He found the site so useful he had even put together a manual in Arabic so that more people in the Middle East and North Africa could learn to use it effectively.

For example, a student learning English in an Arab country could translate part of a book into Arabic.

Those were lost but some of these manuscripts remained in the byzantine world of Constantinople and some were translated by the Arabs and preserved in the Arabic world.

And, for the first time, data will be available in languages other than English, with an initial 330 indicators translated into French, Spanish and Arabic.

Some of the supported languages are Chinese, Arabic, German, and French.