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Browse development indicators grouped by topic. Each topic contains multiple indicators with data for 217 countries.

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Demographics

7 indicators

Population size, growth rates, urbanization trends, density, and fertility rates across 217 countries.

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Economy

9 indicators

GDP, income per capita, trade balances, inflation, and economic growth indicators for every country.

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Health

7 indicators

Life expectancy, infant mortality, maternal health, disease prevalence, and healthcare access metrics.

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Education

6 indicators

School enrollment rates, literacy, government education spending, and completion rates by gender.

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Environment

5 indicators

CO2 emissions, renewable energy adoption, forest coverage, and access to clean water and sanitation.

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Infrastructure

5 indicators

Internet penetration, electricity access, mobile subscriptions, and transportation infrastructure.

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Social

6 indicators

Poverty rates, income inequality, unemployment, labor force participation, and governance indicators.

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Labor & Wages

3 indicators

Average monthly earnings, weekly hours worked, and purchasing power parity data across 150+ countries from ILO and World Bank.

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Download the compiled country-catalog statistics as country-catalog-statistics.csv (same CSV as the homepage Dataset). Free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0).

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PlainCountries, “PlainCountries development topics.” Compiled from World Bank Open Data, WHO Global Health Observatory, ILO ILOSTAT, and OECD statistics; data as of 2024. https://plaincountries.com/topics

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