Metadata record for World Tables of Economic and Social Indicators, 1950-1992 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License . 2013-05-22 World Tables of Economic and Social Indicators, 1950-1992 6159 10.3886/ICPSR06159.v1 World Bank. International Economics Department Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research 1993-12-18 World Tables of Economic and Social Indicators Series 1997-05-30 1997-05-30 These data are now available in ASCII format. The codebook has been revised to delete all references to EBCDIC. World Bank. International Economics Department. World Tables of Economic and Social Indicators, 1950-1992. ICPSR06159-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-05-11. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06159.v1 agriculture balance of payments currencies demographic characteristics economic indicators exchange rates foreign investments government expenditures government revenues Gross Domestic Product Gross National Product industry infant mortality labor force life expectancy manufacturing industry national debt population dynamics prices school enrollments service industry social indicators trade IDRC.VI IDRC.II ICPSR.XVI.B This study contains aggregate socioeconomic and demographic data for 189 countries in the period 1950-1992. Data are provided in both current and constant dollars for government revenues and expenditures, budget balance, gross national product (GNP), gross domestic product (GDP), private consumption, government consumption, government deficit or surplus, values of exports and imports, terms of trade index, long-term interest payments, net long-term loans, repayments on long-term loans, total external debt, net direct foreign investment, international reserves excluding gold, gold holdings at London market price, net workers remittances, government capital receipts and payments, money supply, consumer price index, gross domestic and national savings, food production per capita, and value-added in agriculture, industry, manufacturing, and services. Demographic and social variables include population characteristics such as the percentage of urban population, life expectancy at birth, infant mortality rate, total fertility rate, school enrollment rates, and the percentage of females enrolled in primary schools, as well as the percentage of the labor force in agriculture, and the percentage of the labor force that was female. 1950 1992 Afghanistan Algeria American Samoa Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Islands Bhutan Bolivia Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Channel Islands Chile China (Peoples Republic) Colombia Comoros Congo (Democratic Republic) Costa Rica Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Estonia Ethiopia Faroe Islands Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Gambia Georgia (Republic) Germany Ghana Gibralter Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Isle of Man Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea (North) Korea (South) Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Lithuania Luxembourg Macao Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Mali Malta Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mexico Moldova Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Norway Oman Pakistan Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Reunion Romania Russia Rwanda Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Sao Tome And Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa Spain Spratley Islands Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam (Socialist Republic) Virgin Islands of the United States Wake Island Wales Wallis and Futuna Western Samoa Yemen Yugoslavia Zambia Zimbabwe Global A total of 189 countries of the world in the period 1950-1992. aggregate data World Bank Economic and Social Data Division Most economic data for Germany refer to the Federal Republic of Germany before unification, while demographic and social data are for the unified Germany. 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