This companion report to Mercer’s 2013 Global Diversity and Inclusion Handbook offers an in-depth collection of data and information:

Demographics

• President/prime minister and government type
• Total population, growth rate, and life expectancy
• Capital and largest cities
• Currency
• Gross domestic product (GDP) and GDP per capita
• Literacy rate, languages, religions, and ethnicity
• Age distribution of labour force, and percentage of total labour force (age 15+) and by gender

Historical diversity data

This data is analysed by:

• Gender
• Nationality
• Employment
• Education

Data for 2000 and 2011, and forecast for 2020 by industry: banking, energy/chemicals, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, professional/business services and technology services.

Human Capital Index indicators

World rank of each country for the following indicators:

• Education gender gap
• Health care accessibility
• Economic participation gender gap
• Labour force participation age 15 to 64, and age 65 and over
• Unemployment rate
• Social mobility
• Social safety net protection
• Doing Business Index