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di Emanuela Clavarino
Pubblicato il 03/05/2012Read time: 2 mins
Global Problems

The OECD Factbook App presents 100 economic indicators in a format specially designed for smartphones. An easy way to access to a statistical picture of the world’s major economies from OECD.

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The OECD Factbook App is organised around 12 themes such as population and migration, macroeconomic trends, and globalization. Each indicator includes a table showing the latest available data for the 30 OECD countries. When available, it also shows data from countries with which the OECD has close co-operation such as Brazil, Russian Federation, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa.

The app has iOs as well as Android version.

Before to download the app it is a good idea to visit the Your Better Life Index website to understand how the app works.

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This website, like the app, is designed to visualise and compare some of the key factors, like education, housing, environment, and so on, that contribute to well-being in OECD countries.

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The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is one of the world’s largest publishers in the fields of Economics and Public Policy. The mission of OECD is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world.
In the YouTube OECD's channel there are as many videos about cross-national comparisons:

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Previews of the app:

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