Regions

Continent in which the region is located. - Distinct values: 5 - Fill rate: 100%

Number of countries within the region. - Distinct values: 14 - Fill rate: 100%

Agricultural land refers to the share of land area that is arable, under permanent crops, and under permanent pastures. Arable land includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded. Land under permanent crops is land cultivated with crops that occupy the land for long periods and need not be replanted after each harvest, such as cocoa, coffee, and rubber. This category includes land under flowering shrubs, fruit trees, nut trees, and vines, but excludes land under trees grown for wood or timber. Permanent pasture is land used for five or more years for forage, including natural and cultivated crops. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: km&sup2

Forest area is land under natural or planted stands of trees of at least 5 meters in situ, whether productive or not, and excludes tree stands in agricultural production systems (for example, in fruit plantations and agroforestry systems) and trees in urban parks and gardens. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: km&sup2

Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: km&sup2

Rural land area in square kilometers, derived from urban extent grids which distinguish urban and rural areas based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: km&sup2

Urban land area in square kilometers, based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlement points for which the total population is greater than 5,000 persons. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: km&sup2

Debt is the entire stock of direct government fixed-term contractual obligations to others outstanding on a particular date. It includes domestic and foreign liabilities such as currency and money deposits, securities other than shares, and loans. It is the gross amount of government liabilities reduced by the amount of equity and financial derivatives held by the government. Because debt is a stock rather than a flow, it is measured as of a given date, usually the last day of the fiscal year. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: % of GDP

Expense is cash payments for operating activities of the government in providing goods and services. It includes compensation of employees (such as wages and salaries), interest and subsidies, grants, social benefits, and other expenses such as rent and dividends. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: % of GDP

GDP at purchaser's prices is the sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products. It is calculated without making deductions for depreciation of fabricated assets or for depletion and degradation of natural resources. Data are in current U.S. dollars. Dollar figures for GDP are converted from domestic currencies using single year official exchange rates. For a few countries where the official exchange rate does not reflect the rate effectively applied to actual foreign exchange transactions, an alternative conversion factor is used. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: current US$

Self-employed workers are those workers who, working on their own account or with one or a few partners or in cooperative, hold the type of jobs defined as a "self-employment jobs." i.e. jobs where the remuneration is directly dependent upon the profits derived from the goods and services produced. Self-employed workers include four sub-categories of employers, own-account workers, members of producers' cooperatives, and contributing family workers. - Distinct values: 21 - Fill rate: 95% - Expressed in: % of total employment

Tax revenue refers to compulsory transfers to the central government for public purposes. Certain compulsory transfers such as fines, penalties, and most social security contributions are excluded. Refunds and corrections of erroneously collected tax revenue are treated as negative revenue. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: % of GDP

Unemployment refers to the share of the labor force that is without work but available for and seeking employment (ILO estimates). - Distinct values: 21 - Fill rate: 95% - Expressed in: % of total labor force

Vulnerable employment is contributing family workers and own-account workers as a percentage of total employment (ILO estimates). - Distinct values: 21 - Fill rate: 95% - Expressed in: % of total employment

Access to electricity is the percentage of population with access to electricity. Electrification data are collected from industry, national surveys and international sources. - Distinct values: 17 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: % of population

Clean energy is noncarbohydrate energy that does not produce carbon dioxide when generated. It includes hydropower and nuclear, geothermal, and solar power, among others. - Distinct values: 19 - Fill rate: 86% - Expressed in: % of total energy use

Sources of electricity refer to the inputs used to generate electricity. Coal refers to all coal and brown coal, both primary (including hard coal and lignite-brown coal) and derived fuels (including patent fuel, coke oven coke, gas coke, coke oven gas, and blast furnace gas). - Distinct values: 19 - Fill rate: 86% - Expressed in: % of total

Sources of electricity refer to the inputs used to generate electricity. Gas refers to natural gas but excludes natural gas liquids. - Distinct values: 19 - Fill rate: 86% - Expressed in: % of total

Sources of electricity refer to the inputs used to generate electricity. Nuclear power refers to electricity produced by nuclear power plants. - Distinct values: 12 - Fill rate: 86% - Expressed in: % of total

Sources of electricity refer to the inputs used to generate electricity. Oil refers to crude oil and petroleum products. - Distinct values: 19 - Fill rate: 86% - Expressed in: % of total

Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric, includes geothermal, solar, tides, wind, biomass, and biofuels. - Distinct values: 19 - Fill rate: 86% - Expressed in: % of total

Net energy imports are estimated as energy use less production, both measured in oil equivalents. A negative value indicates that the country is a net exporter. Energy use refers to use of primary energy before transformation to other end-use fuels, which is equal to indigenous production plus imports and stock changes, minus exports and fuels supplied to ships and aircraft engaged in international transport. - Distinct values: 19 - Fill rate: 86% - Expressed in: % of energy use

Fossil fuel comprises coal, oil, petroleum, and natural gas products. - Distinct values: 20 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: % of total

Renewable energy consumption is the share of renewables energy in total final energy consumption. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: % of total final energy consumption

A measure of annual emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases (GHG), from the agriculture, energy, waste, and industrial sectors, excluding LULUCF.. The measure is standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent values using the Global Warming Potential (GWP) factors of IPCC's 5th Assessment Report (AR5). Carbon dioxide emissions are those stemming from the burning of fossil fuels and the manufacture of cement. They include carbon dioxide produced during consumption of solid, liquid, and gas fuels and gas flaring. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: Mt of CO2 equivalent

