World Bank: Africa Development Indicators

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Year Joined PERii
2006

Resource Name
ADI Online

Resource Type
Online data source

Access URL
See the new, free of charge portal http://data.worldbank.org

Title Listing
See ADI Online List of Time Indicators
Document ADI Indicators (123kb)

Content Overview
Africa Development Indicators provides the most comprehensive collection of data on Africa available. It contains data for over 1,400 statistical indicators and time series from 1965 for 53 countries. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, infrastructure, governance, partnership, and environmental indicators.

Africa Development Indicators Online includes the most up-to-date data on Africa and incorporates many useful features. 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 Africa Development Indicators Online the most useful tool yet for researching development data on Africa. In addition to the valuable data, each year Africa Development Indicators Online also brings an essay on a key topic for Africa.

Designed to provide all those interested in Africa with a focused and convenient set of data monitoring development programs and aid flows in the region, Africa Development Indicators Online is an invaluable reference tool for analysts and policymakers who want better understanding of the economic and social developments occurring in the region.

Subject Strengths
Data includes:

  • Basic indicators
  • National accounts
  • Millennium Development Goals
  • Private Sector Development
  • Paris Declaration Indicators
  • Trade
  • Infrastructure
  • Human development
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Labor, migration, and population
  • HIV/AIDS and malaria
  • Capable states and partnership
  • Household welfare

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.

Usage Guides
Runs on the same platform with WDI and GDF Online and has all the same functionalities. Contact onlineresources@worldbank.org with questions.

Registration Information 
Available free of charge, no registration is necessary

Access Information
Access by automatic IP address recognition.

Publisher Support/Help Contact
onlineresources@worldbank.org; pubrights@worldbank.org

URL to General Publisher Site
http://publications.worldbank.org/

Further Information from your Country Coordinator
The details for your country coordinator can be found on your country page. Please use the 'Country Finder on the right-hand side of this page.

Information for Librarians

Promotional Information/Materials
ADI online brochure (Document 193kb)

Publisher Newsletter Details
Visit the World Bank newsletter page to subscribe.

Usage Data Collection
Librarians and country coordinators are able to download user statistics for ADI online by using their World Bank customer ID. Please click on the "Info" button to get detailed instructions.

If you do not know your customer ID, please contact onlineresources@worldbank.org

PERii FAQs
To find the answer to the most commonly asked questions about registration and access, see the Information resources FAQ page.

PERii Help Documents
Please see the online Help Documents for further information about INASP policy on username and password access, Registration, Registration record keeping, Downloading from publishers websites, Access issues and Statistics.

Publisher FAQs
Q1. What are the differences between ADI and WDI Online?

  • 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 informtion is available on the World Bank website).
  • It also has the household survey data.

Q2. How many ADI Online indicators are overed in WDI Online?
ADI Online has 1001 indictors, 538 of which are included in WDI Online and 463 that are not in WDI Online.

 

Available free of charge, no registration is necessary

 

Available free of charge, no registration is necessary

 

Available free of charge, no registration is necessary