World Development Indicators

**Overview**
This data package contains data on World Development Indicators on Population and Economy, Poverty and Shared Prosperity, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets and Global links.

**Description**
World Development Indicators includes data spanning up to 56 years—from 1960 to 2016. Data package contains data on global trends with indicators on population, population density, urbanization, GNI, and GDP, indicators measuring the world’s economy and progress toward improving lives, achieving sustainable development, providing support for vulnerable populations, and reducing gender disparities and other indicators measuring Sustainable Development Goals.

**Benefits**
- This data is useful for developing country governments seeking to improve world development indicators on population and economy, poverty and shared prosperity, people, environment, economy, states and markets and global links. this can be used for further research
- officials and program managers for potential interventions, setting priority areas for action and evaluating progress
- policymakers for policy use and development
- development agencies aid in allocating resources and budget for development.

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**Included Datasets**
- [World Development Indicators World View](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/world-development-indicators-world-view)
- This dataset contains data from the World Development Indicators on World View with data on global trends with indicators on population, population density, urbanization, Gross National Income (GNI), and Gross_Domestic_Product (GDP).
- [World Development Indicators on Poverty](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/world-development-indicators-on-poverty)
- This dataset contains data from the World Development Indicators on Poverty and Shared Prosperity presenting indicators that measure progress toward the World Bank Group’s twin goals of ending extreme poverty by 2030 and promoting shared prosperity in every country in a sustainable manner.
- [World Indicators on Sustainable Development Goals](https://www.johnsnowlabs.com/marketplace/world-indicators-on-sustainable-development-goals)
- This dataset presents indicators on education, health, jobs, social protection, and gender accounting for a large part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda - in particular, on poverty eradication, on health, on education opportunities, on gender equality, on water and sanitation, and decent work and economic growth.

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