Sets of socio-economic data relevant to each of the GTOS five priority areas (www.fao.org/gtos/) have been developed to facilitate a more integrated and inter-disciplinary analysis of terrestrial data. The socio-economic indicators provide a context for human activities and their connection and feedback to the natural environment. The socio-economic data are supported with methodology sheets (click on the socio-economic name) which give information about each indicator and provide web links, which facilitate the efficient location of relevant data. Click here to download the entire list as a zip file (260 KB). The socio-economic indicators are grouped in five main sections: · Demographic / Human well being · Economics / Energy / Technology · Human health · Industrial / Urban · Natural resources / Rural An excellent source of statistical data on agriculture-related variables can be found at FAOSTAT.
Demographic / Human well being
Name	Description
Adult illiteracy	The adult illiteracy rate is the percentage of people aged 15 and over who cannot read and write.
Age distribution	The percentage of the population in the three age groups of 0-14, 15-59 and 60 years and over.
Human development index	Average of the life expectancy index, the educational attainment index and adjusted GDP per capita (PPP US$) index.
Infant mortality	The infant mortality rate is the proportion of children who die before reaching the age of 12 months.
Life expectancy	The average number of years people would be expected to live if the current mortality conditions prevailed throughout their lives.
Natural disasters	Number of deaths from natural (e.g. avalanches, cyclones, etc) and technological disasters (e.g. chemical accidants).
Population density	Number of inhabitants per unit of total area (per square km).
Population growth rate	The ratio of the total increase of population during a period (usually a year) to the mean population of that period.
Population living below the poverty line	The percentage of population (rural or urban) living below the national (rural or urban) poverty line.
Total population	Total population usually includes all de facto residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.
Urban population	The ratio of the population of urban agglomerations to the total population.
Economics / Energy / Technology
Name	Description
Carbon dioxide emissions	Emissions of carbon dioxide from solid fuels, liquid fuels, gasous fuels, gas flaring and cement manufacturing.
Conventions ratified	Environment related conventions and treaties ordered by countries.
Energy use	The commercial energy use (per capita commercial energy use).
Genuine domestic savings	Equal to net domestic savings, plus education expenditure and minus energy depletion, mineral depletion, net fore........
Gross domestic product	The gross value added by all resident producers in the economy. plus any taxes and minus any subsides (value is per capita).
Primary energy production	Primary energy refers to energy sources as found in their natural state.
Research and development	Current and capital expenditures on creative, systematic activities that increase the stock of knowledge.
Human health
Name	Description
Calories availability	The food supply, per capita, available for human consumption during the reference period.
Government expenditure for health	Consists of recurrent and capital spending from government budgets, external borrowings, grants, etc (value is % of GDP).
Health care	The % of the population that can expect treatment for common diseases and injuries.
Malnutrition prevalence	The percentage of children under the age of five who suffer from moderate and severe underweight, wasting and stunting.
Microbial water- and food-borne diseases	Number of water-borne and food-borne diseases per 1000 inhabitants.
Safe water	The % of the population with reasonable access to an adequate amount of safe drinking water
Sanitation	The % of the population with access to sanitation.
Industrial / Urban
Name	Description
Hazardous waste	The hazardous waste import/export country balance (net transfrontier movement).
Height of dykes	A bank usually of earth constructed to control or confine water.
Industry sector	The percentage of GDP which the secondary sector produces.
Length of dykes	A bank usually of earth constructed to control or confine water.
Motor vehicle network	The number of motor vehicles per km of road network.
Motor vehicle ownership	The total number of motor vehicles divided by the total population (i.e. per capita).
Municipal waste	Total amount of waste generated by the municipal sector (generation and disposal, kg per capita).
Ozone depleting substances	The production and consumption of Ozone Depleting Substances from countries that are Parties of the Montreal Protocol.
Pollution abatement and control expenditure	Purposeful activities aimed directly at the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution.
Waste recycling	The ratio of the quantity recycled to the apparent consumption (domestic production plus imports minus exports).
Natural resources / Rural
Name	Description
Agricultural production index	The disposable output of a country's agriculture sector relative to a given base period average of three years.
Agricultural productivity	The ratio of agricultural value added, measured in U S dollars, to the number of workers in agriculture.
Arable land	Land under temporary crops, temporary meadows for mowing or pasture, land under market and kitchen gardens (per capita).
Fertilizers	Production and consumption.
Food production index	The total country production of food crops that are considered edible and that contain nutrients.
Forest deforestation	The conversion of forest to another land use or the long-term reduction of tree canopy cover below the minimum 10% threshold.
Forest ownership	Forest and other wooded land of public and private ownership including, eventually, forest owned by indigenous or tribal peoples.
Forest plantations	New forest plantations per year over % of total area.
Forest total area	Land with tree crown cover ) of more than 10 percent and area of more 0.5 hectares (ha).
Irrigation potential	Percentage of area of land suitable for irrigation development, including land already under irrigation, on the total cultivable area.
Labour force in agriculture	The percentage of the economically active population engaged in or seeking work in agriculture.
Land area protected	Totally or partially protected areas of at least 1,000 hectares that have limited public access.
Pesticide use	National Consumption of any substance or mixture of substances that is used to prevent, destroy or control pests.
Sawnwood	Wood (including sleepers) sawn length wise or produced by a profile-chipping process, and planed wood.
Water balance	Internal and external renewable water resources.
Water dependency	The percentage of the total renewable water resources originating outside the country.
Water use intensity	The percentage of total renewable water resources withdrawn from a country.
Water withdrawal	The total water withdrawal divided by the population.
Water withdrawal by sector	The share of water withdrawal by three main sectors (Domestic, Industrial, Agricultural).
Wood for fuel and charcoal	The roundwood used as fuel for purposes such as cooking, heating or power production, or as wood for charcoal production.
Wood-based panels	Veneer sheets, plywood, particle board, fibreboard, etc (per year production / consumption, thousand cubic metres solid volume).

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