The World Bank gathers and shares a wide range of social and economic measures of development data to improve understanding of the challenges faced in each of the countries it assists. Fast Facts | Indicator Summaries | Development Topics | Lending | Regional Debt Indicator Summaries
 Latin America and the Caribbean Millennium Development Goals: The Millennium Development Goals set targets for reductions in poverty, improvements in health and education, and protection of the environment. Map of the MDGs
Latin America and the Caribbean Data Profile: The profile provides data for cross-country comparisons, from the World Development Indicators 2006. (Note, the data profile may not always present the same information as the Data at-a-Glance tables below)
Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Data (65kb pdf): This regional fact sheet provides key comparative indicators on topics such as demographics, income, education, and health, as well as an overview of macroeconomic conditions, growth, the environment, and progress towards the Millennium Development Goals. From the World Development Indicators 2007. International Comparison Program-Latin America (154kb pdf): This report presents data on household consumption in 10 Latin American countries in 2006. From the International Comparison Program. Back to top
Development Topics
Private Participation in Infrastructure: Data on projects in the energy, telecommunications, transport, and water and sewerage sectors.
Information/ Communications/ Telecommunications: Information on ICT access and infrastructure, computers, the internet, expenditures, and the business environment.
Gender: A summary of gender indicators, basic demographic data, population dynamics, and labor-force structure.
Health Nutrition Population Statistics: A summary of indicators on health issues.
Education Statistics: Data on key education topics.
Investment Climate Snapshot: Summaries of the cost of doing business, based on an assessment of regulations or practices that enhance or constrain business investment, productivity, and growth. Key indicators include entry regulations, contract enforcement, credit markets, and bankruptcy.
Knowledge Economy Benchmarking.The Knowledge Assessment Methodology is an interactive database that provides more than 80 structural and qualitative variables to measure countries' performance on the four Knowledge Economy (KE) pillars: Economic Incentive and Institutional Regime, Education, Innovation, and Information and Communications Technologies. Back to top
Lending
World Bank Lending to Borrowers in Latin America and the Caribbean: This table from the Annual Report 2007 shows borrowing by Theme and Sector from fiscal years 2001-2006.
Latin America and the Caribbean: IBRD and IDA Lending by Theme and Sector, Fiscal 2006 Regional Debt
World Bank Debt Service: Information regarding debt service repayments for World Bank loans and/or credits.
National External Debt: Information about total external debt (joint debt owed to the OECD, Bank for International Settlements, International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.) |
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