Natural Resource and Child Health Indicators for MCC Eligibility

Country-level indicators support the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation's funding eligibility decisions. The dataset includes a Natural Resource Protection Indicator (NRPI) for 220 countries and a Child Health Indicator (CHI) for 195 countries, with scores ranging from 0 to 100. It provides a time series for NRPI from 2010 to 2022 and for CHI from 2010 to 2020, produced by ESDIS in 2022.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in biome protection coverage using the NRPI's weighted average percentage scores.
• Evaluating progress on child mortality and access to basic water and sanitation via the CHI's composite index.
• Comparing country performance over time using the consistent time series from 2010 onward.
• Supporting MCC funding decisions by ranking countries based on proximity-to-target scores.

Strengths

• Provides a consistent time series spanning 12 years for NRPI and 10 years for CHI.
• Includes scores for a large number of countries (220 for NRPI, 195 for CHI).
• Indicators are standardized composite scores designed for objective cross-country comparison.

Limitations

• Specific column names and row counts are not provided by any source.
• Sources conflict on the last updated date: nasa_earthdata reports 2022-12-31, while datagov reports 2026-03-13.
• File formats listed (JPEG, HTML) appear inconsistent with a tabular, time-series dataset.

Provenance

Source

ESDIS

Collection Method

Calculated based on weighted average percentage of biomes under protected status (NRPI) and average of three proximity-to-target scores for child health metrics (CHI).

Time Range

2010-2022

Freshness

2026-03-13

Geography

Global (220 and 195 countries)