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Worldbank data

The World Bank decided to open up and set its data free!

I have started importing some 167,000 series. This is mostly agricultural data. More coming soon. We now house more than 400,000 series in the site.

You can sample the series by looking at just one country.

Links:

Search for data about Switzerland (rich interface)

Search for data about Switzerland (HTML interface)

Books:

World Development Report 2010: Development and Climate Change

Series of interest:

Number of tractors in Switzerland

Arable land in Switzerland (hectares per person)

Leverage ratios in the US, Singapore and Japan

Tags: agriculture, data, Economy, worldbank

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