Time Period: Before 1990, 1990 - 1995, 1996 - 2000, 2001 - 2005

Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia (former), Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Yugoslavia (former), Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Afghanistan, India, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Albania

Data Category: Macro Data

Data Type: Panel

Data Frequency: Other

Unit of Observation: Country

Number of Observations: 

Abstract: The data sets contain macro world data and population trends aggregated by country, more/less developed and by region.

Variables: Population, infant mortality and life expectancy, gdp per capita, GDP, literacy, population, phone lines and per capita, freedom, contestation, quality of life, FAO food security, unesco literacy, energy consumption, energy consumption per capita, energy production, energy production per capita.

Article/Working Paper: 

Funding Agency: 

Data Location: The Global Social Change Research Project

Data Access: Downloadable from other websites (follow link)

Link/Email: http://gsociology.icaap.org/dataupload.html

Cost: Free of Charge

Notes: Some of the data come from the US Census International Data Base or the US Energy Information Administration, but other are not public domain. A total of approx. 243 countries in data sets.

Date added: 11/7/2005