Globalization & Culture - SOAN 375 - Steindorf

Click on a country to see the facts and figures used to determine the UN's Human Development Index (HDI), the Inequality-Adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), the Gender Development Index (GDI), the Gender Inequality Index (GII), and the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI).

Note: As of Feb. 2021, this page is under revision; however, many features are still available.
"Social indicators covering a wide range of subject-matter fields are compiled by the Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, from many national and international sources." A good place to start is the "countries" tab, then select the country you'd like to explore.

Access World Bank's extensive data bank, grouped by country.

Development data from the World Bank and other international agencies. Because there are so many indicators available to choose from, try using the search box to find relevant indicators rather than browsing the whole list.

Provides gender statistics for European countries.

This gender data portal is a one-stop shop for gender information, catering to a wide range of users and providing data from a variety of sources. A good way to start is by selecting a country from the drop-down list (scroll past the regions to see the list of individual countries).

". . .includes more than 13,000 books, reports and papers reflecting the past and present research interests of ICRW."