Regional Highlights World Development Indicators 2011

The primary completion rate for 7 countries-Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mozambique, and Niger-more than doubled between 1991 and 2009. Still large differences persist between rich and poor within countries. In some low-income...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	ACUTE RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS ADULT LITERACY ADULT MORTALITY AGRICULTURAL EMPLOYMENT AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AIR POLLUTION AIR POLLUTION RESULTING ALTERNATIVE ENERGY ANIMAL DUNG ANIMAL WASTES BALANCE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS BASIC SANITATION BIOMASS BIOMASS ENERGY BURNING FUEL CARBON CARBON DIOXIDE CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS CARBON ENERGY CHILD MORTALITY COAL CONTRACEPTIVE PREVALENCE CROP RESIDUES DEBT DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPING REGIONS ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC SHOCKS EMISSION EMISSION OF CARBON ENERGY PRICES ENERGY PRODUCERS ENERGY PRODUCTION ENERGY SOURCES ENERGY USE ENERGY USERS ENVIRONMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE EXTREME POVERTY FEMALE LIFE EXPECTANCY FEMALE PARTICIPATION FERTILITY FERTILITY RATE FEWER PEOPLE FEWER WOMEN FOOD IMPORTS FOOD PRODUCTION FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FOSSIL FOSSIL FUELS FUEL USE FUEL WOOD GENDER GAPS GENDER PARITY GREENHOUSE GREENHOUSE GAS GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS GREENHOUSE GASES GREENHOUSE GASSES GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HEALTH CARE HEALTH RISKS HIV HYDROPOWER IMMUNIZATION INCOME INCOME REGIONS INDOOR AIR POLLUTION INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LAND MANAGEMENT LEVELS OF EDUCATION LITERACY RATES LIVE BIRTHS LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MATERNAL HEALTH MATERNAL MORTALITY MATERNAL MORTALITY RATIO MATERNAL MORTALITY RATIOS MEASLES METHANE METHANE EMISSIONS MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOAL MORTALITY MORTALITY RATE MORTALITY RATES NATIONAL POVERTY NATIONAL POVERTY LINES NITROUS OXIDE NITROUS OXIDE EMISSIONS NUCLEAR ENERGY OIL OIL EQUIVALENT PER CAPITA ENERGY PER CAPITA ENERGY USE PER CAPITA INCOME POOR PEOPLE POVERTY RATES POVERTY REDUCTION PREGNANT WOMEN PRENATAL CARE PRIMARY SCHOOL PRODUCERS PROGRESS PUBLIC SERVICES REMITTANCE REMITTANCES REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE RETURN OF MIGRANTS RURAL AREAS RURAL POPULATION SAFETY NETS SANITATION SANITATION FACILITIES SECONDARY EDUCATION SECONDARY SCHOOL SECONDARY SCHOOLS SELF-ASSESSMENT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL PROTECTION TAX RATE TAX RATES TAX SYSTEMS TONS OF CARBON TUBERCULOSIS UNIVERSAL PRIMARY EDUCATION URBAN AREAS URBAN POPULATION URBANIZATION USE PER CAPITA VEHICLES WASTE WOMAN WORK FORCE WORKFORCE WORLD ENERGY YOUNG PEOPLE
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Summary:	The primary completion rate for 7 countries-Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ethiopia, Madagascar, Mozambique, and Niger-more than doubled between 1991 and 2009. Still large differences persist between rich and poor within countries. In some low-income countries, such as Benin, the completion rates for the richest quintile are 95 percent or higher, but completion rates for the poorest quintile are 35 percent or less. And there is a 9 percentage point gap in the completion rates for boys and girls. Many poor people depend on biomass energy from plant materials or animal wastes for cooking and heating. Millions of deaths are caused by air pollution. Many are children in developing countries, who die of acute respiratory infections due to indoor air pollution resulting from burning fuel wood, crop residues, or animal dung. The economies of Sub-Saharan Africa are gradually shifting towards industry and services. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Sub-Saharan Africa expanded by 4.7 percent in 2010, up from 1.7 percent in 2009. In the last five years Rwanda, Burkina Faso, Ghana, and Mali, ranked in the top ten of 174 of the world s countries in making their regulatory environment more favorable to business. Middle East and North Africa has made impressive gains in women s health and education outcomes. In 2008 the low-and middle income economies of Middle East and North Africa produced 53 percent more energy compared to their 1990 level, but they consumed 133 percent more energy and energy use per capita increased by 63 percent. Economic growth and rising labor productivity has reduced poverty in South Asia, home to half the world s poor people living below $1.25 a day. Information and communications technology services dominate the service exports of South Asia like no other region. Latin American and the Caribbean is the most efficient energy user in the world, measured by the ratio of GDP to energy use. The rapid emergence of East Asia as the world s export powerhouse was complemented by surging final demand within the region, notably in China. Taxes fund a broad range of social and economic programs, national defense, and other purposes such as redistributing income to the aged and unemployed.

Regional Highlights World Development Indicators 2011

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