World Handbook III (Aggregate Data)

The World Handbook III presents basically a continuation for 1970 and 1975 of the World Handbook II in which the dates 1950, 1955, 1960 and 1965 were recorded. For some selected variables the time series had already been continued to 1978.

Topics: government income and expenditures by the central government in percent of gross national product (GNP); tax revenue in percent of government income; absolute level of defense expenditures and their proportion in the GNP; public expenditures for education and health in percent of GNP; number of men under arms; proportion of soldiers in the working population; number of employed; total population and number of adults; proportion of votes and proportion of seats in parliament of the 5 largest parties; election turnout; civil rights, political rights, political and economic discrimination (indices); ethnolinguistic ethnic group proportions; separatist movements; surface area; area used for agriculture; population density; absolute gross national product; gross national product per capita and growth rate of the gross national product; number of scientific authors; energy consumption per capita; energy reserves and energy production; import, export and business in percent of the GNP; export concentration on certain countries or goods; income distribution or income concentration; food supply per capita; doctor density; life expectancy for men and women; infant mortality; birth rate and mortality rate; rate of supply with running water; education level of population; illiteracy; distribution of newspapers, radio equipment, television sets, movies and telephones; letter traffic per capita with foreign countries and domestically; percent of population in large cities; percent of the workforce in agriculture, industry and service companies; proportion of the individual sectors in GNP; private consumption and government consumption in percent of GNP; domestic investments; proportion of workers organized in trade unions; strike frequency and number of workers involved in strikes; loss of work days through strikes.