Area Database

The Area Database contains economic well-being and development indicators at the national and sub-national level for low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We combine survey data for over 500 recent (1990+) household surveys and other sources for 130+ developing countries and almost 1,500 subnational regions.

Education and Work

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Demographics

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Gender

Go to gender

Governance and Services

Go to governance

Health

Go to health

Wealth

Go to wealth

Archive Downloads

To download the old Area Data in Excel or CSV format, a free-of-charge registration with GDL is necessary. Registration takes less than 5 minutes. Sub-samples as well as complete datasets can be downloaded.

How to cite us

For data retrieved from the Area Database, please refer to both the data and the accompanying paper: