The World in Figures table package contains 28 Excel tables of country-specific structural data on all the countries of the world. The number of countries is 243, of which 194 sovereign states, and themes 260. The data can be found easily by means of a separate index.
With the exception of the first geographical table and the table of major cities, the basic structure is the same in all tables. The countries are given in Finnish alphabetical order by row and the themes by column. The last rows of the table provide sum data on EU countries and the whole world.
The World in Figures table package tries in its part to meet the growing demand for international data from Statistics Finland. The table package serves at its fullest Finnish-speaking users. As the data are global, it can also be utilised internationally. With this in mind, all the themes and the names of the countries are also available in English in each table.