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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 25.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet. 2014 Jan 20;383(9914):343–355. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62185-6

Figure 2. The Arab world in global context.

Figure 2

(A) After improvement in the 1980s, under-5 mortality is now slightly better than the global average. (B) Life expectancy at birth is slightly greater than the global average. (C) The Arab world is the most autocratic region in the world, according to electoral democracy scores from the Polity IV dataset, where a polity2 score of 10 is democracy and a score of −10 is autocracy. (D) Corruption in the Arab world is high according to World Governance Indicator data, where 0 is the global average; the Arab world fares consistently only better than sub-Saharan Africa since 1996. Data from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation mortality estimates, World Bank Databank, Polity IV dataset, and the World Bank/Brookings World Governance Indicators (panel 1).