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Population Development Environment

Total population (thousands)

Share of persons aged 65 years or

over (percentage)

Under-five mortality

(deaths per 1,000 live births)

Life expectancy

at birth (years)

Adolescent fertility

rate (births per

1,000 women)

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prevalence (percent-

age)

Urbanization (percentage

of total population)

Gross domestic product at PPP

(interna-tional dollars

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Poverty below $1.25

(PPP) a day

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Gini index b

(percent-age)

Mean years of

schooling (years)

Energy use (kilograms

of oil equivalent per capita)

Carbon dioxide

emissions (metric tons per capita)

Sulfur dioxide

emissions (kilograms per capita)

Particulate matter

concentra-tion (urban population weighted

PM10 micrograms

per cubic meter)

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More developed regions c 1 252 805 17 7 78 19.0 71.3 77.7 35 743

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Col. (1) Total population (thousands): Midyear de facto popula-tion. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2013). World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, Tables in Excel Format. Data also available online at: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm.

Col. (2) Share of persons aged 65 years or over (percentage): Population aged 65 years or over as a percentage of the midyear de facto population. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2013). World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, Tables in Excel Format. Data also avail-able online at: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm.

Col. (3) Under-five mortality (deaths per 1,000 live births): Probability of dying between birth and exactly five years of age. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2013). World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, Tables in Excel Format. Data also available online at: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm.

Col. (4) Life expectancy at birth (years): Average number of years of life newborn children would live if subject to the mortal-ity rates prevailing for the given year. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2013). World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, Tables in Excel Format. Data also available online at: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm.

Col. (5) Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women): Number of births to women aged 15 to 19 years, divided by the num-ber of women in that age group. The data refer to the five-year period running from 1 July 2010 to 30 June 2015. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2013). World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, Tables in Excel Format. Data also available online at: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm.

Col. (6) Contraceptive prevalence (percentage): Percentage of married or in-union women aged 15 to 49 years who are currently using any method of contraception or whose sexual partner is using contraception. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2012). World Contraceptive Use 2012, POP/DB/CP/Rev2012. Data available online at: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/dataset/ contraception/wcu2012/MainFrame.html.

Col. (7) Urbanization (percentage of total population): Per centage of population residing in areas classified as urban accord-ing to the criteria used by each country or territory. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2012). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2011 Revision, CD-ROM Edition, POP/DB/WUP/Rev.2011. Data available online at: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/CD-ROM/Urban-Rural-Population.htm.

Col. (8) Gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) (international dollars per capita): Annual sum of gross value added by all resident producers in the economy, plus any product taxes, minus any subsidies not included in the value of the products, converted to international dollars using purchas-ing power parity rates, and divided by midyear de facto population.

An international dollar has the same purchasing power over GDP as the U.S. dollar has in the United States. Source: The World Bank (2013). World Development Indicators 2013 Database. Data avail-able online at: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD/countries?display=default.

Col. (9) Poverty headcount ratio at $1.25 (in purchasing power parity—PPP) a day (percentage of total popula-tion): Percentage of the total population living on less than $1.25 a day at 2005 international prices based on nominal per capita con-sumption averages and distributions estimated parametrically from grouped household survey data. Source: The World Bank (2013). World Development Indicators 2013 Database, Online tables. Data available online at: http://wdi.worldbank.org/table.

Col. (10) Gini index (percentage): Measure of the deviation of the distribution of income (or, in some cases, consumption expendi-ture) among individuals or households within an economy from a perfectly equal distribution, expressed as a percentage. A Gini index of 0 represents perfect equality, while an index of 100 implies per-fect inequality. Source: The World Bank (2013). World Development Indicators 2013 Database, Online tables. Data available online at: http://wdi.worldbank.org/table.

Col. (11) Mean years of schooling (years): Average number of years of formal education received by persons aged 25 years or over, converted from education attainment levels using official durations of each level. Source: Barro and Lee (2010). Barro-Lee Educational Attainment Dataset. Education Attainment for Population Aged 25 and Over. Data available online at: http://www.barrolee.com.

Col. (12) Energy use (kilograms of oil equivalent per capita): Annual consumption of primary energy before transformation to other end-use fuels, which is equal to indigenous production, plus imports and stock changes, minus exports and fuels supplied to ships and aircraft engaged in international transport, and divided by midyear de facto population. Energy use is expressed in oil equiva-lent. Source: The World Bank (2013). World Development Indicators 2013 Database, Online tables. Data available online at: http://wdi.worldbank.org/table.

Col. (13) Carbon dioxide emissions (metric tons per capita): Annual volume of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions stem-ming from fossil fuel combustion, gas flaring and the production of cement, divided by midyear de facto population. Source: The World Bank (2013). World Development Indicators 2013 Database, Online tables. Data available online at: http://wdi.worldbank.org/table.

Col. (14) Sulfur dioxide emissions (kilograms per capita): Annual volume of anthropogenic sulfur dioxide emissions stemming mainly from fossil fuel combustion at power plants and other industrial facilities, divided by midyear de facto population. Source: Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP), Yale University and Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University (2012). 2012 Environmental Performance Index. Data available online at: http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/downloads/data/epi/epi-environmental-performance-index-pilot-trend-2012/2012-epi.xls.

Col. (15) Particulate matter concentration (urban population weighted PM10 micrograms per cubic meter): Fine suspended particulates less than 10 microns in diameter (PM10) that are capable of penetrating deep into the respiratory tract and causing significant health damage. Data are urban-population weighted PM10 levels in residential areas of cities with more than 100,000 residents. The esti-mates represent the average annual exposure level of the average urban resident to outdoor particulate matter. Source: The World Bank (2013). World Development Indicators 2013 Database, Online tables. Data available online at: http://wdi.worldbank.org/table.

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Definitions and Sources

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