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Adjusted net enrollment rate, primary, female (% of primary school age children)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SE.PRM.TENR.FE	UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/). Data as of February 2020.
Description	Adjusted net enrollment is the number of pupils of the school-age group for primary education, enrolled either in primary or secondary education, expressed as a percentage of the total population in that age group.
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Adjusted net enrollment rate, primary, male (% of primary school age children)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SE.PRM.TENR.MA	UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/). Data as of February 2020.
Description	Adjusted net enrollment is the number of pupils of the school-age group for primary education, enrolled either in primary or secondary education, expressed as a percentage of the total population in that age group.
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Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.ADO.TFRT	United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects.
Description	Adolescent fertility rate is the number of births per 1,000 women ages 15-19.
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Age dependency ratio (% of working-age population)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.POP.DPND	World Bank staff estimates based on age distributions of United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.
Description	Age dependency ratio is the ratio of dependents--people younger than 15 or older than 64--to the working-age population--those ages 15-64. Data are shown as the proportion of dependents per 100 working-age population.
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Age population, age 00, female
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.POP.AG00.FE.IN	United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.
Description	Age population, female refers to female population at the specified age level. The geographical areas included in the data are the same as the data source.
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Age population, age 00, male
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.POP.AG00.MA.IN	United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.
Description	Age population, male refers to male population at the specified age level. The geographical areas included in the data are the same as the data source.
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Age population, age 01, female
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.POP.AG01.FE.IN	United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.
Description	Age population, female refers to female population at the specified age level. The geographical areas included in the data are the same as the data source.
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Age population, age 01, male
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.POP.AG01.MA.IN	United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.
Description	Age population, male refers to male population at the specified age level. The geographical areas included in the data are the same as the data source.
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Age population, age 02, female
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.POP.AG02.FE.IN	United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.
Description	Age population, female refers to female population at the specified age level. The geographical areas included in the data are the same as the data source.
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Age population, age 02, male
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.POP.AG02.MA.IN	United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.
Description	Age population, male refers to male population at the specified age level. The geographical areas included in the data are the same as the data source.
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Age population, age 03, female
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.POP.AG03.FE.IN	United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.
Description	Age population, female refers to female population at the specified age level. The geographical areas included in the data are the same as the data source.
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Age population, age 03, male
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.POP.AG03.MA.IN	United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.
Description	Age population, male refers to male population at the specified age level. The geographical areas included in the data are the same as the data source.
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Age population, age 04, female
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.POP.AG04.FE.IN	United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.
Description	Age population, female refers to female population at the specified age level. The geographical areas included in the data are the same as the data source.
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Age population, age 04, male
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.POP.AG04.MA.IN	United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.
Description	Age population, male refers to male population at the specified age level. The geographical areas included in the data are the same as the data source.
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Age population, age 05, female
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.POP.AG05.FE.IN	United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.
Description	Age population, female refers to female population at the specified age level. The geographical areas included in the data are the same as the data source.
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Age population, age 05, male
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.POP.AG05.MA.IN	United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2024 Revision.
Description	Age population, male refers to male population at the specified age level. The geographical areas included in the data are the same as the data source.
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Antiretroviral therapy coverage (% of adult females living with HIV)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SH.HIV.ARTC.FE.ZS	UNAIDS estimates.
Description	The percentage of adult females living with HIV who are receiving antiretroviral therapy.
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Antiretroviral therapy coverage (% of adult males living with HIV)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SH.HIV.ARTC.MA.ZS	UNAIDS estimates.
Description	The percentage of adult males living with HIV who are receiving antiretroviral therapy.
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Birth rate, crude (per 1,000 people)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.DYN.CBRT.IN	(1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2022 Revision; (2) Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices; (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics; (4) United Nations Statistics Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years).
Description	Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of population change in the absence of migration.
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Births attended by skilled health staff (% of total)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SH.STA.BRTC.ZS	UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, and Demographic and Health Surveys.
Description	Births attended by skilled health staff are the percentage of deliveries attended by personnel trained to give the necessary supervision, care, and advice to women during pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period; to conduct deliveries on their own; and to care for newborns.
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Children in employment, female (% of female children ages 7-14)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SL.TLF.0714.FE.ZS	Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.
Description	Children in employment refer to children involved in economic activity for at least one hour in the reference week of the survey.
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Children in employment, male (% of male children ages 7-14)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SL.TLF.0714.MA.ZS	Understanding Children's Work project based on data from ILO, UNICEF and the World Bank.
Description	Children in employment refer to children involved in economic activity for at least one hour in the reference week of the survey.
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Children out of school, primary, female
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SE.PRM.UNER.FE	UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). UIS.Stat Bulk Data Download Service. Accessed September 30, 2024. https://apiportal.uis.unesco.org/bdds.
Description	Children out of school are the number of primary-school-age children not enrolled in primary or secondary school.
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Children out of school, primary, male
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SE.PRM.UNER.MA	UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). UIS.Stat Bulk Data Download Service. Accessed September 30, 2024. https://apiportal.uis.unesco.org/bdds.
Description	Children out of school are the number of primary-school-age children not enrolled in primary or secondary school.
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Contraceptive prevalence, any method (% of married women ages 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.DYN.CONU.ZS	Household surveys, including Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. Largely compiled by United Nations Population Division.
Description	Contraceptive prevalence, any method is the percentage of married women ages 15-49 who are practicing, or whose sexual partners are practicing, any method of contraception (modern or traditional). Modern methods of contraception include female and male sterilization, oral hormonal pills, the intra-uterine device (IUD), the male condom, injectables, the implant (including Norplant), vaginal barrier methods, the female condom and emergency contraception. Traditional methods of contraception include rhythm (e.g., fertility awareness based methods, periodic abstinence), withdrawal and other traditional methods.
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Contraceptive prevalence, any modern method (% of married women ages 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.DYN.CONM.ZS	Household surveys, including Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys. Largely compiled by United Nations Population Division.
Description	Contraceptive prevalence, any modern method is the percentage of married women ages 15-49 who are practicing, or whose sexual partners are practicing, at least one modern method of contraception. Modern methods of contraception include female and male sterilization, oral hormonal pills, the intra-uterine device (IUD), the male condom, injectables, the implant (including Norplant), vaginal barrier methods, the female condom and emergency contraception.
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Cost of business start-up procedures, female (% of GNI per capita)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
IC.REG.COST.PC.FE.ZS	World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/). NOTE: Doing Business has been discontinued as of 9/16/2021. For more information: https://bit.ly/3CLCbme
Description	Cost to register a business is normalized by presenting it as a percentage of gross national income (GNI) per capita.
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Cost of business start-up procedures, male (% of GNI per capita)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
IC.REG.COST.PC.MA.ZS	World Bank, Doing Business project (http://www.doingbusiness.org/). NOTE: Doing Business has been discontinued as of 9/16/2021. For more information: https://bit.ly/3CLCbme
Description	Cost to register a business is normalized by presenting it as a percentage of gross national income (GNI) per capita.
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Death rate, crude (per 1,000 people)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SP.DYN.CDRT.IN	(1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2022 Revision; (2) Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices; (3) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics; (4) United Nations Statistics Division. Population and Vital Statistics Reprot (various years).
Description	Crude death rate indicates the number of deaths occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of population change in the absence of migration.
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Decision maker about a woman's own health care: mainly husband (% of women age 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SG.DMK.HLTH.HB.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Description	Decision maker about women own health care: mainly husband is Percentage of currently married women aged 15-49 for whom the decision maker for their own health care is mainly the husband
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Decision maker about a woman's own health care: mainly wife (% of women age 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SG.DMK.HLTH.WF.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Description	Decision maker about women own health care: mainly wife is Percentage of currently married women aged 15-49 for whom the decision maker for their own health care is mainly the respondent
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Decision maker about a woman's own health care: other (% of women age 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SG.DMK.HLTH.OT.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Description	Decision maker about women own health care: other is Percentage of currently married women aged 15-49 for whom the decision maker for their own health care is recorded as 'other'
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Decision maker about a woman's own health care: someone else (% of women age 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SG.DMK.HLTH.SE.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Description	Decision maker about women own health care: someone else is Percentage of currently married women aged 15-49 for whom the decision maker for their own health care is mainly someone else
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Decision maker about a woman's own health care: wife and husband jointly (% of women age 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SG.DMK.HLTH.WH.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Description	Decision maker about women own health care: wife and husband jointly is Percentage of currently married women aged 15-49 for whom the decision maker for their own health care is mainly the respondent and her husband
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Decision maker about a woman's visits to her family or relatives: mainly husband (% of women age 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SG.DMK.VISI.HB.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Description	Decision maker about a woman's visits to her family or relatives: mainly husband is Percentage of currently married women aged 15-49 for whom the decision maker for visits to her family or relatives is mainly the husband
