Updated
27 May 2022
| Dataset date: January 01, 1961-December 31, 2021
This dataset updates: Every month
Contains data from the World Bank's data portal. There is also a consolidated country dataset on HDX.
The supply of labor available in an economy includes people who are employed, those who are unemployed but seeking work, and first-time job-seekers. Not everyone who works is included: unpaid workers, family workers, and students are often omitted, while some countries do not count members of the armed forces. Data on labor and employment are compiled by the International Labour Organization (ILO) from labor force surveys, censuses, establishment censuses and surveys, and administrative records such as employment exchange registers and unemployment insurance schemes.
Updated
27 May 2022
| Dataset date: January 01, 1960-December 31, 2020
This dataset updates: Every month
Contains data from the World Bank's data portal. There is also a consolidated country dataset on HDX.
Infrastructure helps determine the success of manufacturing and agricultural activities. Investments in water, sanitation, energy, housing, and transport also improve lives and help reduce poverty. And new information and communication technologies promote growth, improve delivery of health and other services, expand the reach of education, and support social and cultural advances. Data here are compiled from such sources as the International Road Federation, Containerisation International, the International Civil Aviation Organization, the International Energy Association, and the International Telecommunications Union.
Updated
27 May 2022
| Dataset date: January 01, 1960-December 31, 2021
This dataset updates: Every month
Contains data from the World Bank's data portal. There is also a consolidated country dataset on HDX.
Improving health is central to the Millennium Development Goals, and the public sector is the main provider of health care in developing countries. To reduce inequities, many countries have emphasized primary health care, including immunization, sanitation, access to safe drinking water, and safe motherhood initiatives. Data here cover health systems, disease prevention, reproductive health, nutrition, and population dynamics. Data are from the United Nations Population Division, World Health Organization, United Nations Children's Fund, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and various other sources.
Updated
27 May 2022
| Dataset date: January 01, 1960-December 31, 2021
This dataset updates: Every month
Contains data from the World Bank's data portal. There is also a consolidated country dataset on HDX.
An economy's financial markets are critical to its overall development. Banking systems and stock markets enhance growth, the main factor in poverty reduction. Strong financial systems provide reliable and accessible information that lowers transaction costs, which in turn bolsters resource allocation and economic growth. Indicators here include the size and liquidity of stock markets; the accessibility, stability, and efficiency of financial systems; and international migration and workers\ remittances, which affect growth and social welfare in both sending and receiving countries.
Updated
27 May 2022
| Dataset date: January 01, 1960-December 31, 2021
This dataset updates: Every month
Contains data from the World Bank's data portal. There is also a consolidated country dataset on HDX.
Natural and man-made environmental resources – fresh water, clean air, forests, grasslands, marine resources, and agro-ecosystems – provide sustenance and a foundation for social and economic development. The need to safeguard these resources crosses all borders. Today, the World Bank is one of the key promoters and financiers of environmental upgrading in the developing world. Data here cover forests, biodiversity, emissions, and pollution. Other indicators relevant to the environment are found under data pages for Agriculture & Rural Development, Energy & Mining, Infrastructure, and Urban Development.
Updated
27 May 2022
| Dataset date: January 01, 1960-December 31, 2021
This dataset updates: Every month
Contains data from the World Bank's data portal. There is also a consolidated country dataset on HDX.
The world economy needs ever-increasing amounts of energy to sustain economic growth, raise living standards, and reduce poverty. But today's trends in energy use are not sustainable. As the world's population grows and economies become more industrialized, nonrenewable energy sources will become scarcer and more costly. Data here on energy production, use, dependency, and efficiency are compiled by the World Bank from the International Energy Agency and the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center.
Updated
27 May 2022
| Dataset date: January 01, 1960-December 31, 2021
This dataset updates: Every month
Contains data from the World Bank's data portal. There is also a consolidated country dataset on HDX.
Education is one of the most powerful instruments for reducing poverty and inequality and lays a foundation for sustained economic growth. The World Bank compiles data on education inputs, participation, efficiency, and outcomes. Data on education are compiled by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics from official responses to surveys and from reports provided by education authorities in each country.
Updated
27 May 2022
| Dataset date: January 01, 1960-December 31, 2021
This dataset updates: Every month
Contains data from the World Bank's data portal. There is also a consolidated country dataset on HDX.
