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Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking (% of population)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
EG.CFT.ACCS.ZS	WHO Global Health Observatory (https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/air-pollution/household-air-pollution)
Description	Access 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)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS	World Bank Global Electrification Database from "Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report" led jointly by the custodian agencies: the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Description	Access 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)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
EG.ELC.ACCS.RU.ZS	World Bank Global Electrification Database from "Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report" led jointly by the custodian agencies: the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Description	Access to electricity, rural is the percentage of rural population with access to electricity.
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Access to electricity, urban (% of urban population)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
EG.ELC.ACCS.UR.ZS	World Bank Global Electrification Database from "Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report" led jointly by the custodian agencies: the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Description	Access to electricity, urban is the percentage of urban population with access to electricity.
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Account (% age 15+)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
WP_time_10.1	Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
Description	Denotes 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+)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
WP_time_01.1	Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
Description	Account 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+)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
WP_time_01.3	Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
Description	Account 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+)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
WP_time_01.8	Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
Description	Account 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+)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
WP_time_01.9	Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
Description	Account 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+)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
WP_time_01.2	Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
Description	Account 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+)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
WP_time_10.3	Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
Description	Denotes 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+)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
WP_time_10.8	Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
Description	Denotes 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+)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
WP_time_10.9	Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
Description	Denotes 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+)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
WP_time_10.2	Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
Description	Denotes 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+)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
WP_time_10.5	Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
Description	Denotes 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+)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
WP_time_10.6	Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
Description	Denotes 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+)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
WP_time_10.7	Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
Description	Denotes 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)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
WP_time_10.4	Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2015, Global Financial Inclusion Database, World Bank.
Description	Denotes 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)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
per_si_allsi.adq_pop_tot	ASPIRE: 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/)
Description	Adequacy 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)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
per_allsp.adq_pop_tot	ASPIRE: 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/)
Description	Adequacy 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)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
per_sa_allsa.adq_pop_tot	ASPIRE: 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/)
Description	Adequacy 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)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
per_lm_alllm.adq_pop_tot	ASPIRE: 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/)
Description	Adequacy 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)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
SE.PRM.TENR	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, female (% of primary school age children)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
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	World Development Indicators
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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Adjusted net national income (annual % growth)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.NNTY.KD.ZG	World 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).
Description	Adjusted 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$)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.NNTY.KD	World Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
Description	Adjusted net national income is GNI minus consumption of fixed capital and natural resources depletion.
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Adjusted net national income (current US$)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.NNTY.CD	World 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).
Description	Adjusted 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)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.NNTY.PC.KD.ZG	World 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).
Description	Adjusted 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$)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.NNTY.PC.KD	World Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
Description	Adjusted net national income is GNI minus consumption of fixed capital and natural resources depletion.
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Adjusted net national income per capita (current US$)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.NNTY.PC.CD	World 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).
Description	Adjusted 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)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.SVNX.GN.ZS	World 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).
Description	Adjusted 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$)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.SVNX.CD	World Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
Description	Adjusted net savings are equal to net national savings plus education expenditure and minus energy depletion, mineral depletion, net forest depletion, and carbon dioxide. This series excludes particulate emissions damage.
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Adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (% of GNI)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.SVNG.GN.ZS	World Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
Description	Adjusted net savings are equal to net national savings plus education expenditure and minus energy depletion, mineral depletion, net forest depletion, and carbon dioxide and particulate emissions damage.
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Adjusted net savings, including particulate emission damage (current US$)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.SVNG.CD	World 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).
Description	Adjusted 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)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.DCO2.GN.ZS	World Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods described in the World Bank's The Changing Wealth of Nations.
Description	Cost of damage due to carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use and the manufacture of cement, estimated to be US$40 per ton of CO2 (the unit damage in 2017 US dollars for CO2 emitted in 2020) times the number of tons of CO2 emitted.
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Adjusted savings: carbon dioxide damage (current US$)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.DCO2.CD	World Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods described in the World Bank's The Changing Wealth of Nations.
Description	Cost of damage due to carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel use and the manufacture of cement, estimated to be US$40 per ton of CO2 (the unit damage in 2017 US dollars for CO2 emitted in 2020) times the number of tons of CO2 emitted.
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Adjusted savings: consumption of fixed capital (% of GNI)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.DKAP.GN.ZS	World Bank staff estimates using data from the United Nations Statistics Division's National Accounts Statistics.
Description	Consumption of fixed capital represents the replacement value of capital used up in the process of production.
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Adjusted savings: consumption of fixed capital (current US$)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.DKAP.CD	World Bank staff estimates using data from the United Nations Statistics Division's National Accounts Statistics.
Description	Consumption 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)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.AEDU.GN.ZS	World Bank staff estimates using data from the United Nations Statistics Division's Statistical Yearbook, and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics online database.
Description	Education 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$)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.AEDU.CD	World Bank staff estimates using data from the United Nations Statistics Division's Statistical Yearbook, and the UNESCO Institute for Statistics online database.
Description	Education expenditure refers to the current operating expenditures in education, including wages and salaries and excluding capital investments in buildings and equipment.
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Adjusted savings: energy depletion (% of GNI)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.DNGY.GN.ZS	World Bank staff estimates based on sources and methods in World Bank's "The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring Sustainable Development in the New Millennium" (2011).
Description	Energy depletion is the ratio of the value of the stock of energy resources to the remaining reserve lifetime (capped at 25 years). It covers coal, crude oil, and natural gas.
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Adjusted savings: energy depletion (current US$)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.DNGY.CD	World 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).
Description	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.
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Adjusted savings: gross savings (% of GNI)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.ICTR.GN.ZS	World Bank national accounts data files.
Description	Gross 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)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.DMIN.GN.ZS	World 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).
Description	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: mineral depletion (current US$)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.DMIN.CD	World 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).
Description	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: natural resources depletion (% of GNI)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.DRES.GN.ZS	World 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).
Description	Natural 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)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.DFOR.GN.ZS	World 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).
Description	Net 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$)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.DFOR.CD	World 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).
Description	Net 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)
Dimension	Series
Database Name	World Development Indicators
Code	Source
NY.ADJ.NNAT.GN.ZS	World 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).
Description	Net national savings are equal to gross national savings less the value of consumption of fixed capital.
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