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This article incorporates public domain material from The World Factbook. CIA . ^ "Field Listing :: Labor force - by occupation — The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency" .
The Open Knowledge Repository is the official open-access repository of the World Bank and features research content about development. [1] It was launched in 2012, [1] alongside the World Bank's Open Access Policy and its adoption of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license for all research and knowledge products that it publishes, which collectively made the World Bank the first ...
World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank’s premier compilation of international statistics on global development.Drawing from officially recognized sources and including national, regional, and global estimates, the WDI provides access to approximately 1,600 indicators for 217 economies, with some time series extending back more than 50 years.
Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN Percentage of workers in physically demanding jobs: 10.4% Total workers in physically demanding jobs: 104,147 Total workers across all jobs ...
Development economist Branko Milanović (writing for the World Bank), [3] development economist Morten Jerven, [5] [6] and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates [7] have identified the Maddison Project, the Penn World Tables, and World Bank/IMF data (the World Development Indicators), as the three main sources of worldwide economic statistics such as GDP data, with the focus of the Maddison ...
From 1980 to 2010, the global workforce grew from 1.2 to 2.9 billion people. According to a 2012 report by the McKinsey Global Institute, this was caused mostly by developing nations, where there was a "farm to factory" transition. Non-farming jobs grew from 54 percent in 1980 to almost 73 percent in 2010.
The US Treasury has committed $667 million for the World Bank's global Pandemic Fund, a third of the $2 billion the fund hopes to raise. [70] The Pandemic Fund, established in September 2022, is a collaborative initiative among countries, implementing partners, philanthropies, and civil society organizations.
The Human Capital Index (HCI) is an annual measurement prepared by the World Bank. [1] HCI measures which countries are best in mobilizing their human capital, the economic and professional potential of their citizens. The index measures how much capital each country loses through lack of education and health.