The World Bank Group compiled this dataset to address persistent gender data gaps, with a strategy covering 2016-2023. It contains the latest sex-disaggregated statistics and gender indicators for Belize, covering demography, education, health, economic opportunities, and public life. The data is sourced from the World Bank's portal and was last updated on HDX in April 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze gender gaps in economic productivity based on sex-disaggregated labor and opportunity data.
- Model relationships between gender equality in education and broader development outcomes.
- Track progress on gender representation in public life and decision-making over time.
Strengths
- Data is provided under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
- Sourced from the authoritative World Bank Group, a major international institution.
- Explicitly aims to fill significant gaps in gender data with a sharpened focus.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Group
- Collection Method
- Aggregated from the World Bank's data portal.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-27 21:50:30.383250; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Belize