Wednesday, September 10, 2008

New reference book with historical economic/financial statistics

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International Historical Statistics; Africa, Asia and Oceania 1750-2005 is the latest edition of the most authoritative collection of statistics available.

It is available in our Reference collection at HG2 MITC (this means that you won't be able to take the book out, however, you can make photocopies)

Updated to 2005 wherever possible, it provides key economic and social indicators for the last 255 years, serving as an essential reference source.

Contents provides:

  • statistical data in easy to use tables
  • for the last 255 years (where available)
  • of every country in the African, Asian and Australiasian continents

Covering:

  • Population & Vital Statistics

Includes population of countries at enumerations, by sex and age groups, of major cities, vital statistics, international migrants

  • Labour Force

Includes economically active population, unemployment, industrial disputes, indices of wages/earnings

  • Agriculture

Main arable food crops; various foodstuff outputs; livestock, exports of various agricultural commodities

  • Industry

Includes coal , crude petroleum, natural gas and iron ore production; assembly of motor vehicles, imports & exports

  • External Trade

Includes aggregate current values, main trading partners and major commodity exports

  • Transport & Communication

Includes length of railway open lines, freight/passenger traffic on railways, merchant ships registered, motor vehicles in use, civil aviation traffic, postal/telegraph traffic, radio/tv sets in use

  • Finance

Includes currency/banknotes in circulation, demand deposits in commercial banks, savings, money supply, total central government expenditure,central government revenue (tax yields)

  • Prices

Includes wholesale and consumer price indices

  • Education

Includes number of children schools and higher education

  • National Accounts

Includes national accounts totals , proportions of GDP by sector of origin, balance of payments

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