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Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking (% of population)
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EG.CFT.ACCS.ZSIEA, IRENA, UNSD, World Bank, WHO. 2023. Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report. World Bank, Washington DC. © World Bank. License: Creative Commons Attribution—NonCommercial 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO).
DescriptionAccess to clean fuels and technologies for cooking is the proportion of total population primarily using clean cooking fuels and technologies for cooking. Under WHO guidelines, kerosene is excluded from clean cooking fuels.
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Access to electricity (% of population)
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EG.ELC.ACCS.ZSIEA, IRENA, UNSD, World Bank, WHO. 2023. Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report. World Bank, Washington DC. © World Bank. License: Creative Commons Attribution—NonCommercial 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO).
DescriptionAccess to electricity is the percentage of population with access to electricity. Electrification data are collected from industry, national surveys and international sources.
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Access to electricity, rural (% of rural population)
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EG.ELC.ACCS.RU.ZSIEA, IRENA, UNSD, World Bank, WHO. 2023. Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report. World Bank, Washington DC. © World Bank. License: Creative Commons Attribution—NonCommercial 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO).
DescriptionAccess to electricity, rural is the percentage of rural population with access to electricity.
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Access to electricity, urban (% of urban population)
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EG.ELC.ACCS.UR.ZSIEA, IRENA, UNSD, World Bank, WHO. 2023. Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report. World Bank, Washington DC. © World Bank. License: Creative Commons Attribution—NonCommercial 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO).
DescriptionAccess to electricity, urban is the percentage of urban population with access to electricity.
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Account (% age 15+)
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WP_time_10.1Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
DescriptionDenotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else). For 2011, this can be an account at a bank or another type of financial institution, and for 2014 this can be a mobile account as well (see year-specific definitions for details) (% age 15+). [ts: data are available for multiple waves].
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Account at a financial institution (% age 15+)
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WP_time_01.1Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
DescriptionAccount at a financial institution denotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else) at a bank or another type of financial institution.
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Account at a financial institution, female (% age 15+)
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WP_time_01.3Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
DescriptionAccount at a financial institution denotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else) at a bank or another type of financial institution.
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Account at a financial institution, income, poorest 40% (% ages 15+)
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WP_time_01.8Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
DescriptionAccount at a financial institution denotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else) at a bank or another type of financial institution.
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Account at a financial institution, income, richest 60% (% ages 15+)
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WP_time_01.9Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
DescriptionAccount at a financial institution denotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else) at a bank or another type of financial institution.
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Account at a financial institution, male (% age 15+)
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WP_time_01.2Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
DescriptionAccount at a financial institution denotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else) at a bank or another type of financial institution.
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Account, female (% age 15+)
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WP_time_10.3Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
DescriptionDenotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else). For 2011, this can be an account at a bank or another type of financial institution, and for 2014 this can be a mobile account as well (see year-specific definitions for details) (female, % age 15+). [ts: data are available for multiple waves].
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Account, income, poorest 40% (% ages 15+)
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WP_time_10.8Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
DescriptionDenotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else). For 2011, this can be an account at a bank or another type of financial institution, and for 2014 this can be a mobile account as well (see year-specific definitions for details) (income, poorest 40%, % age 15+). [ts: data are available for multiple waves].
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Account, income, richest 60% (% ages 15+)
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WP_time_10.9Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
DescriptionDenotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else). For 2011, this can be an account at a bank or another type of financial institution, and for 2014 this can be a mobile account as well (see year-specific definitions for details) (income, richest 60%, % age 15+). [ts: data are available for multiple waves].
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Account, male (% age 15+)
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WP_time_10.2Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
DescriptionDenotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else). For 2011, this can be an account at a bank or another type of financial institution, and for 2014 this can be a mobile account as well (see year-specific definitions for details) (male, % age 15+). [ts: data are available for multiple waves].
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Account, older adults (% ages 25+)
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WP_time_10.5Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
DescriptionDenotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else). For 2011, this can be an account at a bank or another type of financial institution, and for 2014 this can be a mobile account as well (see year-specific definitions for details) (% age 25+). [ts: data are available for multiple waves].
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Account, primary education or less (% ages 15+)
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WP_time_10.6Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
DescriptionDenotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else). For 2011, this can be an account at a bank or another type of financial institution, and for 2014 this can be a mobile account as well (see year-specific definitions for details) (primary education or less, % age 15+). [ts: data are available for multiple waves].
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Account, secondary education or more (% ages 15+)
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WP_time_10.7Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
DescriptionDenotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else). For 2011, this can be an account at a bank or another type of financial institution, and for 2014 this can be a mobile account as well (see year-specific definitions for details) (secondary education or more, % age 15+). [ts: data are available for multiple waves].
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Account, young adults (% ages 15-24)
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WP_time_10.4Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
DescriptionDenotes the percentage of respondents who report having an account (by themselves or together with someone else). For 2011, this can be an account at a bank or another type of financial institution, and for 2014 this can be a mobile account as well (see year-specific definitions for details) (% ages 15-24). [ts: data are available for multiple waves].
