Global Natural Resource Protection and Child Health Indicators 2021

Natural Resource Protection and Child Health Indicators, 2021 Release, is produced for the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation to inform funding eligibility. It provides proximity-to-target scores for 135 countries on biome protection and for 194 countries on child health metrics. The dataset was created by ESDIS and released in December 2021.

Use Cases

• Analyze the Natural Resource Protection Indicator (NRPI) score trends from 2017 to 2021 to assess changes in biome protection across 135 countries.
• Model the relationship between the Child Health Indicator (CHI) composite score and its component scores for water access, sanitation, and child mortality from 2010 to 2020.
• Rank countries based on their proximity-to-target scores (0-100) for both NRPI and CHI to identify priority regions for intervention.
• Correlate the weighted average percentage of biomes under protected status with socioeconomic factors for cross-country comparative studies.

Strengths

• Includes a consistent time series for the NRPI spanning 5 years (2017-2021).
• Covers a broad geographic scope with the CHI index calculated for 194 countries.
• Provides standardized, comparable scores on a 0-100 scale for both indicators.

Limitations

• Specific row counts, column details, and underlying raw data are not provided.
• The CHI time series ends in 2020, making the data over three years old at the 2021 release date.
• Indicator construction methodology (e.g., weighting schemes) may require external documentation for full understanding.

Provenance

Source

ESDIS, produced in support of the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

Collection Method

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

Time Range

NRPI: 2017 to 2021; CHI: 2010 to (presumably) 2020.

Freshness

Annual release; most recent data from 2021.

Geography

NRPI: 135 countries; CHI: 194 countries.