Country Geography Data
Variables: Latitude and longitude of each country's centroid, mean elevation, mean distance to nearest ice-free coastline, mean distance to nearest ice-free coastline or sea-navigable river, distance from a country's centroid to nearest coastline, distance from a country's centroid to nearest coastline or sea-navigable river, total population, percent of population within 100km of the coastline, percent of the population within 100km of the nearest coastline or sea-navigable river, percent of land area within 100km of the coastline, percent of land area within 100km of the nearest coastline or sea-navigable river, percent of population in the geographic tropics, percent land area in the geographic tropics, and the typical population density an average person experiences, by country.
data (Stata dataset & ASCII file)
Koeppen-Geiger climate zones
Variables: percent land area and population of each climate zone, by country.
data (Stata dataset & ASCII file)
Variables: Yellow fever (1952 and 1996); plague (1952); leprosy (1952); leishmaniasis (1954, 3 kinds), visceral leishmaniasis (1984); helminthiases (1952, 13 kinds including hookworm and schistosomiases); dengue fever (1951 and 1975 to 1995); schistosomiasis (1987); and lymphatic filiriases (1984).
Disease area by country: documentation
data (Stata dataset & ASCII file)
Population in areas by country: documentation
data (Stata dataset & ASCII file)
Malaria
Variables: Area affected by malaria in 1946, 1966, 1982 and 1994, and area affected by malaria weighted by 1995 population in 1946, 1966, 1982 and 1994.
data (Stata dataset & ASCII file)
Variables: FAO soil suitability (two types), percent of Matthews'* cultivated land in each Köppen-Geiger** climate zone, percent of Matthews' cultivated land -- using a revised classification scheme -- in each Köppen-Geiger climate zone, percent land area in each Köppen-Geiger climate zone weighted by Matthews' cultivated land, percent land area in each Köppen-Geiger climate zone weighted by a revised Matthews' cultivated land classification, by country.
data (Stata dataset & ASCII file)
*Matthews, E. 1983. "Global Vegetation and Land Use: New High Resolution Databases for Climate Studies," Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology 22:474-487. GIS file available at www.grid.unep.ch.
** Geiger, R. and W. Pohl. 1954. Revision of the Köppen-Geiger Klimakarte der Erde (Darmstadt: Justus Perthes, 1953), 4 sheets, 1:16 million: R. Geiger, "Eine neue Wandkarte der Klimagebiete der Erde," Erdkunde, Vol. 8 (1954), pp. 58-61.