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Decision maker about a woman's visits to her family or relatives: mainly wife (% of women age 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SG.DMK.VISI.WF.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Description	Decision maker about a woman's visits to her family or relatives: mainly wife is Percentage of currently married women aged 15-49 for whom the decision maker for visits to her family or relatives is mainly the respondent
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Decision maker about a woman's visits to her family or relatives: other (% of women age 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SG.DMK.VISI.OT.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Description	Decision maker about a woman's visits to her family or relatives: other is Percentage of currently married women aged 15-49 for whom the decision maker for visits to her family or relatives is recorded as 'other'
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Decision maker about a woman's visits to her family or relatives: someone else (% of women age 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SG.DMK.VISI.SE.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Description	Decision maker about a woman's visits to her family or relatives: someone else is Percentage of currently married women aged 15-49 for whom the decision maker for visits to her family or relatives is mainly someone else
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Decision maker about major household purchases: mainly husband (% of women age 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SG.DMK.PRCH.HB.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Description	Decision maker about ajor household purchases: mainly husband is Percentage of currently married women aged 15-49 for whom the decision maker for major household purchases is mainly the husband
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Decision maker about major household purchases: mainly wife (% of women age 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SG.DMK.PRCH.WF.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Description	Decision maker about major household purchases: mainly wife is Percentage of currently married women aged 15-49 for whom the decision maker for major household purchases is mainly the respondent
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Decision maker about major household purchases: other (% of women age 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SG.DMK.PRCH.OT.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Description	Decision maker about major household purchases: other is Percentage of currently married women aged 15-49 for whom the decision maker for major household purchases is recorded as 'other'
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Decision maker about major household purchases: someone else (% of women age 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SG.DMK.PRCH.SE.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Description	Decision maker about Major household purchases: someone else is Percentage of currently married women aged 15-49 for whom the decision maker for major household purchases is mainly someone else
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Decision maker about major household purchases: wife and husband jointly (% of women age 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SG.DMK.PRCH.WH.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Description	Decision maker about major household purchases: wife and husband jointly is Percentage of currently married women aged 15-49 for whom the decision maker for major household purchases is mainly the respondent and her husband
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Decision maker about Visits to her family or relatives: wife and husband jointly (% of women age 15-49)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SG.DMK.VISI.WH.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)
Description	Decision maker about Visits to her family or relatives: wife and husband jointly is Percentage of currently married women aged 15-49 for whom the decision maker for visits to her family or relatives is mainly the respondent and her husband
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Demand for family planning satisfied by any methods (% of married women with demand for family planning)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SH.FPL.SATI.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys.
Description	Demand for family planning satisfied by any methods refers to the percentage of married women ages 15-49 whose need for family planning is satisfied.
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Demand for family planning satisfied by modern methods (% of married women with demand for family planning)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SH.FPL.SATM.ZS	Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS).
Description	Demand for family planning satisfied by modern methods refers to the percentage of married women ages 15-49 years whose need for family planning is satisfied with modern methods.
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Educational attainment, at least Bachelor's or equivalent, population 25+, female (%) (cumulative)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SE.TER.CUAT.BA.FE.ZS	UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). UIS.Stat Bulk Data Download Service. Accessed September 30, 2024. https://apiportal.uis.unesco.org/bdds.
Description	The percentage of population ages 25 and over that attained or completed Bachelor's or equivalent.
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Educational attainment, at least Bachelor's or equivalent, population 25+, male (%) (cumulative)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SE.TER.CUAT.BA.MA.ZS	UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). UIS.Stat Bulk Data Download Service. Accessed September 30, 2024. https://apiportal.uis.unesco.org/bdds.
Description	The percentage of population ages 25 and over that attained or completed Bachelor's or equivalent.
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Educational attainment, at least completed lower secondary, population 25+, female (%) (cumulative)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SE.SEC.CUAT.LO.FE.ZS	UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). UIS.Stat Bulk Data Download Service. Accessed September 30, 2024. https://apiportal.uis.unesco.org/bdds.
Description	The percentage of population ages 25 and over that attained or completed lower secondary education.
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Educational attainment, at least completed lower secondary, population 25+, male (%) (cumulative)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	Gender Statistics
Code	Source
SE.SEC.CUAT.LO.MA.ZS	UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). UIS.Stat Bulk Data Download Service. Accessed September 30, 2024. https://apiportal.uis.unesco.org/bdds.
Description	The percentage of population ages 25 and over that attained or completed lower secondary education.
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