variables: 814743

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id name unit description createdAt updatedAt code coverage timespan datasetId sourceId shortUnit display columnOrder originalMetadata grapherConfigAdmin shortName catalogPath dimensions schemaVersion processingLevel processingLog titlePublic titleVariant attributionShort attribution descriptionShort descriptionFromProducer descriptionKey descriptionProcessing licenses license grapherConfigETL type sort dataChecksum metadataChecksum
814743 Number of states in a region countries   2023-10-03 14:28:37 2024-07-25 23:08:32     1816-2022 6252     
{
    "unit": "countries",
    "numDecimalPlaces": 0
}
 0     number_countries grapher/countries/2023-09-29/cow_ssm/cow_ssm_regions#number_countries   2 minor           Number of states listed in the state system membership list for a given region.   
[
    "For the years until 1919, Correlates of War considers a country a sovereign state if it has a population of at least 500,000 people, and is diplomatically recognized by France and the United Kingdom.",
    "For the years after 1919, a country is considered a sovereign state if it either at any point was a member of the League of Nations or the United Nations, or had a population of at least 500,000 people and was diplomatically recognized by at least two major powers."
]
 We use the state system membership from Correlates of War. We assign each country to a region based on the mapping (using COW codes): - Americas: 2-165 - Europe: 200-399 - Africa: 402-626 - Middle East: 630-698 - Asia and Oceania: 700-999       int 
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