This report presents an integrated view of development through indicators, including data on environmental hazards, natural or human-made disasters and climate change, with the goal of putting these data in the hands of policymakers, development specialists, students, and the public in a way that makes the data easy to use.
The overall report aims to provide relevant, high-quality, internationally comparable statistics about development and the quality of people’s lives around the globe in order to help monitoring the progress made toward meeting the Millennium Development Goals.