African countries have the lowest percentages of internet access within less developed world. Find these and other statistics in the Area Database of the Global Data Lab globaldatalab.org/areadata/maps/…; globaldatalab.org; #SDGs #InternetAccess UN Development UNDP Africa

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Larger age difference between husband and wife is an indication of higher gender inequality. Subsaharan African countries have among the highest figures for this indicator globaldatalab.org/areadata/maps/… UN Women #Gender

Level of education is higher in more urbanized provinces in Asia and Africa. On the Global Data Lab website you can construct graphs combining three indicators globaldatalab.org UNICEF UN Development #EducationForAll #education4all #educationmatters

Geospatial data on local government corruption. PLUS: granular proxies for subnational GDP, geospatial data on internet access, and more. Here's everything I wrote about last week:

The Global Data Lab has released an update of the Area Database. The Area Database contains data for a range of indicators for subnational regions in low- and middle-income countries UN Development UN Women United Nations Yohan Iddawela

The North Eastern Province has the lowest average wealth in Kenya. The Global DataLab offers the possibility to create Profile Reports for subnational regions within countries globaldatalab.org/areadata/profi… Afrobarometer #Africa The DHS Program UNICEF Data

Africans want more democratic governance than they’re getting. See Afrobarometer’s latest analysis in Good Authority: bit.ly/4dHdSsk. #VoicesAfrica #Democracy #AfrobarometerAt25

Improved crop yields have allowed us to feed billions more people while sparing forests and other land from agriculture. Global cereal yields have tripled since 1961. And as you can see in the chart, they have increased in all regions. However, yields across most African

The global gender pay gap affects women worldwide. Women earn only ❌73 cents in high-income countries ❌44 cents in low-income countries for every dollar earned by their male counterparts. 👉More from International Labour Organization: unwo.men/KIuk50SPjGJ #EqualPay

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The Global Data Lab offers many interesting opportunities for papers on low- and middle-income countries. Data range from a wide selection of provincial-level indicators to household wealth. Visit globaldatalab.org to see which data is available

The IWI is a subnational wealth index which, unlike other wealth indices, is comparable over time and between countries globaldatalab.org/iwi/

Stunting is an important health indicator. On the Global Data Lab website you can find this and other health related indicators for subnational regions Afrobarometer UN Development USAID globaldatalab.org

Who owns the #data? A question regularly raised. The recently released @LCRDM report ‘Data Sovereignty, Data Governance and Digital Sovereignty’ provides insight into this topic and offers tools and recommendations to navigate its complexity. Find it here👉edu.nl/gpwgy

Learn more about the 2023 Jordan Population and Family Health Survey key findings from this Adobe Express story: dhsdata.com/3T5GNyo #JPFHS2023 #JordanDHS

Rail travel is more prevalent in Japan than in Western Europe, and much more than in the United States. The chart shows how much people rely on rail versus road transport in 2021. The data comes from the OECD, and we recently updated our charts with the latest release. Japan

How many people faced hunger in 2023? All the latest data is available in #SOFI2024 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024: Financing to end hunger, food security and malnutrition, in all its forms Download YOUR copy of today👇 📙doi.org/10.4060/cd1254…

🗓️ We're less than 75 days away from the 5th UN World Data Forum in Medellín. The program is out & registration is open! Now follow along as we launch our #UNDataForum blog series with our first post from the United Nations Secretariat organizers. buff.ly/4cny2Xi

With the GDL Vulnerability Index you can determine vulnerability to climate change and disasters of provinces anywhere in the world. Visit globaldatalab.org/gvi/ to find out more globaldatalab.org UN Climate Change NASA Climate #Climate