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World Water Day 2011: Water and Cities

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 17:16:40 +0000

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International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. The objective of World Water Day 2011 is to focus international attention on the impact of rapid urban population growth, industrialization and uncertainties caused by climate change, conflicts and natural disasters on urban water systems. This page provides an interactive visualization for easy viewing of latest and most relevant data on urban water and sanitaion management.

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How Moody's, S&P and Fitch Rate Each Country's Credit Rating

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:31:06 +0000

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This collection of interactive maps shows credit rating for each country.

What is Credit Rating?

A credit rating estimates the credit worthiness of an individual, corporation, or even a country. A credit rating is also known as an evaluation of a potential borrower's ability to repay debt, prepared by a credit rating agency (CRA). Credit ratings are calculated from financial history and current assets and liabilities. Typically, a credit rating tells a lender or investor the probability of the subject being able to pay back a loan.

What is Credit Rating Agency (CRA)

A credit rating agency (CRA) is a company that assigns credit ratings for issuers of certain types of debt obligations as well as the debt instruments themselves. In some cases, the servicers of the underlying debt are also given ratings.

Standard & Poor's, Moody's Investor Service and Fitch Ratings are the big three credit rating agencies. Moody's and S&P each control about 40 percent of the market. Third-ranked Fitch Ratings, which has about a 14 percent market share, sometimes is used as an alternative to one of the other majors.

Updated: Jan 2012

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Gender Inequality Index

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:07:42 +0000

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The Gender Inequality Index (GII) reflects women’s disadvantage in three dimensions—reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market—for as many countries as data of reasonable quality allow. The index shows the loss in human development due to inequality between female and male achievements in these dimensions. It ranges from 0, which indicates that women and men fare equally, to 1, which indicates that women fare as poorly as possible in all measured dimensions.

The health dimension is measured by two indicators: maternal mortality ratio and the adolescent fertility rate. The empowerment dimension is also measured by two indicators: the share of parliamentary seats held by each sex and by secondary and higher education attainment levels. The labour dimension is measured by women’s participation in the work force. The Gender Inequality Index is designed to reveal the extent to which national achievements in these aspects of human development are eroded by gender inequality, and to provide empirical foundations for policy analysis and advocacy efforts.

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Alternative and Nuclear Energy (Percentage of Total Energy Use)

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:09:50 +0000

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This map shows clean energy, expressed as a percentage of total energy use. Clean energy is noncarbohydrate energy that does not produce carbon dioxide when generated. It includes hydropower and nuclear, geothermal, and solar power, among others.

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Percentage of Insufficiently Active Population

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:49:18 +0000

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This map shows percentage of defined population(aged 15 or above; age-standardized estimate) attaining less than 5 times 30 minutes of moderate activity per week, or less than 3 times 20 minutes of vigorous activity per week, or equivalent.

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Mortality Due to Chronic Respiratory Diseases

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:07:35 +0000

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The above map shows the age-standardized estimate of mortality by Chronic respiratory diseases per 100,000 people.

Chronic respiratory diseases are chronic diseases of the airways and other structures of the lung. Some of the most common are asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), respiratory allergies, occupational lung diseases and pulmonary hypertension.

Chronic respiratory diseases were responsible for 4.2 million deaths globally in 2008.

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Firing Cost (Weeks of Wages)

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 23:50:47 +0000

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This map shows firing cost, which is the cost of advanced notice requirements, severance payments, and penalties due when terminating a redundant worker, expressed in weekly wages. One month is recorded as 4 1/3 weeks.

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Time to Prepare and Pay Taxes (Hours)

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:28:41 +0000

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This map indicates the time, in hours per year, it takes to prepare, file, and pay (or withhold) three major types of taxes: the corporate income tax, the value added or sales tax, and labor taxes, including payroll taxes and social security contributions.

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Ease of Doing Business - Rank

Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:38:42 +0000

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Thia map shows ease of doing business index, which ranks economies from 1 to 183, with first place being the best. A high ranking means that the regulatory environment is conducive to business operation. The index ranks the simple average of the country's percentile rankings on 10 topics covered in the World Bank's Doing Business. The ranking on each topic is the simple average of the percentile rankings on its component indicators.

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The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project - 2010

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:31:48 +0000

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The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 213 economies, for six dimensions of governance:

Voice and Accountability (Reflects perceptions of the extent to which a country's citizens are able to participate in selecting their government, as well as freedom of expression, freedom of association, and a free media.)
Political Stability and Absence of Violence (Reflects perceptions of the likelihood that the government will be destabilized or overthrown by unconstitutional or violent means, including politically-motivated violence and terrorism.)
Government Effectiveness (Reflects perceptions of the quality of public services, the quality of the civil service and the degree of its independence from political pressures, the quality of policy formulation and implementation, and the credibility of the government's commitment to such policies.)
Regulatory Quality (Reflects perceptions of the ability of the government to formulate and implement sound policies and regulations that permit and promote private sector development.)
Rule of Law (Reflects perceptions of the extent to which agents have confidence in and abide by the rules of society, and in particular the quality of contract enforcement, property rights, the police, and the courts, as well as the likelihood of crime and violence. )
Control of Corruption (Reflects perceptions of the extent to which public power is exercised for private gain, including both petty and grand forms of corruption, as well as "capture" of the state by elites and private interests.)

