Data & Statistics Resources

Dataset:  World Bank Africa

Access Data:  The Ames Library - 2nd Floor Scholarly Workstations - The link is available on the computer desktops.

Description:  This year-by-year time series on Africa contains over 1,200 indicators of macro-economic, sectoral, and social data for 53 African countries and 20 regional country groups. It provides analysts data needed to help place the most recent years in a historical context and contains the Country at-a-Glance tables for all African countries, Excel based Executive Summary Briefings, and an electronic copy of the publication tables.

It provides all those interested in Africa with a focused and convenient set of data to monitor development programs and aid flows in the region.

Time period:  1970-1998/2000

For more details, see below.

Principal Investigator

Washington, D.C.: World Bank, c1999 - present

Documentation

A Help component is included in the software.

Data Format and File Storage

CD-ROM

Source of Data

World Bank