Economic growth is central to economic development. When national income grows, real people benefit. While there is no known formula for stimulating economic growth, data can help policy-makers better understand their countries' economic situations and guide any work toward improvement. Data here covers measures of economic growth, such as gross domestic product (GDP) and gross national income (GNI). It also includes indicators representing factors known to be relevant to economic growth, such as capital stock, employment, investment, savings, consumption, government spending, imports, and exports.
Updated
27 May 2022
| Dataset date: January 01, 1960-December 31, 2020
This dataset updates: Every month
Contains data from the World Bank's data portal. There is also a consolidated country dataset on HDX.
Aid effectiveness is the impact that aid has in reducing poverty and inequality, increasing growth, building capacity, and accelerating achievement of the Millennium Development Goals set by the international community. Indicators here cover aid received as well as progress in reducing poverty and improving education, health, and other measures of human welfare.
Updated
27 May 2022
| Dataset date: January 01, 1960-December 31, 2021
This dataset updates: Every month
Contains data from the World Bank's data portal. There is also a consolidated country dataset on HDX.
For the 70 percent of the world's poor who live in rural areas, agriculture is the main source of income and employment. But depletion and degradation of land and water pose serious challenges to producing enough food and other agricultural products to sustain livelihoods here and meet the needs of urban populations. Data presented here include measures of agricultural inputs, outputs, and productivity compiled by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.
Updated
24 May 2022
| Dataset date: September 01, 2016-April 01, 2018
This dataset updates: As needed
More than 200 million businesses use Facebook. Meta partners with various academic and international organizations to survey these businesses throughout the year to learn about their perspectives, challenges and opportunities. With more businesses leveraging online tools each day, these surveys provide a lens into a new mobilized and digital economy.
The Future of Business Survey (FoBS) is a collaboration between Meta, the OECD and the World Bank to provide timely insights on the perceptions, challenges, and outlook of online Small and Medium Enterprises or Businesses (SMEs/SMBs). The target population consists of SMEs that have an active Facebook business Page and include both newer and longer-standing businesses, spanning across a variety of sectors. The Future of Business Survey was first launched as a monthly survey in 17 countries in February 2016 and expanded to 42 countries in 2018. In 2019, the Future of Business survey increased coverage to 97 countries and moved to a bi-annual cadence. In 2020, the Future of Business Survey shifted to do additional monthly waves with questions focused on business challenges related to COVID-19.
Meta also shares information from other SMB surveys, such as those that feed into the Global State of Small Business Reports, which are fielded to active Facebook Page Administrators and the general population of Facebook users. These surveys are conducted in approximately 30 countries across the globe and are also conducted on a roughly bi-annual basis.
Survey questions for all surveys cover a range of topics depending on the survey wave such as business characteristics, challenges, financials and strategy in addition to custom modules related to regulation, gender inequity, access to finance, digital technologies, reduction in revenues, business closures, reduction of employees and challenges/needs of the business.
Aggregated country level data is available to the public here for each wave and controlled access microdata is available to Data for Good partners.
To request access to survey microdata or to see published Meta reports, please visit: futureofbusinesssurvey.org
Update 12/12/21: We have transitioned all small business survey datasets to have survey weights applied. Files with weighted estimates have now replaced the previously posted unweighted estimates.
Update 10/4/21: Aggregate data in files [gsosb_2021julyaugust_data_aggregate_weighted.csv] and [gsosb_2021february_data_aggregate_weighted.csv] have been updated to provide weighted results and to correct an error found in those two files. These files were discovered to present results for large businesses rather than small and medium businesses and have been updated to provide the information for the latter group. Downloads of these two files that took place between April 1 and September 30 2021 were affected and analysis using downloads from this period may need to be amended. No analyses or reports published by Facebook were affected.
Please contact dataforgood@fb.com for any questions.
Updated
Live
| Dataset date: January 18, 2020-June 28, 2022
This dataset updates: Live
'Our World in Data' is compiling COVID-19 testing data over time for many countries around the world. They are adding further data in the coming days as more details become available for other countries. In some cases figures refer to the number of tests, in other cases to the number of individuals who have been tested. Refer to documentation provided here.
Updated
12 April 2022
| Dataset date: April 07, 2022-April 07, 2022
This dataset updates: As needed
Belgium administrative division with aggregated population. Built from Kontur Population: Global Population Density for 400m H3 Hexagons on top of OpenStreetMap administrative boundaries data. Enriched with HASC codes for regions taken from Wikidata.
