Infant mortality rate (deaths/1,000 live births)chart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Definition of Infant mortality rate: This entry gives the number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in the same year. This rate is often used as an indicator of the level of health in a country. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Life expectancy at birth (years)chart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Definition of Life expectancy at birth: This entry contains the average number of years to be lived by a group of people born in the same year, if mortality at each age remains constant in the future. Life expectancy at birth is also a measure of overall quality of life in a country and summarizes the mortality at all ages. It can also be thought of as indicating the potential return on investment in human capital and is necessary for the calculation of various actuarial measures. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GDP (purchasing power parity) (Billion $)chart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Definition of GDP (purchasing power parity): This entry gives the gross domestic product (GDP) or value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year. A nation's GDP at purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates is the sum value of all goods and services produced in the country valued at prices prevailing in the United States in the year noted. This is the measure most economists prefer when looking at per-capita welfare and when comparing living conditions or use of resources across countries. The measure is difficult to compute, as a US dollar value has to be assigned to all goods and services in the country regardless of whether these goods and services have a direct equivalent in the United States (for example, the value of an ox-cart or non-US military equipment); as a result, PPP estimates for some countries are based on a small and sometimes different set of goods and services. In addition, many countries do not formally participate in the World Bank's PPP project that calculates these measures, so the resulting GDP estimates for these countries may lack precision. For many developing countries, PPP-based GDP measures are multiples of the official exchange rate (OER) measure. The differences between the OER- and PPP-denominated GDP values for most of the wealthy industrialized countries are generally much smaller. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GDP - real growth rate (%)chart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Definition of GDP - real growth rate: This entry gives GDP growth on an annual basis adjusted for inflation and expressed as a percent. The growth rates are year-over-year, and not compounded. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GDP - per capita (PPP) (US$)chart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Definition of GDP - per capita (PPP): This entry shows GDP on a purchasing power parity basis divided by population as of 1 July for the same year. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of December 1, 2020
