Glossary

A

Active population

Agricultural land

Agriculture

Amortization

Area harvested

 

B

Balance of payments (BoP)

Balance of trade

Base units SI

Blood pressure

BMI - body mass index

Body volume & SA÷V ratio

BSA - body surface area

Budget - key concepts of US federal budget

Business Cycles

 

C

Capital account (BoP)

Caloric needs

Cereals

Civil aviation traffic

Consumer price index

Convergence criteria

Corruption

Countries list

Current Account

Cycle (business)

 

D

Debt:
External,  Government,  Maastricht,  Public

Deficit (Government)

Dependency ratio

Depression (economy)

Derived units SI

Derived units with special names SI

Discouraged job-seekers

Domestic exports

Drone, UAV (Unmanned air vehicle)

 

E

Employed, employment

Energy consumption, imports, exports

Expansion (economy)

Exports

External debt

 

F

Federal budget US - key concepts

Fertilizer

Fields Medal for Mathematics

Financial account (BoP)

Food Pyramid

Forced labor

Foreign exchange

Forest

Forest plantation

 

G

GDI - gross domestic income

GDP - gross domestic product

GHG - greenhouse gas

Gigawatt, GW, GWe

Gini coefficient

Government debt

Government expenditure

GWP - global warming potential

GWP - gross world product

 

H

HBP - High blood pressure

 

I

IED or Improvised Explosive Device

Imports

Industry

Infant weight

Inflation

Informal economy

Innovation ranking criteria

International reserves

Internet

ITA - International Tourist Arrivals

ITR - International Tourism Receipts

Inverse dependency ratio

 

J

 

K

kilowatt, kW, kilowatt-hour

 

L

Labor force

Labor force participation rate

Life cycle assessment

List of economies

Literacy rate

Logarithm transformation

Logistic function or S-Curve

 

M

Maastricht debt

Megawatt, MW, MWe, MWt

Military expenditure

Moore's law

Motor vehicles

Multiples and sub-multiples of SI units

My Plate dietary model

 

N

National Poverty Line

Nobel Prize

Nuclear waste

 

O

 

P

Patent

Pesticides

Poisson Probability

Population

Potential labour force

Poverty

Poverty Gap

Public Debt

 

Q

 

R

Radiative forcing capacity (RF)

Railway traffic

Recession (economy)

Re-exports

Re-imports

Reprocessing nuclear fuel

Retained-imports

Road network

 

S

S-Curve or Logistic function

Services

SI units (International System of Units)

Slavery

Substitution forecast

Surplus (Government)

 

T

Terawatt, TW, TWe

Terms of trade

Threatened species

Trade

Trade balance

Turing machine, Turing test, Turing award

 

U

Undernourished

Unemployment

University ranking methodology

Unmanned air vehicle (drone)

Uranium

Uranium enrichment

US Budget - key concepts

 

V

Value added

 

W

WAP - Wireless application protocol

Waste

Water : blue, green, grey

Water resources

Water use and water production

Watt

WHR - Waist-to-Hip Ratio

Working age population

Working poor

World Bank list of economies

WWW - World Wide Web

 

X

 

Y

Youth employment

 

Z

 

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