Clio Infra
Clio Infra
The Clio Infra project: Clio Infra is a global network of economic historians who, inspired by Angus Maddison (an economic historian who collected and published data on historical global GDP), collect data on the different facets of the evolution of the world economy from 1500 to 2010.
Interesting datahub with 85 datasets. Primarily, historical cross-country time series on key socio-economic indicators e.g. life expectancy, education, inequality, gender etc. Looks like now in archival state (project completed in 2014?). Nice concepts/time-series graphs with concepts/whisker-plots.
About
The Clio Infra project: Clio Infra is a global network of economic historians who, inspired by Angus Maddison (an economic historian who collected and published data on historical global GDP), collect data on the different facets of the evolution of the world economy from 1500 to 2010. [https://clio-infra.eu/News_Publications.html]
In 2010, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) awarded a subsidy to the Clio Infra project, of which Jan Luiten van Zanden was the main applicant and which is hosted by the International Institute of Social History (IISH). Clio Infra has set up a number of interconnected databases containing worldwide data on social, economic, and institutional indicators for the past five centuries, with special attention to the past 200 years. These indicators allow research into long-term development of worldwide economic growth and inequality.
Global inequality is one of the key problems of the contemporary world. Some countries have (recently) become wealthy, other countries have remained poor. New theoretical developments in economics - such as new institutional economics, new economic geography, and new growth theory - and the rise of global economic and social history require such processes to be studied on a worldwide scale. Clio Infra provides datasets for the most important indicators. Economic and social historians from around the world have been working together in thematic collaboratories, in order to collect and share their knowledge concerning the relevant indicators of economic performance and its causes. The collected data have been standardized, harmonized, and stored for future use. New indicators to study inequality have been developed. The datasets are accessible through the Clio Infra portal which also offers possibilities for visualization of the data. Clio Infra offers the opportunity to greatly enhance our understanding of the origins, causes and character of the process of global inequality.
Data
Agriculture Cattle per Capita1500 [7456] 2010
Cropland per Capita1500 [6226] 2010
Goats per Capita1500 [7037] 2010
Pasture per Capita1500 [5963] 2010
Pigs per Capita1500 [6841] 2010
Sheep per Capita1500 [6835] 2010
Total Cattle1500 [7457] 2010
Total Cropland1500 [6191] 2010
Total Number of Goats1500 [7037] 2010
Total Number of Pigs1500 [6841] 2010
Total Number of Sheep1500 [6835] 2010
Total Pasture1500 [5928] 2010
Demography Composite Measure of Wellbeing1820 [3667] 2000
Female life Expectancy at Birth1750 [1058] 2000
Global Extreme Poverty (CBN)1820 [26069] 2018
Global Extreme Poverty (DAD)1820 [26069] 2018
Height1550 [1490] 2000
Height Gini1810 [678] 1980
Infant Mortality1810 [641] 2000
Life Expectancy at Birth (Total)1543 [12863] 2012
Male life Expectancy at Birth1750 [1058] 2000
Total Population1500 [3221] 2000
Total Urban Population1500 [1722] 2000
Urbanization Ratio1500 [1051] 2000
Environment Biodiversity - naturalness1500 [6120] 2010
CO2 Emissions per Capita1750 [1724] 2010
SO2 Emissions per Capita1850 [2079] 2000
Total CO2 Emissions1750 [16446] 2008
Total SO2 Emissions1850 [2079] 2000
Finance Exchange Rates to UK Pound1500 [15572] 2013
Exchange Rates to US Dollar1500 [11765] 2013
Gold Standard1800 [14359] 2010
Long-Term Government Bond Yield1727 [2849] 2011
Total Gross Central Government Debt as a Percentage of GDP1692 [7134] 2010