Publication date: June 1, 2001 Macro time series
Micro time series
Government finance
Social indicators and fixed factors
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Macro Time Series
Database available in MS Excel format (5.29mb), as well as in zip format (1.78mb) and self-extracting zip format (1.79mb) GDP, PPP (current international $) | Global Development Finance & World Development Indicators | GDP at market prices (current US$) | ibid. | GDP at market prices (current LCU) | ibid. | GDP growth (annual %) | ibid. | Real GDP Per Capita in constant dollars (international prices, base year 1985) | Penn World Table 5.6. Missing data calculated from 1985 GDP per capita and GDP per capita growth rates (Global Development Finance & World Development Indicators). | GDP Per Capita growth (annual %) | ibid. | Trading Partners' GDP Per Capita growth (%, weighted average by trade share) | IMF: Directions of Trade (trade data); Global Development Finance & World Development Indicators (GDP per capita growth) | OECD Trading Partners' GDP Per Capita growth (%, weighted average by trade share) | ibid. | Non-OECD Trading Partners' GDP Per Capita growth (%, weighted average by trade share) | ibid. | Agriculture, value added (% of GDP) | Global Development Finance & World Development Indicators | Population, total | ibid. | Population growth (annual %) | ibid. | Urban population (% of total population) | ibid. | Terms of trade adjustment (constant LCU) | ibid. | Terms of trade (goods and services, 1995 = 100) | ibid. | Terms of trade (definition 2) | ibid. | Non-OECD terms of trade (definition 2, weighted by share of trade with non-OECD countries) | ibid; IMF: Directions of Trade (for trade data). | Total trade (imports+exports) (% of GDP) | Global Development Finance & World Development Indicators | Trade with OECD countries (imports+exports) (% of GDP) | ibid. | Trade with non-OECD countries (imports+exports) (% of GDP) | ibid. | Exports of goods and services (BoP, current US$) | ibid. | Exports of goods and services (% of GDP) | ibid. | Imports of goods and services (BoP, current US$) | ibid. | Imports of goods and services (% of GDP) | ibid. | External debt, total (DOD, current US$) | ibid. | External debt (% of GDP) | ibid. | Real effective exchange rate index (1995=100) | ibid. Formula: CPI(local)/(CPI(US)*Official ER) | Official exchange rate (LCU per US$, period average) | ibid. | Real Overvaluation | Dollar 1992 "Outward- oriented developing economies really do grow more rapidly: evidence from 95 LDCs, 1976- 1985" (overvaluation index); Global Development Finance & World Development Indicators (Real effective exchange rate index) | Black market premium (%, 0 means zero) | Levine and Renelt; World Currency Yearbook (1985, 1990-93); Adrian Wood 1988 "Global trends in real exchange rates: 1960-84" (filling in missing observations); Global Development Finance & World Development Indicators (1996-1997, formula: (parallel Xrate/official Xrate-1)*100 ); values for industrial countries are added as 0 | Consumer price index (1995 = 100) | Global Development Finance & World Development Indicators | Inflation, consumer prices (annual %) | ibid. | Real interest rate (%) | ibid. Missing data filled in from Easterly, Rodriguez, and Schmidt-Hebbel "Public Sector Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance." (Statistical appendix) 1994. | Money and quasi money (M2) as % of GDP | ibid. | Overall budget surplus, including grants (% of GDP) | ibid. | Overall budget surplus, excluding capital grants (% of GDP) | ibid. Missing data filled in from Easterly, Rodriguez, and Schmidt-Hebbel "Public Sector Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance." (Statistical appendix) 1994. | Gross domestic investment (% of GDP) | Global Development Finance & World Development Indicators | Public investment (% of GDP) | Guy P. Pfeffermann, Gregory V. Kisunko, and Mariusz A. Sumlinski, "Trends in Private Investment in Developing Countries:Statistics for 1970-97". Missing data filled in from Easterly, Rodriguez, and Schmidt-Hebbel "Public Sector Deficits and Macroeconomic Performance." (Statistical appendix) 1994 and Bruno and Easterly JME 1998. | Private investment (% of GDP) | Global Development Finance & World Development Indicators (for gross domestic investment); Guy P. Pfeffermann, Gregory V. Kisunko, and Mariusz A. Sumlinski, "Trends in Private Investment in Developing Countries:Statistics for 1970-97" (for public investment and private investment) |
2) Micro Time Series
Database available in MS Excel format (865kb), as well as in zip format (259kb) and self-extracting zip format (279kb) Capital per worker | Summers and Heston | Capital per worker (using disagg. Inv.) | Easterly, W. and Ross Levine, “It’s not factor accumulation: stylized facts and growth models” , Mimeo, World Bank and U. of Minnesota, September 1999 | Capital per worker (using agg. Inv.) | ibid. | Capital stock (using disagg. Inv.) | ibid. | Workers | ibid. | Output per worker | ibid. |
3) Government Finance
Database available in MS Excel format (13.9mb), as well as in zip format (2.58mb) and self-extracting zip format (2.6mb) * all variables expressed as % of GDP | IMF: Government Financial Statistics: Central Govt, Consolidated Accts (AVAIL. BUDGETARY+EXTRA-BUDGETARY+SOC SEC); GDP data from Global Development Finance & World Development Indicators | 80. OVERALL DEFICIT/SURPLUS | ibid. | 81. TOTAL REVENUE & GRANTS | ibid. | 81A. TAXES ON INCOME, PROFITS, & CAPITAL GAINS | ibid. | 81B. SOCIAL SECURITY CONTRIBUTIONS | ibid. | 81C. TAXES ON PAYROLL OR WORK FORCE | ibid. | 81D. TAXES ON PROPERTY | ibid. | 81E. DOMESTIC TAXES ON GOODS & SERVICES | ibid. | 81F. TAXES ON INTL TRADE & TRANSACTIONS | ibid. | 81G. OTHER TAXES | ibid. | 81Y. TOTAL REVENUE | ibid. | 81YA. TAX REVENUE | ibid. | 81YB. NONTAX REVENUE | ibid. | 81YC. CAPITAL REVENUE | ibid. | 81YD. CURRENT REVENUE | ibid. | 81Z. GRANTS | ibid. | 82. TOTAL EXPENDITURE | ibid. | 82A. GENERAL PUBLIC SERVICES | ibid. | 82AC. PUBLIC ORDER & SAFETY (B3) | ibid. | 82B. DEFENSE (B2) | ibid. | 82C. EDUCATION (B4) | ibid. | 82D. HEALTH (B5) | ibid. | 82E. SOCIAL SECURITY & WELFARE (B6) | ibid. | 82F. HOUSING & COMMUNITY AMENITIES (B7) | ibid. | 82G. RECREATIONAL, CULTURAL, & RELIG AFFAIRS (B8) | ibid. | 82H. ECONOMIC AFFAIRS & SERVICES (B9 TO B13) | ibid. | 82HB. AGRI, FORESTRY, FISHING, & HUNTING (B10) | ibid. | 82HC. MINING & MINERAL RESOURCES, MANUF, & CONSTRUCTION (B11) | ibid. | 82HD. FUEL & ENERGY (B9) | ibid. | 82HI. TRANSPORTATION & COMMUNICATION (B12) | ibid. | 82HL. OTH ECONOMIC AFFAIRS & SERVICES (B13) | ibid. | 82K. OTH EXPENDITURES (B14) | ibid. | 82N. CURR EXPENDITURE ON GOODS & SERVICES (C1) | ibid. | 82NA. WAGES & SALARIES; EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS (C1.1 + C1.2) | ibid. | 82NP. OTH PURCHASES OF GOODS & SERVICES (C1.3) | ibid. | 82NX. EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS (C1.2) | ibid. | 82PA. INTEREST PAYMENTS (C2) | ibid. | 82PJ. SUBSIDIES & OTH CURR TRANSFERS (C3) | ibid. | 82PK. SUBSIDIES (C3.1) | ibid. | 82PM. TRANSFERS TO OTH LEVELS OF NATL GOVT (C3.2) | ibid. | 82PP. TRANSFERS ABROAD (C3.5) | ibid. | 82PT. TRANSFERS TO NONPROFIT INSTS & HHLDS (C3.3 4 + C3.4) | ibid. | 82R. CURRENT EXPENDITURE (C.III) | ibid. | 82V. CAPITAL EXPENDITURE (C.IV) | ibid. | 82VA. ACQUISITION OF FIXED ASSETS (C4) | ibid. | 82Z. EXPEND & LENDING MINUS REPAYMENTS (C.I; OR C.II + C.V) |
4) Social Indicators and Fixed Factors