A measure of annual emissions of methane (CH4), one of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases (GHG), from the agriculture, energy, waste, and industrial sectors, excluding LULUCF.. The measure is standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent values using the Global Warming Potential (GWP) factors of IPCC's 5th Assessment Report (AR5). Methane emissions are those stemming from human activities such as agriculture and from industrial methane production. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: Mt of CO2 equivalent

A measure of annual emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O), one of the six Kyoto greenhouse gases (GHG), from the agriculture, energy, waste, and industrial sectors, excluding LULUCF.. The measure is standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent values using the Global Warming Potential (GWP) factors of IPCC's 5th Assessment Report (AR5). Nitrous oxide emissions are emissions from agricultural biomass burning, industrial activities, and livestock management. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: Mt of CO2 equivalent

A measure of annual emissions of the six greenhouse gases (GHG) covered by the Kyoto Protocol (carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulphurhexafluoride (SF6)) from the energy, industry, waste, and agriculture sectors, standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent values. This measure excludes GHG fluxes caused by Land Use Change Land Use and Forestry (LULUCF), as these fluxes have larger uncertainties. The measure is standardized to carbon dioxide equivalent values using the Global Warming Potential (GWP) factors of IPCC's 5th Assessment Report (AR5). - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: Mt of CO2 equivalent

Urban population below 5m is the percentage of the total population, living in areas where the elevation is 5 meters or less. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: % of total population

Level of current health expenditure expressed as a percentage of GDP. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year. This indicator does not include capital health expenditures such as buildings, machinery, IT and stocks of vaccines for emergency or outbreaks. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: % of GDP

Current expenditures on health per capita in current US dollars. Estimates of current health expenditures include healthcare goods and services consumed during each year. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: current US$

Hospital beds include inpatient beds available in public, private, general, and specialized hospitals and rehabilitation centers. In most cases beds for both acute and chronic care are included. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: per 1,000 people

Number of new HIV infections among uninfected populations expressed per 1,000 uninfected population in the year before the period. - Distinct values: 19 - Fill rate: 91% - Expressed in: per 1,000 uninfected population

Suicide mortality rate is the number of suicide deaths in a year per 100,000 population. Crude suicide rate (not age-adjusted). - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: per 100,000 population

Armed forces personnel are active duty military personnel, including paramilitary forces if the training, organization, equipment, and control suggest they may be used to support or replace regular military forces. - Distinct values: 21 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: people

Internally displaced persons are defined according to the 1998 Guiding Principles (http://www.internal-displacement.org/publications/1998/ocha-guiding-principles-on-internal-displacement) as people or groups of people who have been forced or obliged to flee or to leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of armed conflict, or to avoid the effects of armed conflict, situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights, or natural or human-made disasters and who have not crossed an international border. “People displaced” refers to the number of people living in displacement as of the end of each year, and reflects the stock of people displaced at the end of the previous year, plus inflows of new cases arriving over the year as well as births over the year to those displaced, minus outflows which may include returnees, those who settled elsewhere, those who integrated locally, those who travelled over borders, and deaths. - Distinct values: 16 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: people

Military expenditures data from SIPRI are derived from the NATO definition, which includes all current and capital expenditures on the armed forces, including peacekeeping forces; defense ministries and other government agencies engaged in defense projects; paramilitary forces, if these are judged to be trained and equipped for military operations; and military space activities. Such expenditures include military and civil personnel, including retirement pensions of military personnel and social services for personnel; operation and maintenance; procurement; military research and development; and military aid (in the military expenditures of the donor country). Excluded are civil defense and current expenditures for previous military activities, such as for veterans' benefits, demobilization, conversion, and destruction of weapons. - Distinct values: 20 - Fill rate: 91% - Expressed in: % of GDP

Crude birth rate indicates the number of live births per 1,000 midyear population. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: per 1,000 people

Crude death rate indicates the number of deaths occurring during the year, per 1,000 population estimated at midyear. Subtracting the crude death rate from the crude birth rate provides the rate of natural increase, which is equal to the rate of population change in the absence of migration. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: per 1,000 people

Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: births per woman

Internet users are individuals who have used the Internet (from any location) in the last 3 months. The Internet can be used via a computer, mobile phone, personal digital assistant, games machine, digital TV etc. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: % of population

Life expectancy at birth indicates the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: year

Net migration is the number of immigrants minus the number of emigrants, including citizens and noncitizens, for the five-year period. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: people

Female population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all female residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: people

Male population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all male residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: people

Total population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. The values shown are midyear estimates. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: people

Women in parliaments are the percentage of parliamentary seats in a single or lower chamber held by women. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: %

Rural population refers to people living in rural areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated as the difference between total population and urban population. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country coverages. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: people

Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated using World Bank population estimates and urban ratios from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects. Aggregation of urban and rural population may not add up to total population because of different country coverages. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: people

The level of press freedom enjoyed by journalists and media. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100%

Index measuring the quality of democracy across the world. - Distinct values: 21 - Fill rate: 100%

Median age of region population. - Distinct values: 22 - Fill rate: 100% - Expressed in: year