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OVERVIEW

What is it?

Created in INTPA and developed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC)by DG INTPA, the Global Development Data Tool (GDDT) features a wide variety of economic and social indicators, figures, and trends related to countries, regions and regional organisations. It covers all world countries and six Regional Organisations: Common Market for Eastern & Southern Africa (COMESA), Southern African Development Community (SADC), East African Community (EAC), Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Economic Community of Central African (ECCAS)). and territories and 16 regional organizations.
The tool provides a high-level picture of what is and has been happening in a given country or region over a five-year period. It allows comparing two entities and download a PDF report. It is also an analytical tool that allows to see data in clusters of countries, as well as the correlation between two indicators.

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Its user-friendly format: the GDDT is a clever solution, a neat application that provides quick access to close to more than two-hundred socio-economic indicators in more than ten thematic areas with just a few clicks.

It has two functionalities. It allows to make comparisons between any two countries, territories, regions, and regional organisations. The analyse tool gives the possibility to compare two indicators by country, region and year, view clusters and see correlations between indicators.

What are its limitations?

Currently the tool is available only internally ; it is updated twice a year, not automatically, and it will become a global tool in January 2022. Not all features are available on the mobile application, for example the Analyse tool or generating country reportsfor EU staff. It allows comparing only two entities. It can only be accessed online.

PRACTICAL APPLICATION

Key elements

TwoMore than two-hundreds socio-economic indicators in more than ten thematic areas from over thirty data sources, covering all African countries , the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP), the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs), and six Regional Organisations (COMESA, SADC, EAC, IOC, ECCAS, ECOWAS). The tool will become global by January 2022.and territories.

The indicators correspond to eleven thematics13 thematic areas:

Economy and finance
Official Development Assistance (ODA)
Trade
Business environment
Demography
Employment
Human development
Gender and governance
Environment, climate change and energy
Fragility and resilience
Digitalisation
STI
Health
Science, technology and innovation (STI)
Humanitarian Aid

The GDDT can show simultaneously and allows downloading data for two different countries, regions and/or regional organisations to facilitate:

identifying key areas for further analysis and engagement
improving understanding of development related issues
increasing collective knowledge for data-driven policy
promoting data-harmonization across units and DGs
improving time-efficiency through direct access to data

Requirements

Data/information: N/A

Time: N/A

Skills: B

Basic asic statistics and macro-economics, reading charts, understanding correlation between indicators.

Facilities and materials:

See the FAQs, Image Removed GuidelinesImage Added , the short Demo Image Added, the webinars in English Image Removed Image Added and in French Image Removed Image Added (enrolment key: @data_2021), and and MyINTPA page Image Removed Image Added

Financial costs and source:

Free. Data are taken from globally recognised and publicly available data sources (WB, UN, ESTAT, ILO, OECD, etc). Data is updated automatically depending on the frequency of the data source.

Tips and tricks:

Use the Go to Indicators View to quickly navigate to your indicator of interest.

Directly download the data from the tool and create customised reports.

RESOURCES

Where to find it

The GDDT is available both as a website Image Removed and a mobile app for offline access (see the instructions Image Removed to download the app). Image Added