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Adequacy of social insurance programs (% of total welfare of beneficiary households)
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per_si_allsi.adq_pop_totASPIRE: The Atlas of Social Protection - Indicators of Resilience and Equity, The World Bank. Data are based on national representative household surveys. (datatopics.worldbank.org/aspire/)
DescriptionAdequacy of social insurance programs is measured by the total transfer amount received by the population participating in social insurance programs as a share of their total welfare. Welfare is defined as the total income or total expenditure of beneficiary households. Social insurance programs include old age contributory pensions (including survivors and disability) and social security and health insurance benefits (including occupational injury benefits, paid sick leave, maternity and other social insurance). Estimates include both direct and indirect beneficiaries.
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Adequacy of social protection and labor programs (% of total welfare of beneficiary households)
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per_allsp.adq_pop_totASPIRE: The Atlas of Social Protection - Indicators of Resilience and Equity, The World Bank. Data are based on national representative household surveys. (datatopics.worldbank.org/aspire/)
DescriptionAdequacy of social protection and labor programs (SPL) is measured by the total transfer amount received by the population participating in social insurance, social safety net, and unemployment benefits and active labor market programs as a share of their total welfare. Welfare is defined as the total income or total expenditure of beneficiary households. Estimates include both direct and indirect beneficiaries.
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Adequacy of social safety net programs (% of total welfare of beneficiary households)
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per_sa_allsa.adq_pop_totASPIRE: The Atlas of Social Protection - Indicators of Resilience and Equity, The World Bank. Data are based on national representative household surveys. (datatopics.worldbank.org/aspire/)
DescriptionAdequacy of social safety net programs is measured by the total transfer amount received by the population participating in social safety net programs as a share of their total welfare. Welfare is defined as the total income or total expenditure of beneficiary households. Social safety net programs include cash transfers and last resort programs, noncontributory social pensions, other cash transfers programs (child, family and orphan allowances, birth and death grants, disability benefits, and other allowances), conditional cash transfers, in-kind food transfers (food stamps and vouchers, food rations, supplementary feeding, and emergency food distribution), school feeding, other social assistance programs (housing allowances, scholarships, fee waivers, health subsidies, and other social assistance) and public works programs (cash for work and food for work). Estimates include both direct and indirect beneficiaries.
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Adequacy of unemployment benefits and ALMP (% of total welfare of beneficiary households)
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per_lm_alllm.adq_pop_totASPIRE: The Atlas of Social Protection - Indicators of Resilience and Equity, The World Bank. Data are based on national representative household surveys. (datatopics.worldbank.org/aspire/)
DescriptionAdequacy of unemployment benefits and active labor market programs (ALMP) is measured by the total transfer amount received by the population participating in unemployment benefits and active labor market programs as a share of their total welfare. Welfare is defined as the total income or total expenditure of beneficiary households. Unemployment benefits and active labor market programs include unemployment compensation, severance pay, and early retirement due to labor market reasons, labor market services (intermediation), training (vocational, life skills, and cash for training), job rotation and job sharing, employment incentives and wage subsidies, supported employment and rehabilitation, and employment measures for the disabled. Estimates include both direct and indirect beneficiaries.
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Adjusted net enrollment rate, primary (% of primary school age children)
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SE.PRM.TENRUNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/). Data as of February 2020.
DescriptionAdjusted 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, female (% of primary school age children)
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SE.PRM.TENR.FEUNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/). Data as of February 2020.
DescriptionAdjusted 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)
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SE.PRM.TENR.MAUNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/). Data as of February 2020.
DescriptionAdjusted 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 national income (annual % growth)
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NY.ADJ.NNTY.KD.ZGWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionAdjusted net national income is GNI minus consumption of fixed capital and natural resources depletion.
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Adjusted net national income (constant 2015 US$)
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NY.ADJ.NNTY.KDWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionAdjusted net national income is GNI minus consumption of fixed capital and natural resources depletion.
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Adjusted net national income (current US$)
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NY.ADJ.NNTY.CDWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionAdjusted net national income is GNI minus consumption of fixed capital and natural resources depletion.
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Adjusted net national income per capita (annual % growth)
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NY.ADJ.NNTY.PC.KD.ZGWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionAdjusted net national income is GNI minus consumption of fixed capital and natural resources depletion.
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Adjusted net national income per capita (constant 2015 US$)
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NY.ADJ.NNTY.PC.KDWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionAdjusted net national income is GNI minus consumption of fixed capital and natural resources depletion.
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Adjusted net national income per capita (current US$)
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NY.ADJ.NNTY.PC.CDWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionAdjusted net national income is GNI minus consumption of fixed capital and natural resources depletion.
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Adjusted net savings, excluding particulate emission damage (% of GNI)
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NY.ADJ.SVNX.GN.ZSWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionAdjusted net savings are equal to net national savings plus education expenditure and minus energy depletion, mineral depletion, net forest depletion, and carbon dioxide. This series excludes particulate emissions damage.
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Adjusted net savings, excluding particulate emission damage (current US$)
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NY.ADJ.SVNX.CDWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionAdjusted net savings are equal to net national savings plus education expenditure and minus energy depletion, mineral depletion, net forest depletion, and carbon dioxide. This series excludes particulate emissions damage.
