Variable: Region of the country

QoG Code: (ht_region)


Dataset: The Authoritarian Regime Dataset

Description:

This is a tenfold politico-geographic classification of world regions, based on a mixture of two considerations: geographical proximity (with the partial exception of category 5 below) and demarcation by area specialists having contributed to a regional understanding of democratization. The categories are as follow:
1. Eastern Europe and post Soviet Union (including Central Asia)
2. Latin America (including Cuba, Haiti \& the Dominican Republic)
3. North Africa \& the Middle East (including Israel, Turkey \& Cyprus)
4. Sub-Saharan Africa
5. Western Europe and North America (including Australia \& New Zealand)
6. East Asia (including Japan \& Mongolia)
7. South-East Asia
8. South Asia
9. The Pacific (excluding Australia \& New Zealand)
10. The Caribbean (including Belize, Guyana \& Suriname, but excluding Cuba, Haiti \& the Dominican Republic)

Type of variable: Categorical

Downloaded by QoG on: 2025-10-02
Last updated by source: 2017-08-10


Categories:

Environment


Find this variable in:

Basic Cross-section - 2026 Basic Time-series - 2026 OECD Cross-section - 2026 OECD Time-series - 2026 Standard Cross-section - 2026 Standard Time-series - 2026 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section: 194
Basic time-series: 198
Standard cross-section: 194
Standard time-series: 198
OECD cross-section: 32
OECD time-series: 32

Dataset Available for years:
Standard time-series: 1946-2025
Basic time-series: 1946-2025
OECD time-series: 1946-2025

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This variable has information from the year 1946 to the year 2025