234 countries have a Natural Resource Protection Indicator (NRPI) score based on the weighted percentage of biomes under protected status. The 2017 release from ESDIS provides a consistent time series of NRPI scores for 2013-2017 and Child Health Indicator (CHI) scores for 199 countries from 2010 to 2017. These proximity-to-target scores, ranging from 0 to 100, were developed to support the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation's funding eligibility criteria.
Use Cases
- Analyze the relationship between a country's NRPI score and its CHI score to identify potential environmental-health linkages.
- Model temporal trends in Child Health Indicator scores from 2010 to 2017 using its component metrics for water access, sanitation, and child mortality.
- Compare Natural Resource Protection Indicator scores across 234 countries to rank biome conservation performance.
- Use the 0-100 proximity-to-target scores as a normalized metric for cross-country benchmarking in development studies.
Strengths
- Covers 234 countries for the Natural Resource Protection Indicator, providing near-global coverage.
- Includes a consistent 5-year time series (2013-2017) for NRPI scores and an 8-year series (2010-2017) for CHI scores.
- Indicators are composite scores derived from specific, weighted underlying metrics (e.g., biome protection percentage, child mortality).
Limitations
- The dataset's last update was in 2016, making the 2017 release the most recent and potentially stale for current analysis.
- Specific underlying raw data (e.g., exact mortality rates, protected area boundaries) are not provided, only the composite scores.
- The Child Health Indicator covers 199 countries, which is fewer than the 234 covered by the Natural Resource Protection Indicator.
Provenance
- Source
- ESDIS, produced in support of the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).
- Collection Method
- Calculated composite indices based on weighted averages of underlying global metrics for resource protection and child health.
- Time Range
- NRPI: 2013-2017; CHI: 2010-2017.
- Freshness
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- Geography
- Global (234 countries for NRPI, 199 countries for CHI).