By World Bank
ISBN-10: 0821357298
ISBN-13: 9780821357293
ISBN-10: 1417515139
ISBN-13: 9781417515134
Global improvement signs, the realm Bank's revered statistical book, offers the most up-tp-date and actual info on international improvement on a countrywide point and aggregated globally. this knowledge permits readers to watch the growth made towards assembly the Millennium improvement targets recommended through the United international locations and its member international locations, the realm financial institution, and a bunch of companion companies in September 2001. The 400-page print version of worldwide improvement symptoms 2004 helps you to seek advice over eighty tables and greater than 800 symptoms for 152 economies and 14 nation teams, in addition to uncomplicated symptoms for yet another fifty five economies. There are key signs for the newest 12 months to be had, very important neighborhood info, and source of revenue team research. The document includes six thematic shows of analytical statement: international View, humans, atmosphere, economic climate, States and Markets, and worldwide hyperlinks. The CD-ROM version comprises forty years of time sequence info for greater than two hundred nations from 1960-2002, single-year observations, and spreadsheets on many subject matters. It comprises greater than 1,000 kingdom tables and the textual content from the area improvement signs 2004 print variation and the realm financial institution Atlas 2003. The home windows established layout permits clients to look for and retrieve facts in spreadsheet shape, create maps and charts, and entirely obtain them into different well known software program courses for learn or presentation reasons. facts is additionally on hand on-line on a subscription foundation.
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S. dollars unless otherwise noted. Soviet Union. The debt of the former Soviet Union is and the list on the front cover flap. Low- and middle- included in the Russian Federation data after 1992 income economies are sometimes referred to as > on the assumption that 100 percent of all outstand- developing economies. The use of the term is con- means more than. ing external debt as of December 1991 has become venient; it is not intended to imply that all economies a liability of the Russian Federation.
Improved sanitation services and good hygiene practices are also needed to reduce the risk of disease. A basic sanitation system provides disposal facilities that can effectively prevent human, animal, and insect contact with excreta. Such systems do not, however, ensure that effluents are treated to remove harmful substances before they are released into the environment. 5 billion people with access to safe water and 2 billion with access to basic sanitation facilities between 2000 and 2015. The world is rapidly urbanizing.
In high-income countries the rate was less than 7. For 70 percent of the deaths the cause is a disease or a combination of diseases and malnutrition that would be preventable in a high-income country: acute respiratory infections, diarrhea, measles, and malaria. Improvements in infant and child mortality have come slowly in low-income countries, where mortality rates have fallen by only 12 percent since 1990. Upper-middle-income countries have made the greatest improvement, reducing average mortality rates by 36 percent.