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IndicatorBHRBahrainMiddle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.3rank #128
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile53rank #76
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.06rank #141
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.13rank #131
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.17rank #128
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile63rank #62
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.3rank #128
Military spending% GDP2.9%rank #26
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.05rank #140
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile61.2rank #127
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile69.8rank #36
Rule of Law0-100 percentile59.9rank #91
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.25rank #119
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.14rank #138
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.06rank #138
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile33.7rank #176
Women in parliament% seats20%rank #112
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.57rank #113
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment0.83%rank #177
Agriculture value added% GDP0.24%rank #156
Annual working hours per workerhours2,052.4rank #56
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker549,142.4rank #13
Current account balance% GDP4.8%rank #31
Employment-to-population ratio%69.3%rank #21
FDI net inflows% GDP5.7%rank #42
GDPcurrent US$48.97Brank #98
GDP growth%3.5%rank #90
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$30,596.6rank #42
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $60,669.6rank #22
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $52,818.8rank #27
Government expenditure% GDP26.1%rank #80
Gross capital formation% GDP28.4%rank #36
Gross savings% GDP33.4%rank #23
High-technology exports% manuf. exports0.39%rank #148
Human capital indexindex2.2rank #107
Industry value added% GDP41.2%rank #13
Inflation%-0.14%rank #10
Labour force participation rate%70.1%rank #27
R&D expenditure% GDP0.19%rank #24
Researchers in R&Dper million848.9rank #16
Tax revenue% GDP2.8%rank #135
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.88rank #18
Trade openness% GDP157.5%rank #14
Unemployment% labor force1.1%rank #7
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%1.1%rank #7
Vulnerable employment% employment0.75%rank #2
Youth unemployment% ages 15-245.4%rank #30
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-245.3%rank #28
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop99.9%rank #21
Basic sanitation access% pop100%rank #1
Child mortalityper 1000.88rank #40
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,422.8rank #33
DTP3 immunization coverage%96%rank #4
Health spending% GDP4%rank #154
Infant mortalityper 1k births7.3rank #34
Life expectancyyears81.4rank #41
Maternal mortalityper 100k17rank #17
Measles immunization% children99%rank #1
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%99%rank #1
Physiciansper 1k0.74rank #93
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m356.6rank #192
Road traffic deathsper 100k5.2rank #19
Smoking prevalence% adults15.4%rank #47
Suicide mortality rateper 100k4.7rank #51
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k12rank #47
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births8.8rank #65
Education
Adult literacy%97.8%rank #7
Education spending% GDP1.9%rank #107
Expected years of schoolingyears15.9rank #46
Mean years of schoolingyears11.1rank #65
Primary completion rate% relevant age94.1%rank #65
Primary enrollment% gross96.9%rank #87
Secondary enrollment% gross98.8%rank #41
Tertiary enrollment% gross58.4%rank #38
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00012rank #119
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.8rank #117
Median age of populationyears32.9rank #96
Net migration rateper 1,00012.7rank #15
Populationpeople1.6Mrank #152
Population growth%0.73%rank #118
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years85.2rank #42
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands2,139.5rank #150
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age29.2rank #214
Urban population%100%rank #1
Climate
CO₂ emissionst39Mrank #63
CO₂ per capitat24.3rank #4
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation0%rank #1
Electricity from hydro% generation0%rank #144
Electricity from solar% generation0.26%rank #147
Electricity from wind% generation0%rank #104
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita23,120.3rank #3
Forest area% land0.95%rank #196
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita39.6rank #190
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh902.2rank #186
Renewable electricity%0.26%rank #176
Renewable energy share%0%rank #171
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e62.5rank #112
Society
Asylum seekerspeople130rank #32
Female labor participation%42.3%rank #142
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10017rank #81
Gender Development Indexratio0.96rank #59
Gender Inequality Index0-10.17rank #40
Homicide rateper 100k0.2rank #3
Human Development Index0-10.9rank #29
Internet users% pop100%rank #1
Life satisfaction0-106.3rank #53
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.63rank #76
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #5
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #3
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #7
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #16
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people240rank #136
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people267rank #48
Youth NEET rate%10.5%rank #39
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-102.1rank #16
Human hazard & exposure0-102.7rank #24
INFORM risk score0-101.7rank #6
Lack of coping capacity0-103.4rank #26
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-101.1rank #8
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-105.2rank #31
Natural hazard & exposure0-101.5rank #4
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year2rank #2
Socio-economic vulnerability0-100.6rank #7
Vulnerability0-100.7rank #2
Vulnerable groups0-100.7rank #4
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