The aggregate indicators combine the views of a large number of enterprise, citizen and expert survey respondents in industrial and developing countries. The individual data sources underlying the aggregate indicators are drawn from a diverse variety of survey institutes, think tanks, non-governmental organizations, and international organizations.

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Global Hunger Index

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:05:05 +0000

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This map shows Global Hunger Index (GHI) for 122 developing countries.

The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a tool adapted and further developed by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to comprehensively measure and track global hunger. The GHI incorporates three interlinked hunger-related indicators - the proportion of undernourished in the population, the prevalence of underweight in children, and the mortality rate of children.

The GHI aims to raise awareness of regional and country differences in hunger and trigger action to eliminate hunger. Targeted at a wide range of audiences - including policy-makers, donors, non-governmental organizations, educators, the media, and the broader public - the GHI provides insights into the drivers of hunger and highlights successes and failures in hunger reduction.

The 2011 GHI has improved by slightly more than one-quarter over the 1990 GHI, but globally, hunger remains at a level categorized as “serious.” In addition to presenting the 2011 GHI scores, the report examines the issue of price spikes and excessive food price volatility, which have significant effects on poor and hungry people.

How is the Global Hunger Index calculated?

The GHI is based on a multidimensional approach to measuring and tracking hunger. It combines three equally weighted indicators:

The proportion of undernourished as a percentage of the population (reflecting the share of the population with insufficient dietary energy intake);
The prevalence of underweight in children under the age of five (indicating the proportion of children suffering from low weight for their age); and
The mortality rate of children under the age of five (partially reflecting the fatal synergy between inadequate dietary intake and unhealthy environments).

The multidimensional approach of the GHI offers several advantages. It captures various aspects of hunger in one index number, thereby presenting a quick overview of a complex issue. It takes account of the nutrition situation not only of the population as a whole, but also of a physiologically vulnerable group - children - for whom a lack of nutrients causes a high risk of illness, poor physical and cognitive growth, and death. In addition, by combining independently measured indicators, it reduces the effects of random measurement errors.

The index ranks countries on a 100-point scale, with 0 being the best score (no hunger) and 100 being the worst. Values less than 5.0 reflect low hunger, values between 5.0 and 9.9 reflect moderate hunger, values between 10.0 and 19.9 indicate a serious problem, values between 20.0 and 29.9 are alarming, and values of 30.0 or higher are extremely alarming.

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Adolescent Birth Rate

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:04:09 +0000

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This map shows adolescent birth rate, that measures the annual number of births to women 15 to 19 years of age per 1,000 women in that age group. It represents the risk of childbearing among adolescent women 15 to 19 years of age.

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World Marriage Data

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:42:09 +0000

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This group of interactive maps provides a comparable information on the marital status of the population, as well as the number of marriages and divorces for all countries and areas of the world.

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National/Iconic Animals around the world

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:12:27 +0000

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This interactive map shows National animals around the world.

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Worldwide Submarine Operators

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:36:06 +0000

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This map show countries that operate submarines for naval or other military purposes.

A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability.

Ballistic missile submarines are larger than any other type of submarine, in order to accommodate ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads.

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Global Median Age

Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:36:04 +0000

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This map shows the median age that divides a population into two numerically equal groups; that is, half the people are younger than this age and half are older. It is a single index that summarizes the age distribution of a population.

Currently, the median age ranges from a low of about 15 in Uganda to 40 or more in several European countries, Canada and Japan. The median age for females tends to be much greater than men in some of the ex-Soviet republics, while the opposite occurs in most countries in the Arabian Peninsula.

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Household Solid Fuel Use

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:59:14 +0000

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This Map shows the percentage of the total population that burn solid fuels in their households, primarily for cooking fuel. Solid fuels include coal or biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal, agricultural residues, and animal dung.

Worldwide, solid fuels are still the primary energy supply for many households, particularly rural poor households in developing countries. Combustion of solid fuels in traditional stoves causes high levels of indoor air pollution (IAP), emitting dangerous pollutants such as carbon monoxide and particulates. IAP from solid fuel use is therefore a serious health concern. Prolonged exposure to IAP can lead to acute lower respiratory infections, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and lung cancer. Women and children are most susceptible due to household roles.

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Total Length of the Road Network

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:16:17 +0000

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This map shows total length of the road network and includes the length of the paved and unpaved portions.

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Countries That Border Only One Other Country

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:39:37 +0000

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This map shows list of sovereign countries that border only one other country, with only land borders being counted.

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Countries Whose Capital is Not Their Largest City

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:45:55 +0000

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This map shows countries whose capital is not their largest city.

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Proportion of Land Area Covered by Forest

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:19:59 +0000

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This map shows proportion of forest area to total land area (expressed as a percentage).

Forest is defined in the Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Global Forest Resources Assessment as land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 metres and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ. It does not include land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban land use.

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