Statistical Terms Glossary

External debt that has a maturity of more than one year. Maturity can be defined either on an original or remaining basis.

Long-term instruments are instruments with a maturity of more than 5 years

Used for loans with an original or extended maturity of more than one year.

Long-term loans consist of loans that have an original maturity normally of more than one year, except that, to accommodate variations in practice between countries, long-term may be defined to require an original maturity in excess of two years.

Is a person who moves to a country other than that of his or her usual residence for a period of at least a year (12 months), so that the country of destination effectively becomes his or her new country of usual residence. From the perspective of the country of departure, the person will be a long- term emigrant and from that of the country of arrival, the person will be a long-term immigrant.

Prime rate used in Japan.

Long-term securities other than shares consist of securities other than shares that have an original maturity of more than one year; however, to accommodate variations in practice between countries, long-term may be defined to include an original maturity in excess of two years

Those people who are unemployed for 12 months or more.

A curve plots the cumulative percentages of total income received against the cumulative percentages of recipients, starting with the poorest individual or household.

The vehicles of fixed body used for moving freight and goods weighs nearly (3 -24 tons) ex. (reefer for transporting meat, egg , fish…)

Rigid road motor vehicle designed, exclusively or primarily, to carry goods.

Losses of government trading organisations consist of the losses incurred by government trading organisations whose function is to buy and sell the products of resident enterprises; when such organisations incur losses as a matter of deliberate government economic or social policy by selling at lower prices than those at which they purchased the goods, the difference between the purchase and the selling prices should be treated as a subsidy.

Loss-leader selling is a marketing practice of selling a product or service at a loss in order to attract customers to buy other products at regular prices. Although this practice is illegal in some jurisdictions, in others it is viewed benevolently as a promotional device that has the procompetitive effect of increasing total sales.

The term “lost fishing gear” means fishing gear over which the owner/operator has accidentally lost control and that cannot be located and/or retrieved by owner/operator.

Weight of a new-born of less than 2.5 kg.

Lowest level of water reached in a river or a lake