Global Natural Resource Protection and Child Health Index Scores, 2010-2016

Natural Resource Protection and Child Health Indicators, 2016 Release, provide proximity-to-target scores for 237 and 190 countries respectively. The dataset includes a consistent time series of Natural Resource Protection Indicator scores from 2012 to 2016 and Child Health Indicator scores from 2010 to 2016. It was produced by ESDIS in support of the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation for funding eligibility selection.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in the Natural Resource Protection Indicator score for 237 countries from 2012 to 2016 to assess global conservation progress.
• Compare Child Health Indicator scores across 190 countries, derived from sanitation, water, and child mortality metrics, to identify regional disparities.
• Model the relationship between a country's biome protection percentage (underlying NRPI) and its child mortality score (component of CHI).
• Use the 0-100 proximity-to-target scores for the NRPI and CHI as targets for ranking or classification models in development analytics.

Strengths

• Covers 237 countries for the Natural Resource Protection Indicator, providing broad global coverage.
• Includes a consistent 5-year time series (2012-2016) for the NRPI and a 7-year series (2010-2016) for the CHI.
• Indicators are composite scores based on defined methodologies (weighted biome protection, average of three health metrics).

Limitations

• Data is not recent, with the last update in 2015 and the latest scores ending in 2016.
• Specific sample sizes, underlying raw data values, and column definitions are not provided in the description.
• The CHI covers fewer countries (190) than the NRPI (237), limiting direct comparisons for some nations.

Provenance

Source

ESDIS, produced for the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation.

Collection Method

Calculated based on the weighted average percentage of biomes under protected status (NRPI) and the average of three proximity-to-target scores for sanitation, water, and child mortality (CHI).

Time Range

NRPI: 2012-2016; CHI: 2010-2016.

Freshness

2016 release of data; last updated 2015-12-31.

Geography

Global (NRPI: 237 countries; CHI: 190 countries).