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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 23.
Published in final edited form as: Am Econ Rev. 2012 Apr;102(2):994–1028. doi: 10.1257/aer.102.2.994

Table 1. Night Lights Data for Selected Countries, 1992-2008 average.

DN Bangladesh USA Canada Netherlands Brazil Costa Rica Guatemala Madagascar Mozambique Malawi
0 66.72% 69.32% 93.89% 1.00% 94.02% 59.26% 79.23% 99.73% 99.47% 97.67%
1-2 0.637% 0.110% 0.001% 0.000% 0.001% 1.060% 0.244% 0.005% 0.031% 0.000%
3-5 24.48% 10.85% 1.65% 3.45% 2.60% 24.79% 13.84% 0.15% 0.28% 0.93%
6-10 5.27% 9.60% 2.48% 24.04% 1.83% 9.26% 4.17% 0.06% 0.11% 0.85%
11-20 1.69% 4.53% 1.09% 28.83% 0.77% 3.00% 1.46% 0.03% 0.05% 0.27%
21-62 1.13% 5.02% 0.83% 41.10% 0.73% 2.33% 0.95% 0.03% 0.05% 0.27%
63-66 0.06% 0.58% 0.05% 1.58% 0.06% 0.31% 0.10% 0.0001% 0.0003% 0.0012%
% unlit 66.94% 66.20% 92.54% 1.05% 94.31% 60.70% 80.42% 99.74% 99.51% 97.15%
avg. DN 2.0108 4.6648 0.9381 23.5244 0.6342 3.1401 1.4059 0.0233 0.0435 0.3010
gini(DN) 0.7879 0.8471 0.9643 0.3925 0.9689 0.7734 0.8822 0.9985 0.9974 0.9865
pop. density (per sq. km) 1,080 31 3 469 21 76 105 26 23 125
percent urban 24% 79% 79% 76% 81% 59% 45% 27% 30% 15%
GDP per capita, PPP (2005 $) 917 37,953 31,058 32,226 8,046 8,167 3,905 892 546 672
GDP per capita (2000 $) 344 33,582 22,531 23,208 3,760 4,084 1,693 249 252 143
annual %ΔGDP, 1992-2008 5.38% 3.04% 3.18% 2.70% 3.21% 5.02% 3.96% 3.18% 7.52% 3.65%
annual %Δ lights, 1992-2008 0.57% 0.38% −0.42% 0.36% 2.92% 4.10% 6.35% 2.41% 6.71% 2.06%

Notes:

1) % area unlit accounts for differences in cell area, whereas the percentage of cells having digital number 0, 1-2, etc. does not.

2) Each figure is calculated within satellite-years, averaged across satellites within a year, and then across years.