Statistics for Small States : A Supplement to the World Development Indicators 2009

World Bank

Washington, DC

关键词: ADULT LITERACY;    ADULT MORTALITY;    AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION;    ARABLE LAND;    ASYLUM;   

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学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

In 2000 the World Bank made a corporatecommitment to organize a small states Forum each year in thecontext of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and WorldBank annual meetings. The forum is intended to raise theprofile of small states issues and provide an opportunityfor small state officials to bring their views and ideas tothe attention of the international community. Forty-eightWorld Bank members comprise the small states forum, all butfive having populations below 1.5 million. These countriesare all included in the World Development Indicatorsdatabase, but countries with populations of less than onemillion do not appear in the main tables of the printpublication. To better serve this important segment of theBank's membership and to help highlight the challengesthey face, this special supplement to the World DevelopmentIndicators (WDI) has been produced, covering criticaldevelopment factors. The data in this supplement cover 40members of the small states forum excluding the high-incomecountries of Bahrain, Brunei Darussalam, Cyprus, Estonia,Iceland, Malta, Qatar, and San Marino.