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Find a country to see its key indicators over time and their sources.
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Indicators- Access to electricity (% of population)Energy · % of population
- GDP per capita, current US$Economy & Finance · current US$
- Life expectancy at birth, totalHealth · years
- Median agePopulation & Society · years
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Each indicator compares both countries within the same source series, unit, period type and reference period.
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How to read this indicator →Understand which questions a number answers and which it does not.
- What GDP per capita can and cannot tell you
Distinguish current-dollar GDP per capita from income, purchasing power and real growth when comparing countries.
- Why fertility, population growth and median age differ
Read population indicators together while distinguishing size, change, age structure and mortality.
- How to read country comparisons, rankings and Radar
Understand common periods, raw differences, ranks and percentiles without treating them as an overall score.