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The Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2008 is the flagship annual statistical data book of the Asian Development Bank. Key Indicators 2008 features statistical data for 48 regional members of the Asian Development Bank, including Australia, Japan, and New Zealand. Purchasing power parity data are included, as are social, financial, external trade, infrastructure, governance, and environment indicators. The book carries nontechnical commentaries on the Millennium Development Goals. For ease of understanding, regional tables are grouped under seven themes (people; economy and output; money, finance, and prices; international flows; infrastructure; government and governance; and energy and environment). Each theme is introduced by a short, nontechnical writeup highlighting some key developments since the 1990s.

This issue features:

• a special chapter on “Comparing Poverty Across Countries: The Role of Purchasing Power Parities”
• 17 tables for the Millennium Development Goals
• 103 regional tables
• 48 country tables (available on the accompanying CD-ROM) with 18-year time-series data on
  • population
  • price indexes
  • international reserves
  • labor force
  • money and banking
  • exchange rates
  • national accounts
  • government finance
  • external indebtedness
  • production
  • external trade
  • energy
  • balance of payments

Contents

• Foreword, Acknowledgments, Statistical Partners, and Guide for Users
• Key Indicators 2008 Special Chapter Highlights
• Part I: Special Chapter: Comparing Poverty Across Countries: The Role of Purchasing Power Parities
• Part II: Millennium Development Goals
  • Introduction to the Millennium Development Goals
  • Goal 1. Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger
    • Table 1.1: Target 1.A: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day
    • Table 1.2: Target 1.B: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, including women and young people
    • Table 1.3: Target 1.C: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger
  • Goal 2. Achieve Universal Primary Education
    • Table 2.1: Target 2.A: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
  • Goal 3. Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
    • Table 3.1: Target 3.A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education not later than 2015
  • Goal 4. Reduce Child Mortality
    • Table 4.1: Target 4.A: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
  • Goal 5. Improve Maternal Health
    • Table 5.1: Target 5.A: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio
    • Table 5.2: Target 5.B: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health
  • Goal 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
    • Table 6.1: Target 6.A: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
    • Table 6.2: Target 6.B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it
    • Table 6.3: Target 6.C: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases
  • Goal 7. Ensure Environmental Sustainability
    • Table 7.1: Target 7.A: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
    • Table 7.2: Target 7.B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in the rate of loss
    • Table 7.3: Target 7.C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
    • Table 7.4: Target 7.D: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers
  • Goal 8. Develop a Global Partnership for Development
    • Table 8.1: Target 8.D: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
    • Table 8.2: Target 8.F: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
• Part III: Regional Tables
  • Introduction to Regional Tables
  • People
    • Table 1.1: Mid-year population
    • Table 1.2: Growth rates in population
    • Table 1.3: Migration and urbanization
    • Table 1.4: Population aged 0–14 years
    • Table 1.5: Population aged 15–64 years
    • Table 1.6: Population aged 65 years and over
    • Table 1.7: Age dependency ratio
    • Table 1.8: Labor force participation rate
    • Table 1.9: Unemployment rate
    • Table 1.10: Unemployment rate of 15–24-year-olds
    • Table 1.11: Employment in agriculture
    • Table 1.12: Employment in industry
    • Table 1.13: Employment in services
    • Table 1.14: Poverty and inequality
    • Table 1.15: Human development index
    • Table 1.16: Life expectancy at birth
    • Table 1.17: Births, deaths, and reproduction
    • Table 1.18: Adult literacy rate
    • Table 1.19: Education resources
    • Table 1.20: Health care resources
  • Economy and Output
    • Table 2.1: Gross domestic product at PPP
    • Table 2.2: GDP per capita at PPP
    • Table 2.3: GNI per capita, Atlas method
    • Table 2.4: Agriculture value added
    • Table 2.5: Industry value added
    • Table 2.6: Services value added
    • Table 2.7: Private consumption expenditure
    • Table 2.8: Government consumption expenditure
    • Table 2.9: Gross domestic capital formation
    • Table 2.10: Exports of goods and services
    • Table 2.11: Imports of goods and services
    • Table 2.12: Gross domestic saving
    • Table 2.13: Resource gap
    • Table 2.14: Growth rates of real GDP
    • Table 2.15: Growth rates of agriculture real value added
