TABLE 2.
Demographic and Political Characteristics of UGC-Vilnius and CWRU Trainee Home Countries.
| Country | 2012 Population (millions) | Area (km2) | GDP (millions of USD) | Human Development Index [UNDP] | % Below poverty line [CIA] | Health expenditure
|
Corruption Perceptions Index [Transparency International]1* | Gender Inequality Index [UNDP] | Registered clinical trials (active/listed) [ClinicalTrials.gov]§ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| %GDP [CIA] | Per capita [WHO] | |||||||||
| Belarus | 9.4 | 207,600 | 63,000 | 50 | 6 | 5.8 | $ 782 | 31 | N.A. | 511 / 1986 |
| Croatia | 4.3 | 56,542 | 57,000 | 47 | 18 | 7.8 | $ 1,556 | 46 | 0.179 | 11 / 472 |
| Czech Republic | 10.5 | 78,866 | 196,000 | 28 | 9 | 7.6 | $ 2,107 | 54 | 0.122 | 474 / 1864 |
| Estonia | 1.3 | 45,226 | 22,000 | 33 | 18 | 4.3 | $ 1,338 | 64 | 0.158 | 86 / 436 |
| FYR Macedonia | 2.1 | 25,713 | 10,000 | 78 | 31 | 6.9 | $ 763 | 43 | 0.162 | 29 / 90 |
| Georgia | 4.5 | 69,700 | 16,000 | 72 | 10 | 11.3 | $ 487 | 52 | 0.436 | 18 / 64 |
| Kazakhstan | 16.8 | 2,724,900 | 196,000 | 69 | 8 | 4.3 | $ 514 | 28 | 0.312 | 6 / 21 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 5.5 | 199,900 | 7,000 | 125 | 34 | 4.1 | $ 148 | 24 | 0.357 | 1 / 3 |
| Latvia | 2.0 | 64,589 | 28,000 | 44 | 6 | 8.1 | $ 1,066 | 49 | 0.216 | 92 / 396 |
| Lithuania | 3.2 | 65,200 | 42,000 | 41 | 4 | 7.8 | $ 1,292 | 54 | 0.157 | 118 / 438 |
| Moldova | 3.6 | 33,843 | 7,000 | 113 | 22 | 11.9 | $ 357 | 36 | 0.303 | 7 / 29 |
| Poland | 38.5 | 312,685 | 488,000 | 39 | 11 | 7.1 | $ 1,391 | 58 | 0.140 | 681 / 2699 |
| Romania | 19.1 | 238,391 | 169,000 | 56 | 21 | 5.4 | $ 818 | 44 | 0.327 | 306 / 1167 |
| Russia | 143.1 | 17,075,400 | 2,022,000 | 55 | 13 | 5.4 | $ 1,043 | 28 | 0.312 | 511 / 1986 |
| Serbia | 7.1 | 88,361 | 92,000 | 64 | 9 | 9.9 | $ 1,162 | 39 | N.A. | 106 / 434 |
| Slovakia | 5.5 | 48,845 | 37,000 | 35 | 21 | 8.5 | $ 2,084 | 46 | 0.171 | 208 / 859 |
| Tajikistan | 7.8 | 143,100 | 7,500 | 125 | 47 | 5.3 | $ 123 | 22 | 0.338 | 1 / 1 |
| Ukraine | 45.7 | 603,628 | 176,000 | 78 | 35 | 7.0 | $ 485 | 26 | 0.338 | none recorded |
*
Corruption Perception Index (CPI) and CPI World Ranking as reported by Transparency International for 2012. The CPI is an estimate of perceived corruption in the public sector (0–100, with 0 being the most corrupt and 100 being the least corrupt. For the 176 countries for which Transparency International has data, Finland is the least corrupt (CPI = 90) and Somalia and Afghanistan the most corrupt (CPI = 8 for both).
§
As listed on April 12, 2012 in the NIH-run ClinicalTrials.gov database.