World Bank: Africa Development Indicators
ADI Online notify
URL to platform/collection access
Institutions with IP access - http://ddp-xt.worldbank.org/ext/DDPQQ/member.do?method=getMembers&userid=1&queryId=175
Content/journal title listing
See ADI Online List of Time Series Indicators
World Bank ADI Online List of Indicators (85kb)
Resource type
Online Data source
Backfile information
Not relevant
Content
Africa Development Indicators is the premier data source on the African economy. It contains over 1,000 indicators and time series from 1965 for 53 countries.
Subject strengths
Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators.
It also brings an essay on a key topic for Africa, and this years’ theme is the long term growth challenges of the continent.
Service strengths
ADI Online includes the most updated data and useful features, including
• Results can be scaled, mapped, and charted.
• The mapping function will allow users to see the results in a map than can be resized and zoomed to the country level.
• These features plus data export options in standard formats such as Excel make ADI Online the most useful tool yet for researching development data on Africa.
Impact factors
N/A
Usage guides
Runs on the same platform with WDI and GDF Online and has all the same functionalities. Contact pubrights@worldbank.org with questions.
Registration
Each institution is required to register to use ADI Online. If you have not used this resource before you may need to check if your institution is registered and identify the contact person who has your access details. To do this, please go to the INASP registration system and select your country and institution.
Access information
Access by IP address recognition.
For help and support from the publisher please contact
pubrights@worldbank.org.
License
ADI license agreement can be viewed here
URL to general publisher site
http://publications.worldbank.org/
Post-subscription archival information
Subscribers are allowed to keep one copy of the statistical data for archiving purposes.
For further information please contact your country coordinator. For contact details use the country finder on the right hand menu and select your country.
The following information is most relevant for librarians
Administration details
Please notify pubrights@worldbank.org about any IP changes
Promotional information
A leaflet is available to download here World Bank ADI promotional information (28kb)
Usage data collection
Librarians and country coordinators are able to download their user statistics for ADI online by using their World Bank customer ID from http://www.worldbank.org/data/onlinedatabases/onlinedatabases.html. Click on the usage statistics link. Instructions are provided on the same page. If you do not know your customer ID, you should contact pubrights@worldbank.org for the number.
FAQs
Click here for the Frequently Asked Questions page. Provided by INASP, but the publisher may also include FAQs related to their resource if they choose.
Q1. What are the differences between ADI and WDI Online?
A1.
• ADI Online has data for all the African countries, including those with less than one million total population;
• it provides Africa-specific aggregates such as "North Africa" (the "NA" part of "MENA" with Djibouti), "Africa", "Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa", and "Sub-Saharan Africa excluding South Africa and Nigeria";
• it has the essay;
• it offers a MDG-specific chapter (WDI has the data, but not necessarily in such a format);
• it offers a time series-like presentation for national accounts and other macroeconomic statistics (1980, 1990, 1991, 1992,...);
• it presents the CPIA (IRAI-- IDA resource allocation index) for countries whose data may be released for 2005 and 2006 (more on that at http://go.worldbank.org/S2THWI1X60 )
• it also has the household survey data.
Q2. How many ADI Online indicators are covered in WDI Online?
A2. ADI Online has 1001 indictors, 538 of which are included in WDI Online and 463 that are not in WDI Online.