This data collection contains economic and social indicators for 189 countries. Included are economic variables such as gross national product, gross domestic product, value added in agriculture, industry, manufacturing, and services, value of imports and exports, private consumption, government consumption, gross national savings, gross domestic savings, government deficit or surplus, net direct foreign investment, repayments of long-term loans, public long-term debt, international reserves excluding gold, and gold holdings at London market price. Many variables are expressed both in terms of current prices and in terms of constant 1980 prices. Demographic and social variables include population, total fertility rate, crude birth rate, life expectancy at birth, food production per capita, percent of labor force in agriculture, percent of labor force that is female, and primary and secondary school enrollment rates.
Note: Most economic data for Germany refer to the Federal Republic of Germany before unification, while demographic and social data are for the unified Germany. There was insufficient data to include any information for the newly created countries of Slovenia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, and the Slovak Republic. Data are provided for the former Yugoslavia and the former Czechoslovakia.
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Suggested Citation for WB/WT as a Secondary Source of Data
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World Bank, International Economics Dept.
WORLD TABLES OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL INDICATORS, 1950-1992
Computer file.
Washington, DC: 1993
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