{"schema_version":"mostlyright-public-catalog.v1","dataset":{"id":"4a4b20ae-ae37-4393-b453-4ec3d23aaa75","slug":"policy-indicators-india-and-south-asia-20002024","title":"Policy indicators, India and South Asia, 2000–2024","summary":"**Compare India's policy indicators with seven South Asian neighbours from 2000 to 2024.** This dataset contains World Bank country-year panels for India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka across health, education, jobs, infrastructure, and economic measures. Use it to describe national trends, compare neighbours, or choose outcomes for a more specific policy study.\n\nThe verified panels contain 200 country-year rows and 18 indicators, with supporting observation and indicator-definition tables.\n\n## Coverage\n- **Window:** reference years 2000–2024 inclusive; annual periods have no timezone. Acquisition timestamps use UTC.\n- **Grain:** India and comparison panels contain one row per country-year. Supporting observations contain one row per country-year-indicator.\n- **Geography:** India; Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the comparison panel.\n- **Cadence:** annual reference periods with publisher revisions. Hosted tables inherit the platform refresh schedule; downloaded files preserve the verified snapshot.\n- Verified panels contain 25 India rows and 175 comparison rows. Supporting tables contain 3,600 observations and 18 indicator definitions.\n\n## Columns\n- `country_code`, `country_name`, `year` — source ISO3 country identifier, name and reference year.\n- `population`, `urban_population_pct` — people and urban share of population.\n- `gdp_current_usd`, `gdp_per_capita_constant_2015_usd` — current US dollars and constant 2015 US dollars per person.\n- `gdp_growth_pct`, `inflation_cpi_pct` — annual percentage change in real GDP and consumer prices.\n- `unemployment_pct`, `female_labor_force_pct` — modeled unemployment share of total labour force and modeled female labour-force participation, ages 15+.\n- `secondary_enrollment_gross_pct`, `education_spending_gdp_pct` — gross enrollment ratio and government education spending as a share of GDP.\n- `life_expectancy_years`, `infant_mortality_per_1000`, `under5_mortality_per_1000` — years at birth and deaths per 1,000 live births.\n- `government_health_spending_gdp_pct` — domestic general government health spending as a share of GDP.\n- `basic_drinking_water_pct`, `basic_sanitation_pct`, `electricity_access_pct`, `internet_users_pct` — percentage of population with access or use.\n- Supporting observations retain `indicator_code`, `indicator_name`, `value`, `unit`, `policy_sector`, `footnote`, `observation_status` and `source_url`.\n- The indicator dictionary preserves the publisher definitions, original providers, series codes, units and matching panel fields.\n\n## Missing values\nIndia has 443 of 450 values; all eight countries have 3,493 of 3,600 values. No missing values are filled.\nIndia lacks education spending for 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2023 and 2024, and government health spending for 2024.\nGross enrollment ratios can exceed 100%.\nPublisher estimates, including modeled labour indicators, are retained. Reference years are not publication dates; historical figures may be revised.\n\n## Suitable for\n- India development and public-spending trends.\n- Descriptive comparisons with neighbouring countries.\n- Selecting outcomes for a more specific policy study.\n- These national series do not provide state, district, beneficiary or policy-treatment records, and cannot establish causal policy effects alone.\n\n## Source and rights\nWorld Bank, [World Development Indicators](https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0037712/world-development-indicators), source 2; Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.\nAttribute the World Bank and the originating organisations named in indicator metadata; retain source notes and indicate this selection and reshaping.","topics":["india","public policy","south asia","health","education","employment","infrastructure"],"publisher":{"handle":"mostlyrightmd","display_name":"Mostly Right","avatar_url":"https://mostlyright.md/api/public/avatars/e70f8c973d16894fcee5cb5aba887feafc75cc0d67419bd0ed321cfde9d0d967.webp","mark":{"background":"#FFC613","facets":["#2B5FE3","#F15B22","#17160F"],"pattern":2,"rotation":90}},"star_count":0,"table_count":4,"row_count":3818,"published_at":"2026-09-14T15:14:10.203Z","updated_at":"2026-10-01T13:41:00.312Z","cover_image_url":"https://storage.googleapis.com/mostlyright-dataset-covers/v1/fac440bd-3601-469c-b4ff-e5cd8da6a271/bceb176047d37b07e49961ac718e1035432be22e392eef26d38d9846eca090d8.webp","cover_tile_url":"https://storage.googleapis.com/mostlyright-dataset-covers/v1/fac440bd-3601-469c-b4ff-e5cd8da6a271/bceb176047d37b07e49961ac718e1035432be22e392eef26d38d9846eca090d8.tile.webp","activity":{"views":785,"likes":0},"canonical_url":"https://mostlyright.md/datasets/policy-indicators-india-and-south-asia-20002024","tables":[{"id":"fed8b8c5-210b-489c-8ec8-cf339f4e7255","slug":"policy-observations","title":"policy_observations","license":"CC-BY-4.0","schema":{"columns":11,"column_details":[{"name":"country_code","unit":null,"meaning":"ISO3 country code returned by the World Bank.","nullable":null,"logical_type":"string"},{"name":"country_name","unit":null,"meaning":"Country name returned by the World Bank.","nullable":null,"logical_type":"string"},{"name":"year","unit":null,"meaning":"Annual reference year; 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