76 countries are scored for natural resource protection and 198 countries for child health using proximity-to-target metrics from 0 to 100. The U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation uses these indicators, produced by ESDIS, as selection criteria for funding eligibility. The 2023 release provides a consistent time series from 2019 to 2022 for the NRPI and from 2010 to 2022 for the CHI.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in the Natural Resource Protection Indicator (NRPI) scores from 2019 to 2022 to identify countries improving their environmental performance.
- Correlate Child Health Indicator (CHI) components—access to water, sanitation, and child mortality—to identify primary drivers of health outcomes across 198 countries.
- Benchmark a country's NRPI score against the 2022 Environmental Performance Index to assess alignment with global environmental metrics.
- Model funding eligibility by using the 0-100 proximity-to-target scores for both NRPI and CHI as composite selection criteria.
- Compare temporal coverage differences, using the longer CHI time series (2010-2022) for longitudinal health studies versus the shorter NRPI series for recent environmental analysis.
Strengths
- CHI index covers 198 countries, providing a near-global scope for child health metrics.
- Provides a consistent time series for the NRPI across 4 years (2019-2022) and for the CHI across 13 years (2010-2022).
- Indicators use standardized proximity-to-target scores on a clear 0 to 100 scale for comparability.
Limitations
- Natural Resource Protection Indicator is limited to only 76 MCC-eligible countries, excluding many nations.
- Child Health Indicator is a composite average, potentially masking individual component (water, sanitation, mortality) extremes.
- Underlying source data (e.g., Environmental Performance Index) is from 2022, which may not reflect the most current conditions for the 2023 release.
Provenance
- Source
- ESDIS, produced in support of the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation.
- Collection Method
- NRPI derived from the 2022 Environmental Performance Index; CHI is a composite index averaging proximity-to-target scores for water access, sanitation access, and child mortality.
- Time Range
- NRPI: 2019-2022; CHI: 2010-2022.
- Freshness
- Data reflects a 2023 release with source material up to 2022.
- Geography
- NRPI: 76 MCC-eligible countries; CHI: 198 countries.