Statistical Terms Glossary

The maximum loading capacity of the ship in (tons).

Is a financial estimate. Its purpose is to help consumers and enterprise managers determine direct and indirect costs of a product or system. It is a management accounting concept that can be used in full cost accounting or even Ecological economics where it includes social costs.

See Costs.

Total cumulative storage capacity of all large dams. The value indicates the sum of the theoretical initial capacities of all dams, which does not change with time.

It refers to the concentration of the total dissolved salts in the water measured in (mg/L).

The sum of Direct Material Output and disposal of unused domestic extraction. This indicator represents the total quantity of material outputs to the environment released on the national territory by economic activity (in economy-wide material flow accounting).

The total economy consists of all the institutional units which are resident in the economic territory of a country

Level of total expend International Telecommunication Union re on health (THE) expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP).

Total (or national) expenditure on health is based on the following identity and functional boundaries of medical care.

Exploitable water resources (also called manageable water resources or water development potential) are considered to be available for development, taking into consideration factors such as: the economic and environmental feasibility of storing floodwater behind dams, extracting groundwater, the physical possibility of storing water that naturally flows out to the sea, and minimum flow requirements (navigation, environmental services, aquatic life, etc.). Methods to assess exploitable water resources vary from country to country.

That part of the country's long-term average annual renewable water resources that are not generated in the country. It includes inflows from upstream countries (groundwater and surface water), and part of the water of border lakes and/or rivers.

Total factor productivity is a synonym for Multi-factor productivity (MFP). The OECD productivity manual uses the MFP acronym to signal a certain modesty with respect to the capacity of capturing all factors’ contribution to output growth.

Measure of the efficiency of all inputs to a production process.

The number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years (15-49) and if the likelihood of her giving birth to children at any given age were to be the currently-prevailing age-specific fertility rate. It is the total of all the age-specific fertility rates defined over a five-year interval (n).

Total final consumption is the total value of all expenditures on individual and collective consumption goods and services incurred by resident households, resident NPISHs and general government units; it may also be defined in terms of actual final consumption as the value of all the individual goods and services acquired by resident households plus the value of the collective services provided by general government to the community or large sections of the community.

The sum of the total freight and mail, both loaded and unloaded, at the reporting airport. All trucking operations using an air waybill should be excluded.
Note: Freight and mail together are sometimes referred to as cargo.

This is the sum of surface water withdrawal and groundwater withdrawal.

It refers to the crops grown under full control irrigation.

Number of persons (head counts) and number of full-time equivalent (FTE) persons, employed (including self-employed) in health services, including 'contracted out' staff and excluding pharmaceutical and medical equipment manufacturing employees.

Are all hospital beds which are regularly maintained and staffed and immediately available for the care of admitted patients.

Number of persons employed (head counts), and number of full-time equivalent (FTE) persons employed in general and specialty hospitals. Self-employed are included.

Total hours worked are the aggregate number of hours actually worked during the period in employee and self-employment jobs.

Internal renewable water resources (IRWR): long-term average annual flow of rivers and recharge of aquifers generated from endogenous precipitation. Double counting of surface water and groundwater resources is avoided by deducting the overlap from the sum of the surface water and groundwater resources.

Total annual internal renewable water resources per inhabitant.

Comprises all persons who fulfil the requirements for inclusion among the employed or the unemployed during a specified brief reference period.

This indicator measures the total primary material requirement associated with domestic consumption activities. TMC equals Total Material Requirement minus exports and their hidden flows (in economy-wide material flow accounting).

The sum of Total Domestic Output plus exports. It therefore measures the total of material that leaves the economy (in economy-wide material flow accounting).

This indicator includes, in addition to Domestic Material Input, the upstream hidden material flows which are associated with imports and predominantly burden the environment in other countries. It measures the total “material base” of an economy; that is, the total primary resource requirements of the production activities. Adding these upstream flows converts imports into their “primary resource extraction equivalent” (in economy-wide material flow accounting).

Relative instantaneous rate of the mortality of the number of individuals that die due to all causes. Z, F and M are related by the following expression: Z=F+M.

The combined effect of all sources of mortality acting on a fish population. This is conveniently expressed in terms of instantaneous mortality rates because the total instantaneous mortality rate is simply the sum of the instantaneous fishing and natural mortality rates. For example, the total instantaneous mortality rate that is occurring when the instantaneous fishing mortality rate is 0.3 and the instantaneous natural mortality rate is 0.2 would be 0.5.