1. GDP Growth Rate: is the annual percentage change of constant. GDP. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the total market value of all final goods and services produced in a country in a given year. It is equal to the total consumer, investment and government spending, plus the value of exports,minus the value of imports.

2. Percentage of population below poverty line: The number of people below the poverty line, expressed as a percentage of total population. The overall poverty line is defined on the basis of food poverty line and non-food poverty line. 

3. Gini coefficient: It is a measure used to quantify the inequality of income/expenditure distribution. It is a ratio with values between 0 and 1. 

4. Percentage of Population in Extreme Poverty: The number of people living in extreme poverty, expressed as a percentage of total population.

5. Total Fertility Rate (TFR): It is an age-period fertility rate for a synthetic cohort of women. It measures the average number of births a group of women would have by the time they reach age 50 if they were to give birth at the current age-specific fertility rates. The TFR is expressed as the average number of births per woman. For current fertility rates, the DHS survey uses the period 1-36 months before the survey. 

Infant Mortality Rate (IMR): It is the probability (expressed as a rate per 1000 live births) of a childborn in a three-year period preceding the survey date dying before reaching the age of one. 

Maternal Mortality Rate: Number of female siblings of respondents who died during pregnancy, delivery or within two months of delivery in the period 0-6, 7-13 and 0-13 years prior to the interview by five-year age group at time of death.Maternal deaths of sisters 50 years and older are added to the  number of maternal death of sisters 45-49 years.

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