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Dated national indicators, country comparisons and a research desk for locally accountable profiles.

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Statistical profiles and local authorship

The data desk publishes dated World Bank observations for 217 countries and economies. It offers comparable units, exact observation years, original-producer metadata, source links and exportable research briefs. These statistical pages are not locally coauthored narratives and do not claim to identify a country’s priorities.

A full narrative profile still needs people living there to shape the question, challenge the interpretation and identify missing voices. The private worksheet prepares that work without inventing it.

A reproducible snapshot

Five indicators cover population, life expectancy, under-five mortality, electricity access and basic drinking water. Each country uses the latest non-empty observation within 2020–2025. Missing values remain unknown. No composite need score, charity ranking or global funding estimate is inferred.

Country data desk

Search 217 countries and economies. This is a reproducible statistical snapshot, not a locally authored needs assessment or a list of places to donate. Observations may have different years. Missing data stays unknown.

Source: World Bank World Development Indicators and the original statistical producers linked below. Snapshot retrieved 2026-10-25; latest non-empty observations in 2020–2025. Rounded only for display; exports retain source values. National averages can hide differences within a country. No combined need score is calculated.

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Indicator definitions, original producers and retrieval links

Population

Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates.

The number of residents; not a measure of need.

World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division; Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices, National Statistical Offices (NSOs), uri: https://unstats.un.org/home/nso_sites/, publisher: National Statistical Offices; Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, Eurostat (ESTAT), uri: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database?node_code=earn_ses_monthly, publisher: Eurostat; Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), United Nations (UN), uri: https://unstats.un.org, publisher: UN Statistics Division

Exact API query · source updated 2026-10-08

Life expectancy at birth

Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.

A period estimate based on mortality patterns; not a prediction for an individual.

World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: UN Population Division; Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices, National Statistical Offices (NSOs), note: Derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices.; Demographic Statistics, Eurostat (ESTAT), note: Derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as Eurostat: Demographic Statistics.

Exact API query · source updated 2026-10-08

Under-five mortality

Under-five mortality rate is the probability per 1,000 that a newborn baby will die before reaching age five, if subject to age-specific mortality rates of the specified year.

A population rate, not the number of children who died.

UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: www.childmortality.org, publisher: UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, United Nations Population Division; World Health Organization (WHO), uri: www.childmortality.org, note: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation; World Bank (WB), uri: www.childmortality.org, note: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation; United Nations (UN), uri: www.childmortality.org, note: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, publisher: UN Population Division

Exact API query · source updated 2026-10-08

Access to electricity

Access to electricity is the percentage of population with access to electricity. Electrification data are collected from industry, national surveys and international sources.

Access does not establish reliability or affordability.

SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset, World Bank (WB), uri: https://trackingsdg7.esmap.org/downloads, note: Data is downloaded from ESMAP website. Data is released when a new Tracking SDG7 report is released., publisher: World Bank (WB), date accessed: 2024-05-16, date published: 2023

Exact API query · source updated 2026-10-08

At least basic drinking water

The percentage of people using at least basic water services. This indicator encompasses both people using basic water services as well as those using safely managed water services. Basic drinking water services is defined as drinking water from an improved source, provided collection time is not more than 30 minutes for a round trip. Improved water sources include piped water, boreholes or tubewells, protected dug wells, protected springs, and packaged or delivered water.

Basic service is not the same as safely managed water.

WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, World Health Organization (WHO), uri: washdata.org, publisher: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (washdata.org), date accessed: 2025-09-30, date published: 2025-08-25; UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: washdata.org, note: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene

Exact API query · source updated 2026-10-08