Global Health: Statistics (GEHIG)

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Contents 1 NGO Annual reports 2 Global Health Indicators 3 AID 4 Economic Indicators 4.1 Stock Markets 5 Other Stats

NGO Annual reports

• OXFAM, International Council of the Red Cross, Red Crescent, Save the Children, World Food Program, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

Global Health Indicators

• MMR, Under 5 Child mortality, Life expectancy
• Leading causes of Mortality and BoD by region, gender and age group (Source: WHO Annual report statistical annex)
• Global poverty stats for the century (which supposedly show a drop until the 80s then a rise)
• Human Development Index
• AIDS
• Infectious disease

AID

• Budgets (total and important subdivisions) for WHO, UN, UNICEF, UNESCO, WB, IMF, Governmental Aid (world totals are fine if you can't find numbers for specific countries)

Economic Indicators

• GDP, GNP, Purchasing Power, Inflation (Basically I need regional & national economic indicators over years. All you need to do is find the best sources where these numbers can be found. I am specially interested in measures besides the GNP/GDP but lacking an economic background I am not sure what exactly I need, so use your judgment and basically find out what is out there)
  • World Development Reports (WRD), World Bank
    • See "Selected World Development Indicators" under "Selected Indicators"
    • Covers GNP, income distribution,GDP and structure of output
  • Look for: mortality rates, undernourishment, illiteracy, unemployment,
• Human Development Index (Source, top 10, bottom 10, link to description of how it's calculated)
  • United Nations Development Program Human Development Reports, including life expectancy at birth, adult literacy rate, combined gross enrollment for primary, secondary and tertiary schools, GDP, and overall human development index; HDI trends over time; Human Poverty Index
    • Global Reports
      • Human Development Indicators, 2004 Report
        • Ten highest ranking countries(HDI, 2002)
        • 1) Norway
        • 2) Sweden
        • 3) Australia
        • 4) Canada
        • 5) Netherlands
        • 6) Belgium
        • 7) Iceland
        • 8) United States
        • 9) Japan
        • 10) Ireland
        • Ten lowest ranking countries, from lowest to highest (HDI, 2002)
        • 177) Sierra Leone
        • 176) Niger
        • 175) Burkina Faso
        • 174) Mali
        • 173) Burundi
        • 172) Guinea-Bissau
        • 171) Mozanbique
        • 170) Ethiopia
        • 169) Central African Republic
        • 168) Congo, Dem. Rep. of the

• About HDR Statistics
• Composite indices- HDI and beyond

• domestic agricultural subsidies in developed countries
• For a good description of trade in agriculture, see Trebilcok, Michael J. and Howse, Robert. The Regulation of International Trade, Chapter 10. Routledge, New York, NY: 1999.

Stock Markets

• Quantifications of capital flows (with comparisons to sensible base rates/world or regional totals, rates of flow etc.) "Financial Contagion" (See G-24 pulication)
• Documentation of effects of capital flight facilitated through stock markets

Other Stats

• Small arms sales and profits, sources & buyers
  • US, UK, France, Switzerland
• Pharmaceutical sales, profits, sources & buyers