Variable: Percentage of desert in 2012

QoG Code: (nunn_desert)


Dataset: Country Ruggedness and Geographical Data (2012)

Description:

The percentage of the land surface area of each country covered by sandy desert, dunes, rocky or lava flows, was calculated on the basis of the desert layer of the Collins Bartholomew World Premium digital map data (Collins Bartholomew, 2005) and the country boundaries described above. This was initially computed as a cruder measure of soil (in)fertility for an early draft of the paper and is no longer used in the final version. Nunn and Puga have left it in the dataset in case it is of use to other researchers.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-08-30
Last updated by source: 2010-11-12


Categories:

Environment


Find this variable in:

Basic Cross-section - 2024 OECD Cross-section - 2024 Standard Cross-section - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section: 191
Standard cross-section: 191
OECD cross-section: 38


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