    • Table 2.16: Growth rates of industry real value added
    • Table 2.17: Growth rates of services real value added
    • Table 2.18: Growth rates of real private consumption expenditure
    • Table 2.19: Growth rates of real government consumption expenditure
    • Table 2.20: Growth rates of real gross domestic capital formation
    • Table 2.21: Growth rates of real exports of goods and services
    • Table 2.22: Growth rates of real imports of goods and services
    • Table 2.23: Growth rates of agriculture production index
    • Table 2.24: Growth rates of manufacturing production index
  • Money, Finance, and Prices
    • Table 3.1: Growth rates of consumer price index
    • Table 3.2: Growth rates of food consumer price index
    • Table 3.3: Growth rates of wholesale/producer price index
    • Table 3.4: Growth rates of GDP deflator
    • Table 3.5: Growth rates of money supply (M2)
    • Table 3.6: Money supply (M2)
    • Table 3.7: Interest rate on savings deposits
    • Table 3.8: Interest rate on time deposits of 12 months
    • Table 3.9: Lending interest rate
    • Table 3.10: Yield on short-term treasury bills
    • Table 3.11: Domestic credit provided by banking sector
    • Table 3.12: Bank nonperforming loans
    • Table 3.13: Growth rates of stock market price index
    • Table 3.14: Stock market capitalization
    • Table 3.15: Official exchange rate
    • Table 3.16: Purchasing power parity conversion factor
    • Table 3.17: Price level indexes
  • International Flows
    • Table 4.1: Trade in goods balance
    • Table 4.2: Trade in services balance
    • Table 4.3: Current account balance
    • Table 4.4: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, receipts (US$ million)
    • Table 4.5: Workers' remittances and compensation of employees, receipts (percent of GDP)
    • Table 4.6: Foreign direct investment, total net (US$ million)
    • Table 4.7: Foreign direct investment, total net (percent of GDP)
    • Table 4.8: Merchandise exports
    • Table 4.9: Growth rates of merchandise exports
    • Table 4.10: Merchandise imports
    • Table 4.11: Growth rates of merchandise imports
    • Table 4.12: Trade in goods
    • Table 4.13: Direction of trade: merchandise exports
    • Table 4.14: Direction of trade: merchandise imports
    • Table 4.15: International reserves
    • Table 4.16: Ratio of international reserves to imports
    • Table 4.17: Official flows from all sources to developing member countries
    • Table 4.18: Net private flows a from all sources to developing member countries
    • Table 4.19: Aggregate net resource flows from all sources to developing member countries
    • Table 4.20: Total external debt of developing member countries (US$ million)
    • Table 4.21: Total external debt of developing member countries (percent of GNI)
    • Table 4.22: Total external debt of developing member countries (percent of exports of goods and services)
    • Table 4.23: Total debt service paid by developing member countries (US$ million)
    • Table 4.24: Total debt service paid by developing member countries (percent of exports of goods and services)
  • Infrastructure
    • Table 5.1: Road indicators
    • Table 5.2: Rail indicators
    • Table 5.3: Computer and broadband indicators
    • Table 5.4: Expenditures on information and communications technology
  • Government and Governance
    • Table 6.1: Fiscal balance
    • Table 6.2: Tax revenue
    • Table 6.3: Total government revenue
    • Table 6.4: Total government expenditure
    • Table 6.5: Government expenditure on education
    • Table 6.6: Government expenditure on health
    • Table 6.7: Government expenditure on housing and community amenities
    • Table 6.8: Doing business start-up indicators
    • Table 6.9: Corruption perceptions index
  • Energy and Environment
    • Table 7.1: GDP per unit of energy use
    • Table 7.2: Energy production
    • Table 7.3: Energy imports, net
    • Table 7.4: Agriculture land use
    • Table 7.5: Deforestation and pollution
• Part IV: Definitions
  • Country Tables
    • Afghanistan [ XLS
    • Armenia [ XLS ]
    • Australia [ XLS ]
    • Azerbaijan [ XLS ]
    • Bangladesh [ XLS ]
    • Bhutan [ XLS ]
    • Brunei Darussalam [ XLS ]
    • Cambodia [ XLS ]
    • China, People's Republic of [ XLS ]
    • Cook Islands [ XLS ]
    • Fiji Islands [ XLS ]
    • Georgia [ XLS ]
    • Hong Kong, China [ XLS ]
    • India [ XLS ]
    • Indonesia [ XLS ]
    • Japan [ XLS ]
    • Kazakhstan [ XLS ]
    • Kiribati [ XLS ]
    • Korea, Republic of [ XLS ]
    • Kyrgyz Republic [ XLS ]
    • Lao People's Democratic Republic [ XLS ]
    • Malaysia [ XLS ]
    • Maldives [ XLS ]
    • Marshall Islands [ XLS ]
    • Micronesia, Federated States of [ XLS ]
    • Mongolia [ XLS ]
    • Myanmar [ XLS ]
    • Nauru [ XLS ]
    • Nepal [ XLS ]
    • New Zealand [ XLS ]
    • Pakistan [ XLS ]
    • Palau [ XLS ]
    • Papua New Guinea [ XLS ]
    • Philippines [ XLS ]
    • Samoa [ XLS ]
    • Singapore [ XLS ]
    • Solomon Islands [ XLS ]
    • Sri Lanka [ XLS ]
    • Taipei,China [ XLS ]
    • Tajikistan [ XLS ]
    • Thailand [ XLS ]
    • Timor-Leste [ XLS ]
    • Tonga [ XLS ]
    • Turkmenistan [ XLS ]
    • Tuvalu [ XLS ]
    • Uzbekistan [ XLS ]
    • Vanuatu [ XLS ]
    • Viet Nam [ XLS ]