DevDat

Data for Sustainable Development

DevDat is a data expertise center specialized in data enrichment, subnational indicators, prediction models and research focused on low and middle income countries (LMICs).

Our indicators at the level of provinces and small-area grids reveal variation within and between countries regarding wealth, poverty, education, health, gender, infrastructure, corruption and vulnerability.

We provide a unique window to the developing world through which major developments can be observed and analyzed with a degree of detail that has never been possible before.

All our indicators and analyses are based on the Database Developing World, one of the largest household level databases for developing countries, with information on over 35 million individuals in almost all LMICs.

Aims & Opportunities

Creating detailed overview scans of regions for political or humanitarian purposes, including monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals.

Analyzing and monitoring large-scale demographic, socio-economic, behavioral, political, cultural, health, institutional and environmental changes taking place throughout the developing world.

Connecting human-system data at small-area level with earth-system data on the physical, geographical and biological environment in which people live to study (hu)man-environment interactions.

Project examples

Construction of the global Subnational Corruption Database (SCD) with indicators for grand and petty corruption in 1400+ regions across the globe. Find publication here.

Development of the GDL (climate-change) Vulnerability Index (GVI) and using this index to creat projections of climate change vulnerability until 2100 along the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways. Find publications here and here. For visualizations and data download visit the GVI pages of the Global Data Lab.

Development of subnational indicators for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals in Somalia. Indicators available in the Somalia Goaltracker.

Construction of Subnational Human Development Database with values of the UNDPs Human Development Index and its underlying subindices for 1600+ subnational regions across the globe. Find publication here.

Analysis of the Demographic Window of Opportunity as a motor of economic growth in low and middle income countries. Find publication here.

Development of subnational indicators for the Palestine Territories and Gaza for the UNDP report: Gaza War: Expected Socio-Economic Impacts on the State of Palestine, November 2023. Find report here.

Presenting the Domestic Transition as pathway towards a decent standard of living of households in low and middle income countries. Find publication here.

Assessment of the determinants of birth registration in Africa. Find publication here.

Background study on subnational human development for the 2019 Human Developmernt Report of the United Nations Development Programme:"Beyond income, beyond averages, beyond today: Inequalities in human development in the 21st century". Find report here.