Gobal version of boundaries dataset: Kontur Boundaries: Global administrative division with aggregated population
Updated
14 January 2022
| Dataset date: September 21, 2020-September 21, 2020
This dataset updates: Every year
This data contains aggregated weighted statistics at the regional level by gender for the 2020 Survey on Gender Equality At Home as well as the country and regional level for the 2021 wave. The Survey on Gender Equality at Home generates a global snapshot of women and men’s access to resources, their time spent on unpaid care work, and their attitudes about equality. Researchers and nonprofits interested in access to survey microdata can apply at:
https://dataforgood.facebook.com/dfg/tools/survey-on-gender-equality-at-home
Updated
15 December 2021
| Dataset date: October 13, 2021-October 13, 2021
This dataset updates: As needed
We use an anonymized snapshot of all active Facebook users and their friendship networks to measure the intensity of connectedness between locations. The Social Connectedness Index (SCI) is a measure of the social connectedness between different geographies. Specifically, it measures the relative probability that two individuals across two locations are friends with each other on Facebook.
Details on the underlying data and the construction of the index are provided in the “Facebook Social Connectedness Index - Data Notes.pdf” file. Please also see https://dataforgood.fb.com/ as well as the associated research paper “Social Connectedness: Measurement, Determinants and Effects,” published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives (https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.32.3.259).
Region identifiers are taken from GADM v2.8 https://gadm.org/download_country_v2.html. Future versions will update IDs to be compatible with the newest GADM version.
Updated
Live
| Dataset date: January 01, 2019-June 30, 2022
This dataset updates: Live
Live list of active aid activities for Belgium shared via the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI). Includes both humanitarian and development activities. More information on each activity (including financial data) is available from http://www.d-portal.org
Updated
Live
| Dataset date: January 09, 2005-May 17, 2020
This dataset updates: Live
This dataset contains excess mortality data for the period covering the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.
The data contains the excess mortality data for all known jurisdictions which publish all-cause mortality data meeting the following criteria:
daily, weekly or monthly level of granularity
includes equivalent historical data for at least one full year before 2020, and preferably at least five years (2015-2019)
includes data up to at least April 1, 2020
Most countries publish mortality data with a longer periodicity (typically quarterly or even annually), a longer publication lag time, or both. This sort of data is not suitable for ongoing analysis during an epidemic and is therefore not included here.
"Excess mortality" refers to the difference between deaths from all causes during the pandemic and the historic seasonal average. For many of the jurisdictions shown here, this figure is higher than the official Covid-19 fatalities that are published by national governments each day. While not all of these deaths are necessarily attributable to the disease, it does leave a number of unexplained deaths that suggests that the official figures of deaths attributed may significant undercounts of the pandemic's impact.
Updated
3 August 2021
| Dataset date: January 01, 1970-December 31, 2019
This dataset updates: Every three months
Education indicators for Belgium.
Contains data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics bulk data service covering the following categories: National Monitoring (made 2021 March), SDG 4 Global and Thematic (made 2021 March), Demographic and Socio-economic (made 2021 March)
Updated
4 May 2021
| Dataset date: January 01, 1990-December 31, 2030
This dataset updates: Every year
The aim of the Human Development Report is to stimulate global, regional and national policy-relevant discussions on issues pertinent to human development. Accordingly, the data in the Report require the highest standards of data quality, consistency, international comparability and transparency. The Human Development Report Office (HDRO) fully subscribes to the Principles governing international statistical activities.
The HDI was created to emphasize that people and their capabilities should be the ultimate criteria for assessing the development of a country, not economic growth alone. The HDI can also be used to question national policy choices, asking how two countries with the same level of GNI per capita can end up with different human development outcomes. These contrasts can stimulate debate about government policy priorities.
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a summary measure of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living. The HDI is the geometric mean of normalized indices for each of the three dimensions.
The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.Jointly developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford, the 2019 global MPI offers data for 101 countries, covering 76 percent of the global population.
The MPI provides a comprehensive and in-depth picture of global poverty – in all its dimensions – and monitors progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 – to end poverty in all its forms. It also provides policymakers with the data to respond to the call of Target 1.2, which is to ‘reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women, and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definition'.
Updated
29 April 2021
| Dataset date: September 19, 2019-September 19, 2019
This dataset updates: As needed
The world's most accurate population datasets. Seven maps/datasets for the distribution of various populations in Belgium: (1) Overall population density (2) Women (3) Men (4) Children (ages 0-5) (5) Youth (ages 15-24) (6) Elderly (ages 60+) (7) Women of reproductive age (ages 15-49).
Updated
23 November 2020
| Dataset date: January 01, 2000-December 31, 2020
This dataset updates: Every year
WorldPop produces different types of gridded population count datasets, depending on the methods used and end application.
