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2015 was a year of major milestones, emerging trends, and new beginnings. Among other things, 2015 marked a historic drop in poverty, a major climate change agreement, and record low child and maternal mortality rates. Take a look at what the data show: ( data, statistics and graphs available) 1. The Global Poverty Rate Fell below 10% 2. The World Reached an Accord on Climate Change …

The dataset presents estimates of international migrant by age, sex and origin. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population. International migrant stock (Total international migrant stock, By age and sex, By…

The Gender Data Portal is the World Bank Group’s comprehensive source for the latest sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics covering demography, education, health, economic opportunities, public life and decision-making, and agency. The database is updated four times a year (April, July, September, and December). The Gender Data Portal enables you to: Access time-series gender data by…

FAOSTAT provides time-series and cross sectional data relating to food and agriculture for some 200 countries. The national version of FAOSTAT, CountrySTAT, is being developed and implemented in a number of target countries, primarily in sub-saharan Africa. It will offer a two-way data exchange facility between countries and FAO as well as a facility to store data at the national and sub…

WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals. Search over 500 million pages with just one query: •important science information across every inhabited continent in fields such as energy, medicine, agriculture, environment, and basic sciences. • Simultaneously explore a multitude of nationally sponsored…

BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library. As the open access movement grows and prospers, more and more repository servers come into being which use the "Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting" (OAI-PMH) for providing their contents. BASE collects,…