Area Database (archived) version archive

	Publication date	Data file	Label file	Documentation
Version 3.6.0	10 September 2019	GDL-AreaData360.csv	GDL-AreaData360-Variabledescription.csv	Smits GDL Working Paper 16-101 v360.pdf
	126 indicators	New data added for Benin, Jordan, Ghana, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Uganda and Tunisia. Number of subnational regions extended to 1337 by increasing regional subdivision for Albania, Angola, Bangladesh, Congo Brazzaville, Nigeria, and Tanzania.
	128 countries
	1337 sub-national regions
Version 3.5.0	27 April 2019	GDL-AreaData350.csv	GDL-AreaData350-Variabledescription.csv	Smits GDL Working Paper 16-101 v350.pdf
	120 indicators	Data added for Albania, Congo Brazzaville, Lao, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tajikistan, Thailand.
	127 countries
	1237 sub-national regions
Version 3.4.0	19 January 2019	GDL-AreaData340.csv	GDL-AreaData340-Variabledescription.csv	Smits GDL Working Paper 16-101 v340.pdf
	116 indicators	Data added for Burundi, East Timor, Ghana, Haiti, Nepal, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, and Senegal.
	127 countries
	1236 sub-national regions
Version 3.3.1	25 April 2018	GDL-AreaData331.csv	GDL-AreaData331-Variabledescription.csv	n/a
	116 indicators	Version 3.3.1. Continents and world regions of countries added.
	126 countries
	1231 sub-national regions
Version 3.3.0	23 February 2018	GDL-AreaData330.csv	GDL-AreaData330-Variabledescription.csv	Smits GDL Working Paper 16-101 v330.pdf
	114 indicators	The countries in the Area Database now have a link to the nearest houses in Dollarstreet, so that users can get an impression of the way people live in the region where the country is located.
	126 countries
	1232 sub-national regions
Version 3.2.0	6 February 2018	GDL-AreaData320.csv	GDL-AreaData320-Variabledescription.csv	Smits GDL Working Paper 16-101 v320.pdf
	114 indicators	Data for India 2016 added and number of regions for Colombia increased
	126 countries
	1232 sub-national regions
Version 3.1.0	28 November 2017	GDL-AreaData310.csv	GDL-AreaData310-Variabledescription.csv	Smits GDL Working Paper 16-101 v310.pdf
	114 indicators	Fertility rates improved. Data for Angola, Armenia, Botswana, Ethiopia, Fiji, Iran, Mexico, Senegal and South Africa added. Urbanization as new indicator added.
	126 countries
	1206 sub-national regions
Version 3.0.0	12 September 2017	GDL-AreaData300.csv	GDL-AreaData300-Variabledescription.csv	Smits GDL Working Paper 16-101 v300.pdf
	113 indicators	New data added for Albania, Belarus, Bosnia Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Sao Tome & Principe, Serbia, Somalia, Swaziland. Total countries now 125. Child mortality data improved and extended.
	125 countries
	1193 sub-national regions	This version has been archived with Dans-Easy with permalink https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-z5f-sdrx.
Version 2.9.0	21 July 2017	GDL-AreaData290.csv	GDL-AreaData290-Variabledescription.csv	n/a
	113 indicators	Data added for Barbados, Belize, China, Guinea Bissau, Guyana, Kyrgyzstan, St. Lucia, Turkey, Venezuela. Indicators for neonatal and under-5 mortality improved.
	119 countries
	1152 sub-national regions
Version 2.8.0	12 May 2017	GDL-AreaData280.csv	GDL-AreaData280-Variabledescription.csv	n/a
	106 indicators	Data added for Afghanistan, Colombia, Chile, El Salvador, Malawi, Mexico, Myanmar, Palestine, Sudan, Turkmenistan, Vietnam.
	117 countries
	1140 sub-national regions