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Under-five mortality rate: Probability of dying between birth and exactly five years of age expressed per 1,000 live births.

Infant mortality rate: Probability of dying between birth and exactly one year of age expressed per 1,000 live births.

GNP: Gross national product, expressed in current United States dollars. GNP per capita growth rates are average annual growth rates that have been computed by fitting trend lines to the logarithmic values of GNP per capita at constant market prices for each year of the time period.

Life expectancy at birth: The number of years newborn children would live if subject to the mortality risks prevailing for the cross-section of population at the time of their birth.

Adult literacy rate: Percentage of persons aged 15 and over who can read and write.

Primary and secondary enrolment ratios: The gross enrolment ratio is the total number of children enrolled in a schooling level -- whether or not they belong in the relevant age group for that level -- expressed as a percentage of the total number of children in the relevant age group for that level. The net enrolment ratio is the total number of children enrolled in a schooling level who belong in the relevant age group, expressed as a percentage of the total number in that age group.

Income share: Percentage of income received by the 20 per cent of households with the highest income and by the 40 per cent of households with the lowest income.

Low birth weight: Less than 2,500 grams.

Underweight: Moderate and severe -- below minus two standard deviations from median weight for age of reference population; severe -- below minus three standard deviations from median weight for age of reference population.

Wasting: Moderate and severe -- below minus two standard deviations from median weight for height of reference population.

Stunting: Moderate and severe -- below minus two standard deviations from median height for age of reference population.

Total goitre rate: Percentage of children aged 6-11 with palpable or visible goitre. This is an indicator of iodine deficiency, which causes brain damage and mental retardation.

Access to health services: Percentage of the population that can reach appropriate local health services by the local means of transport in no more than one hour.

DPT: Diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus.

ORT use: Percentage of all cases of diarrhoea in children under five years of age treated with oral rehydration salts or an appropriate household solution.

Children reaching grade 5 of primary school: Percentage of the children entering the first grade of primary school who eventually reach grade 5.

Crude death rate: Annual number of deaths per 1,000 population.

Crude birth rate: Annual number of births per 1,000 population.

Total fertility rate: The number of children that would be born per woman if she were to live to the end of her child-bearing years and bear children at each age in accordance with prevailing age-specific fertility rates.

Urban population: Percentage of population living in urban areas as defined according to the national definition used in the most recent population census.

Absolute poverty level: The income level below which a minimum nutritionally adequate diet plus essential non-food requirements is not affordable.

ODA: Official development assistance.

Debt service: The sum of interest payments and repayments of principal on external public and publicly guaranteed long-term debts.

Contraceptive prevalence: Percentage of married women aged 15-49 years currently using contraception.

Births attended: Percentage of births attended by physicians, nurses, midwives, trained primary health care workers or trained traditional birth attendants.

Maternal mortality rate: Annual number of deaths of women from pregnancy-related causes per 100,000 live births.