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Adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI)
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NY.ADJ.SVNG.GN.ZSWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionAdjusted net savings are equal to net national savings plus education expenditure and minus energy depletion, mineral depletion, net forest depletion, and carbon dioxide and particulate emissions damage.
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Adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (current US$)
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NY.ADJ.SVNG.CDWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionAdjusted net savings are equal to net national savings plus education expenditure and minus energy depletion, mineral depletion, net forest depletion, and carbon dioxide and particulate emissions damage.
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Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage (% of GNI)
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NY.ADJ.DCO2.GN.ZSWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods described in the World Bank's The Changing Wealth of Nations.
DescriptionCost of damage due to carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use and the manufacture of cement, estimated to be US$40 per ton of CO2 (the unit damage in 2017 US dollars for CO2 emitted in 2020) times the number of tons of CO2 emitted.
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Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage (current US$)
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NY.ADJ.DCO2.CDWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods described in the World Bank's The Changing Wealth of Nations.
DescriptionCost of damage due to carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use and the manufacture of cement, estimated to be US$40 per ton of CO2 (the unit damage in 2017 US dollars for CO2 emitted in 2020) times the number of tons of CO2 emitted.
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Adjusted savings: consumption of fixed capital (% of GNI)
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NY.ADJ.DKAP.GN.ZSWorld Bank staff estimates using data from the United Nations Statistics Division's National Accounts Statistics.
DescriptionConsumption of fixed capital represents the replacement value of capital used up in the process of production.
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Adjusted savings: consumption of fixed capital (current US$)
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NY.ADJ.DKAP.CDWorld Bank staff estimates using data from the United Nations Statistics Division's National Accounts Statistics.
DescriptionConsumption of fixed capital represents the replacement value of capital used up in the process of production.
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Adjusted savings: education expenditure (% of GNI)
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NY.ADJ.AEDU.GN.ZSWorld Bank staff estimates using data from the United Nations Statistics Division's Statistical Yearbook, and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics online database.
DescriptionEducation expenditure refers to the current operating expenditures in education, including wages and salaries and excluding capital investments in buildings and equipment.
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Adjusted savings: education expenditure (current US$)
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NY.ADJ.AEDU.CDWorld Bank staff estimates using data from the United Nations Statistics Division's Statistical Yearbook, and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics online database.
DescriptionEducation expenditure refers to the current operating expenditures in education, including wages and salaries and excluding capital investments in buildings and equipment.
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Adjusted savings: energy depletion (% of GNI)
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NY.ADJ.DNGY.GN.ZSWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionEnergy depletion is the ratio of the value of the stock of energy resources to the remaining reserve lifetime (capped at 25 years). It covers coal, crude oil, and natural gas.
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Adjusted savings: energy depletion (current US$)
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NY.ADJ.DNGY.CDWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionEnergy depletion is the ratio of the value of the stock of energy resources to the remaining reserve lifetime (capped at 25 years). It covers coal, crude oil, and natural gas.
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Adjusted savings: gross savings (% of GNI)
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NY.ADJ.ICTR.GN.ZSWorld Bank national accounts data files.
DescriptionGross savings are the difference between gross national income and public and private consumption, plus net current transfers.
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Adjusted savings: mineral depletion (% of GNI)
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NY.ADJ.DMIN.GN.ZSWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionMineral depletion is the ratio of the value of the stock of mineral resources to the remaining reserve lifetime (capped at 25 years). It covers tin, gold, lead, zinc, iron, copper, nickel, silver, bauxite, and phosphate.
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Adjusted savings: mineral depletion (current US$)
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NY.ADJ.DMIN.CDWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionMineral depletion is the ratio of the value of the stock of mineral resources to the remaining reserve lifetime (capped at 25 years). It covers tin, gold, lead, zinc, iron, copper, nickel, silver, bauxite, and phosphate.
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Adjusted savings: natural resources depletion (% of GNI)
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NY.ADJ.DRES.GN.ZSWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionNatural resource depletion is the sum of net forest depletion, energy depletion, and mineral depletion. Net forest depletion is unit resource rents times the excess of roundwood harvest over natural growth. Energy depletion is the ratio of the value of the stock of energy resources to the remaining reserve lifetime (capped at 25 years). It covers coal, crude oil, and natural gas. Mineral depletion is the ratio of the value of the stock of mineral resources to the remaining reserve lifetime (capped at 25 years). It covers tin, gold, lead, zinc, iron, copper, nickel, silver, bauxite, and phosphate.
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Adjusted savings: net forest depletion (% of GNI)
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NY.ADJ.DFOR.GN.ZSWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionNet forest depletion is calculated as the product of unit resource rents and the excess of roundwood harvest over natural growth.
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Adjusted savings: net forest depletion (current US$)
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NY.ADJ.DFOR.CDWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionNet forest depletion is calculated as the product of unit resource rents and the excess of roundwood harvest over natural growth.
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Adjusted savings: net national savings (% of GNI)
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NY.ADJ.NNAT.GN.ZSWorld Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
DescriptionNet national savings are equal to gross national savings less the value of consumption of fixed capital.
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