Please make sure you have read our Mapping Populations overview page before choosing and downloading a dataset.
Datasets are available to download in Geotiff and ASCII XYZ format at a resolution of 30 arc-seconds (approximately 1km at the equator)
-Unconstrained individual countries 2000-2020: Population density datasets for all countries of the World for each year 2000-2020 – derived from the corresponding
Unconstrained individual countries 2000-2020 population count datasets by dividing the number of people in each pixel by the pixel surface area.
These are produced using the unconstrained top-down modelling method.
-Unconstrained individual countries 2000-2020 UN adjusted: Population density datasets for all countries of the World for each year 2000-2020 – derived from the corresponding
Unconstrained individual countries 2000-2020 population UN adjusted count datasets by dividing the number of people in each pixel,
adjusted to match the country total from the official United Nations population estimates (UN 2019), by the pixel surface area.
These are produced using the unconstrained top-down modelling method.
Data for earlier dates is available directly from WorldPop.
WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton; Department of Geography and Geosciences, University of Louisville; Departement de Geographie, Universite de Namur) and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University (2018). Global High Resolution Population Denominators Project - Funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1134076). https://dx.doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/WP00674
Updated
23 November 2020
| Dataset date: January 01, 2000-December 31, 2020
This dataset updates: Every year
WorldPop produces different types of gridded population count datasets, depending on the methods used and end application.
Please make sure you have read our Mapping Populations overview page before choosing and downloading a dataset.
Bespoke methods used to produce datasets for specific individual countries are available through the WorldPop Open Population Repository (WOPR) link below.
These are 100m resolution gridded population estimates using customized methods ("bottom-up" and/or "top-down") developed for the latest data available from each country.
They can also be visualised and explored through the woprVision App.
The remaining datasets in the links below are produced using the "top-down" method,
with either the unconstrained or constrained top-down disaggregation method used.
Please make sure you read the Top-down estimation modelling overview page to decide on which datasets best meet your needs.
Datasets are available to download in Geotiff and ASCII XYZ format at a resolution of 3 and 30 arc-seconds (approximately 100m and 1km at the equator, respectively):
- Unconstrained individual countries 2000-2020 ( 1km resolution ): Consistent 1km resolution population count datasets created using
unconstrained top-down methods for all countries of the World for each year 2000-2020.
- Unconstrained individual countries 2000-2020 ( 100m resolution ): Consistent 100m resolution population count datasets created using
unconstrained top-down methods for all countries of the World for each year 2000-2020.
- Unconstrained individual countries 2000-2020 UN adjusted ( 100m resolution ): Consistent 100m resolution population count datasets created using
unconstrained top-down methods for all countries of the World for each year 2000-2020 and adjusted to match United Nations national population estimates (UN 2019)
-Unconstrained individual countries 2000-2020 UN adjusted ( 1km resolution ): Consistent 1km resolution population count datasets created using
unconstrained top-down methods for all countries of the World for each year 2000-2020 and adjusted to match United Nations national population estimates (UN 2019).
-Unconstrained global mosaics 2000-2020 ( 1km resolution ): Mosaiced 1km resolution versions of the "Unconstrained individual countries 2000-2020" datasets.
-Constrained individual countries 2020 ( 100m resolution ): Consistent 100m resolution population count datasets created using
constrained top-down methods for all countries of the World for 2020.
-Constrained individual countries 2020 UN adjusted ( 100m resolution ): Consistent 100m resolution population count datasets created using
constrained top-down methods for all countries of the World for 2020 and adjusted to match United Nations national
population estimates (UN 2019).
Older datasets produced for specific individual countries and continents, using a set of tailored geospatial inputs and differing "top-down" methods and time periods are still available for download here: Individual countries and Whole Continent.
Data for earlier dates is available directly from WorldPop.
WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton; Department of Geography and Geosciences, University of Louisville; Departement de Geographie, Universite de Namur) and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University (2018). Global High Resolution Population Denominators Project - Funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1134076). https://dx.doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/WP00645
Updated
9 September 2020
| Dataset date: January 01, 2018-December 31, 2018
This dataset updates: As needed
This dataset is compiled from two categories of sources: (a) verified security events submitted to Insecurity Insight by 30 Aid in Danger partner agencies; and (b) publicly reported events identified by Insecurity Insight and published in the Aid in Danger Monthly News Brief. Events are categorised by date, country, type of organisation affected and event category, based on standard definitions.
