world | R Documentation |
A dataset with variables about countries in the world. This dataset is used to demonstrate application of R to political analysis. See book Appendix for variable names and descriptions.
world
A data frame with 169 rows and 206 variables.
Country numerical code
Prevalence of bribing judges
Prevalence of bribing police
Broadband subscription per 100 people
Number of new corporations registered annually
Three-letter abbreviation of country name
National carbon footprint
Numeric country code based on the ISO-3166-1 standard
Percent of GDP spent on education
Composition of GDP: Agricultural sector
Composition of GDP: Industrial sector
Composition of GDP: Service sector
Civil war intensity
Carbon dioxide emissions per capita
Colony of what country?
Does country require citizens to vote?
Confidence in institutions scale
Level of violent conflict in country
Number of internal conflict without foreign invention
Number of internal conflict with foreign invention
Corporate tax rate
Corruption perception index
Country/territory name
Number of attempted coups d'etat since 1950
Number of successful coups d'etat since 1950
Total COVID cases per million
Total COVID deaths per million
Maximum of COVID response stringency index
Mean of COVID response stringency index
Percentage of population fully vaccinated against COVID
Legal status of death penalty
Public debt as a percentage of GDP
Percentage of other democracies in region
Percentage of other democracies in region
Average number of members per district
Effective number of parliamentary parties
Is chief executive a military officer?
National political system
Number of years since the last regime transition
Total ecological footprint
Global economic competitiveness
Rating of overall economic freedom
Rating of overall economic freedom, 5 ordinal categories
Average Schooling Years, Female
Percentage of Females with No Schooling
Average Schooling Years, Male
Percentage of Males with No Schooling
Average rating of quality of educational system
Government effectiveness scale
Level of democracy, 4 ordinal categories
Is country a democracy?
Rating of democracy
Integrity of country's electoral system
Were there riots and protest after election?
Were there riots and protest before election?
Percentage of country's energy that is non-fossil fuel
Effective number of parliamentary parties
Effective number of parliamentary parties
Effective number of parliamentary parties
Number of environmental treaties agreed to
EU member state
Inflow of foreign direct investment (in millions of US dollars)
Number children born per woman
Rating of democracy, 3 ordinal categories
Freedom House rating of democracy
Level of Internet freedom in country, 3 ordinal categories
Measure of Internet freedom
Ethnic factionalization
Ethnic factionalization
Ethnic factionalization
Language factionalization
Religious factionalization
Gas production (in millions of barrels of oil equivalent)
Annual economic growth rate
Gross domestic product per capita (in U.S. dollars)
Gross domestic product per person, 5 ordinal categories
Gender empowerment
Index of gender inequality
GINI index (of income inequality)
Social globalization
Capacity of state to provide for needy citizens
Rating of government integrity
Government spending (all types) as a percentage of GDP
The quality of government
Index of government restrictions on religion
Name of government preferred religion
Index of government religious preference
Average happiness in country
Human development index
Percentage of population aged 15-49 with HIV
Intentional homicides per 100,000 persons
Number of hospital beds per thousand people
Human flight and brain drain from country
Has country ratified treaty for International Criminal Court?
Percentage of population born in another county
Number incarcerated per 100,000 persons
Income tax rate
Does country have an independent judiciary?
Year of independence
Number infants dying before age one per 1,000 live births
Annual inflation rate
Percentage of population that uses the Internet
Rating of effectiveness of country's judiciary
Average rating of judicial independence
Legal protections for private property rights
Legal origin of commercial code of country
Measure of quality of country's legal institutions
Life expectancy at birth
Life expectancy at birth among females
Life expectancy at birth among males
Literacy rate
Does country provide free or subsidized media access for political candidates?
Does country provide free or subsidized media access for political parties?
Median age in years
Net migration
Are Muslims predominate religious group?
Measure of health of oceans adjacent to country
OECD member state?
Oil production, in barrels per day
Oil production, in metric tons
Impact of organized crime on the economy
Peacefulness of country, 5 ordinal categories
Peacefulness of country
Post-materialism
Political terror scale
Political terror scale
Rating of democracy
Percentage of population age 0-14
Percentage of population age 15-64
Percent of population age 65 and older
Percentage population growth/decline annually
Percentage of the population living in urban areas
Size of national population
Size of national population, 3 ordinal categories
Number of people per square kilometer
Percentage of the population below the poverty line
Proportional representation system?
Freedom of the country's press
Freedom of the country's press
Protest activity
Refugees from the country who live in other countries
Impact of population displacement on country
Refugees from other countries in the country
Regime type
Region name
United Nations region
Largest religion by proportion
Does country reserve seats in national legislature for any group?
Freedom of assembly and association
Freedom of domestic movement
Freedom of foreign movement
Independence of the judiciary
Measure of violations of human right and rule of law
Freedom of Religion
Freedom of speech
Number of international human rights treaties ratified
Women's economic rights
Women's political rights
Worker's rights
Average rating of internet availability in schools
Percentage of labor force that is self-employed
Sex ratio at birth
Social hostility toward religion
Percentage of labor force in the military
Total number of people in the military
Public expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP
Public expenditure on health as a percentage of GDP
Public expenditure on the military as a percentage of GDP
Tariff rate on imports
Taxes (all forms) as a percentage of GDP
Impact of terrorism on the county
International trade as percentage of GDP
Predominant religion
Percentage of labor force that is unemployed
Public expenditure on research and development as a percentage of GDP
Ratio of female to male formal employment rates
Inequality-adjusted income index
Inequality-adjusted education index
Union density
Number of verified cases of journalists imprisoned
Adult literacy rate
Percentage covered by a mobile phone network
Number of adult female deaths per 1,000 females
Number of adult male deaths per 1,000 males
Daily newspapers per thousand people
Death rates from non-communicable diseases
Projected 2030 population in millions
Per capita remittance inflows in US dollars
Remittance inflows as a percentage of GDP
Percentage satisfied with their personal health
Overall life satisfaction
Overall life satisfaction among females
Percentage satisfied with their job
Percentage satisfied with their standard of living
Percentage with at least secondary education
Is country a democracy or autocracy?
Ordinal ranking of democracy, 4 categories
Electoral democracy index
Liberall democracy index
Percent saying religion very important
Economic cost of violence on national economy
Turnout of voting age population in 2010s
Percent women in lower house of legislature
Year women first enfranchised
Year women first enfranchised
Percentage of lower house of legislature aged 40 years or younger
Sources vary. See Appendix of printed textbook for further information.
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