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The 2008 edition of the map, A Developing World, was
compiled in November and December 2007, and in January 2008, using
the most up-to-date information available at the time. But, the
world is constantly changing, and new reports come out every few
months.
Below you will find a list of the key sources used in creating
the map, and links to their websites. You may notice that the statistics
vary sometimes from site to site depending on the methodology used
or the date the site was last updated.
United Nations Development Programme
The principle source document for this map is United Nations Development
Programme’s (UNDP) Human Development Report 2007/2008 – Fighting climate change: Human solidarity
in a divided world, which came out in 2007.
We have used the UNDP’s Human Development Index (HDI) to show which
countries have achieved high levels of development and which countries
are still working toward improving the lives of their people. The
HDI is based on three aspects of human development: longevity (measured by life expectancy
at birth), knowledge (measured by a combination of adult literacy
and school enrolment), and standard of living (measured by GDP per
capita in PPP US$). For additional information, consult the HDI or
visit the UNDP website.
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Other sources
Other sources used in compiling the 2008 edition of this map have
been divided into main sources and additional sources as follows:
Main sources
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), The State of Food and Agriculture 2007.
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and World
Health Organization (WHO), AIDS
Epidemic Update: December 2007.
UNICEF, Monitoring the Situation of Children and Women: Statistics
by Area, www.childinfo.org,
[cited December 2007].
UNICEF, Progress
for Children: A World Fit for Children Statistical Review, No. 6,
December 2007.
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), 2004
Demographic Yearbook – Annuaire démographique:
Fifty-sixth issue/Cinquante-sixième édition, 2007.
United Nations, DESA, The
Millennium Development Goals Report 2007.
United Nations, DESA, World
Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision, 2007.
United Nations, DESA, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision
Population Database, http://esa.un.org/unpp/,
[cited December 2007].
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO), Education
for All Global Monitoring Report 2008 – Education for All
by 2015: Will we make it?, 2007.
The World Bank, Global
Monitoring Report 2007 – Millennium Development Goals:
Confronting the Challenges of Gender Equality and Fragile States.
World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, Meeting
the MDG Water and Sanitation Target: The Urban and Rural Challenge
of the Decade, 2006.
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Additional sources
FAO, The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2006.
Pan American Health Organization, Health
in the Americas 2007, Vol. 2.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Data Centre, Enrolment Ratios
by International Standard Classification of Education Level, Predefined
Tables, Table 5, http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/TableViewer/tableView.aspx?ReportId=182,
[cited December 2007].
UNICEF, The State
of the World’s Children 2007 – Women and Children:
The Double Dividend of Gender Equality, 2006.
United Nations Population Fund, State
of World Population 2007: Unleashing the Potential of Urban
Growth.
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Western
Pacific Country Health Information Profiles 2006 Revision.
WHO and UNICEF, Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and
Sanitation, Water and sanitation data query tool, www.wssinfo.org/en/watquery.html,
[cited December 2007].
The World Bank, World
Development Indicators 2007.
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photos: 1-Pierre
Vachon; 2-Stephanie
Colvey; 3, 4-Roger Lemoyne
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