women’shasdeclinedslightly,inversingtheirrelativepositions.Althoughthemajorityofcountriesdonothaveasignificantgender gap,ofthosethatdo,38favormenandonly5favorwomen.Theworkplacewouldseemlikeanobviousculprit:ifpeoplearebuildingproficiencyatwork,that’sanareawhere womenarestillunderrepresented,especiallyinhigherpay...
National parks, game reserves, wilderness areas and other legally established protected areas cover more than 10 percent of the total forest area in most countries and regions. FAO estimates that around 10 million people are employed in forest management and conservation - but many more are ...
Definition: Urban land area in square kilometers, based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of Nighttime Lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the Nighttime Lights or approximated urban extents based on buffered settlem...
This study was conducted with the main aim to identify and rank the selected countries of Middle East in tourism area. Input variables including the input costs of tourist and the output costs of tourist, and the output variables including the number of tourists and the amount of revenue from...
Largest Countries in the World The area of the world According to modern estimates, the Earth’s surface area is 510,072,000 square kilometers, with 71 percent covered by ocean and only 29... Infographics Nuclear Power Production by Country Currently, around 401 nuclear power reactors are in...
Features of top-rated gold open access journals: An analysis of the scopus database Purpose The goal is to identify the features of top-rated gold open access (OA) journals by testing seven main variables: languages, countries, years of ac... G Ennas,MCD Guardo - 《Journal of Informetrics...
While most aspects of the American university have been hard hit by rank and brand 'fever,' a few have not yet been affected by it. In this essay, I would like to focus on one of them, and argue why I hope that it never catches the fever. The area that I'm thinking about is ...
Container sea-rail intermodal transport volume via Xiamen Port jumped 27 percent year-on-year through October. The port processed completed 106,800 TEU of cargo in the timeframe. Xiamen Port is connected to 187 liner routes reaching 152 ports in more than 40 countries and across five continents...
Virtually anything can be and is ranked; people, institutions, countries, words, genes. Rankings reduce complex systems to ordered lists, reflecting the ability of their elements to perform relevant functions, and are being used from socioeconomic policy to knowledge extraction. A century of research...
To estimate urban populations, UN ratios of urban to total population were applied to the World Bank's estimates of total population. Countries differ in the way they classify population as "urban" or "rural." The population of a city or metropolitan area depends on the boundaries chosen....