variables: 814765

This table contains all the variables of all the datasets we have at Our World In Data. Note that this includes only the information about the variables like name and default display settings, not the data itself.

Data license: CC-BY

This data as json

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
814765 Number of states in a region countries   2023-10-03 15:25:02 2024-07-25 23:08:31     1816-2022 6254     
{
    "unit": "countries",
    "numDecimalPlaces": 0
}
 0     number_countries grapher/countries/2023-10-01/gleditsch/gleditsch_regions#number_countries   2 minor           Number of states (and microstates) in each region.   
[
    "Gleditsch and Ward consider a country a sovereign state if its administration of a territory is relatively autonomous and it is considered independent by local actors and other states. They discuss many cases here: http://ksgleditsch.com/data/iisyst_casedesc.pdf"
]
 We use the list of independent states and microstates from Gleditsch and Ward. We assign each country to a region based on the mapping (using GW codes): - Americas: 2-199 - Europe: 200-399 - Africa: 400-626 - Middle East: 630-699 - Asia and Oceania: 700-999       int 
[]
 92137c1434e15abc8aa082d77c95e2c1 8e10730b48b8ab5b05cc221c6fafa37d

Links from other tables