| Education |
Mean years of schooling of adults aged 25+ (MYS) |
Average years of schooling for the population aged 25 or more years. |
0 |
15 |
Eurostat, GDL-AD, UNDP, …Varying sources (see details in Supplementary information) |
When only educational attainment data was available, we imputed the corresponding years of schooling. |
| Education |
Expected years of schooling (EYS) |
Number of years of schooling a child of school entrance age can expect to receive, if prevailing patterns of age-specific enrolment rates persist throughout the child’s schooling life |
0 |
18 |
Eurostat, GDL-AD, UNDP, …Varying sources (see details in Supplementary information) |
Lacking for HICs outside EU. |
| Health |
Life expectancy at birth (LIFEX) |
Number of years newborn children would live if subject to the mortality risks prevailing for the cross-section of population at the time of their birth. |
20 |
85 |
Eurostat, GDL-AD, UNDP, …Varying sources (see details in Supplementary information) |
In case of missing data, LIFEX was estimated using information on child mortality (see methods section). |
| Standard of living |
(Log of) Gross national income per capita (LGNIc) |
(Log of) Sum of value added by all resident producers plus any product taxes (less subsidies) not included in the valuation of output plus net receipts of primary income (compensation of employees and property income) from abroad |
100 |
75000 |
Eurostat, GDL-AD, UNDP, …Varying sources (see details in Supplementary information) |
LGNIc is based on Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) in 2011 US$. In case of missing data, LGNIc was estimated on the basis of IWI scores (see methods section). |
