M49), Occupied Palestinian Territories become State of Palestine
WDI 2013
Posted on 20 April 2013
World Development Indicators updated with the 2013 edition, just released by the World Bank.
It includes 31 new series.
Marriages, Divorces
Posted on 4 April 2013Statistics on marriages, divorces and legally induced abortion from the UN Demographic Yearbook updated
Human Development Index
Posted on 2 April 2013Human Development Index updated from the 2013 Human Development Report (see Development)
Corruption Perceptions Index
Posted on 1 April 2013Corruption Perceptions Index and evolution of the ranking since 2001, from Transparency International, now included (see Violence-Crimes, Corruption)
New functionality for tables
Posted on 6 March 2013Easy filtering of multi-dimension tables now available. For example, table on employment by occupation can be filtered by each category of occupation,
tables on population projections can be filtered by variant of projection...
Entrepreneurship Indicators
Posted on 4 March 2013In partnership with the Global Entrepreneurship Research Association, indicators on entrepreneurship have been updated for 2012
Population of urban agglomerations
Posted on 28 Jan 2013Population of urban agglomerations of more than 1 million inhabitants and population of capital cities urban agglomerations now available,
from the last UN World Urbanization Prospects
More than 1500 series
Posted on 15 Jan 20131556 series of statistical indicators are now available, and world-statistics is still growing.
Agriculture production indicators
Posted on 2 Jan 2013Indicators on production of crops, crops processed and stocks of live animal from FAO now available.
Labour costs indicators
Posted on 15 Dec 2012Indicators on labour costs from ILO now available, such as hourly compensation costs of employees in manufacturing and breakdown by direct pay, benefit and social insurance and labour-related tax costs.
Entrepreneurship Indicators
Posted on 4 Dec 2012In partnership with the Global Entrepreneurship Research Association, new indicators on entrepreneurship are now available (in Economy and Finance domain).
Did you know that the proportion of persons considering entrepreneurship as a desirable carrer choice was highest in Latin America
(Colombia 86%, Brazil 86%...)
Food supply indicators
Posted on 20 Nov 2012Following the licensing of dissemination by FAO, a first set of 44 indicators related to food supply is now available on world statistics.
New Topics Pages
Posted on 15 Nov 2012New pages presenting for each topic the international organizations producing data, themes, main databases and publications
World Statistics Blog
Posted on 26 Oct 2012A blog to present and comment new releases of information and statistics from international organisations, and also show how to access the corresponding indicators on world-statistics.org.
World Development Indicators updated
Posted on 25 Oct 2012New child mortality estimates by the UN Inter-agency group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) have been released for neonatal, infant and under-five mortality; and new malnutrition estimates have been jointly released by WHO, UNICEF, and the World Bank.
More than 14 million data in world statistics
Posted on 8 Oct 2012More than 14 million data are available for 1337 indicators, and world-statistics is still growing.
Comparing countries
Posted on 15 Sept 2012To compare two (or more) countries, you can keep the country selection
while selecting new indicators using the "Find an indicator" box. This enables detailed comparison, such as population, GDP per capita...
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Eurostat
Eurostat Databases
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United Nations Population Division
World Population Prospect, the 2010 revision
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