slave_trade: Slave trade and economic development

In necountries: Countries of the World

Slave trade and economic development

Description

a cross-section of 52 countries from 2000

Format

a tibble containing:

• country: the country name

• region: one of 'north', 'east', 'central', 'south', 'west'

• disteq: distance from equator

• longitude: longitude

• area: area in thousands of km squared

• pop: average population during the slave trade period

• coastline: log coastlines divided by the country area

• island: island indicator

• islam: percent islamic

• colony: previous colonizator, one of 'none', 'uk', 'france', 'portugal', 'belgium', 'spain', 'germany', 'italy'

• legor: legal origin, one of 'french' and 'british'

• gdp: log real gdp per capita in 2000

• slaves: number of slaves

• slavesarea: number of slaves divided by the country area

• humidmax: average maximum humidity

• rainmin: lowest month rainfall

• lowtemp: average minimum temperature

• gold: log gold production per inhabitant

• oil: log oil production per inhabitant

• diamond: log diamonds production per inhabitant

• atlantic: distance to the atlantic ocean

• indian: distance to the indian ocean

• redsea: distance to the red sea

• sahara: distance to sahara

Source

Nathan Nunn's website https://nathannunn.arts.ubc.ca/

References

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