Database available in MS Excel format (3.38mb), as well as in zip format (784kb) and self-extracting zip format (803kb) Social Indicators | | School enrollment, primary (% gross) | Global Development Finance & World Development Indicators | School enrollment, secondary (% gross) | ibid. | School enrollment, tertiary (% gross) | ibid. | Mortality rate, infant (per 1,000 live births) | ibid. | Mortality rate, under-5 (per 1,000 live births) | ibid. | Life expectancy at birth, total (years) | ibid. | Telephone mainlines (per 1,000 people) | ibid. | Telephone mainlines per employee | ibid. | Size of military/population | Arthur S. Banks Cross National Time-Series Data Archive | Automobiles per capita | ibid. | First class mail per capita | ibid. | Radios per capita | ibid. | TV sets per capita | ibid. | Newspaper circulation per capita | ibid. | Book titles per capita | ibid. | Assassinations | ibid. | General strikes | ibid. | Guerrilla warfare | ibid. | Major overnment crises | ibid. | Purges | ibid. | Riots | ibid. | Revolutions | ibid. | Party fractionalization index | ibid. Formula: F=1- , where t=the proportion of members associated with the ith party in the lower house of the legislature | Type of regime | ibid. | Coups d'etat | ibid. | Major constitutional changes | ibid. | Major cabinet changes | ibid. | Electric power production per capita (millions of kilowatt hours) | ibid. | | | Fixed Factors | | Transition Economies | | region | The World Bank | region: East Asia and Pacific | ibid. | region: East Europe and Central Asia | ibid. | region: Middle East and North Africa | ibid. | region: South Asia | ibid. | region: West Europe | ibid. | region: North America | ibid. | region: Sub Sahara Africa | ibid. | region: Latin America and Caribbean | ibid. | landlock | | ethnic fractionalization | | longitude | | latitude | | area | | income level | The World Bank | low-income countries | ibid. | lower-middle income countries | ibid. | upper-middle income countries | ibid. | high-income OECD countries | ibid. | high-income non-OECD countries | ibid. | developing countries | ibid. | legal origin: British | | legal origin: French | | legal origin: Socialist | | legal origin: German | | legal origin: Scandinavian | | tropical | | exporters of manufactures | World Development Report | exporters of nonfuel primary products | ibid. | exporters of fuels (mainly oil) | ibid. | exporters of services | ibid. | diversified exporters | ibid. | not classified by export category | ibid. |
5) Notes for data from Global Development Finance and World Development Indicators
(data from other sources are made compatible whenever information is available) Data are shown for economies as they were constituted in 1997, and historical data are revised to reflect current political arrangements unless otherwise noted. On 1 July 1997 China resumed its exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong. Data for China do not include data for Hong Kong, China, or Taiwan, China, unless otherwise noted.
| Data for the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo, Dem. Rep. in the table listings) refer to the former Zaire. For clarity, this edition also uses the formal name of the Republic of Congo (Congo, Rep. in the table listings).
| | | | | In 1991 the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was dissolved into 15 countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan). Whenever possible, data are shown for the individual countries.
| | Whenever possible, data are shown for the individual countries formed from the former Yugoslavia—Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Slovenia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. All references to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the tables are to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia/Montenegro).
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