Reference list of countries and territories with small-island classifications

A curated dataset of 251 countries and territories, including sub-sovereign island jurisdictions (Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, Sint Maarten, the French overseas collectivities, Aaland Islands, and others) that are typically collapsed or omitted by ISO 3166-1 country-code lists.

Usage

islands

Format

A data frame with 251 rows and 18 columns:

name: Short common name (e.g. "Aruba", "Curacao", "Bonaire").
label: Display label, used by the upstream XLSForm survey.
iso_code: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code, with hyphenated extensions for the three BES islands (BQ-BO Bonaire, BQ-SE Sint Eustatius, BQ-SA Saba) so they can be distinguished within the shared BQ prefix.
wb_region: World Bank region.
wb_income_group: World Bank income group.
political_association: Sovereign power for non-independent territories; "Independent" otherwise.
is_sids: 1 if a UN-DESA recognised Small Island Developing State (member or associate); 0 otherwise.
sids_tier: "Sovereign member", "Associate member", or NA where not applicable.
is_snij: 1 if a sub-national island jurisdiction; 0 otherwise.
criterion_small: 1 if meets the small-population/small-area criterion; 0 otherwise.
criterion_island: 1 if an island or archipelago; 0 otherwise.
criterion_developing: 1 if classified as developing; 0 otherwise.
criterion_sovereign: 1 if a sovereign state; 0 otherwise.
latitude: Representative point on the main landmass, WGS84 decimal degrees. NA for United States Minor Outlying Islands.
longitude: Representative point on the main landmass, WGS84 decimal degrees.
capital: Capital city name, or NA for uninhabited / capital-less territories.
capital_latitude: Capital city, WGS84 decimal degrees.
capital_longitude: Capital city, WGS84 decimal degrees.

Source

University of Aruba, Digital Competence Dutch Caribbean (DCDC) Network. island-research-reference-data, CC BY 4.0. https://github.com/University-of-Aruba/island-research-reference-data

Examples

head(islands)
#>   name          label iso_code                  wb_region     wb_income_group
#> 1   AF    Afghanistan       AF                 South Asia          Low income
#> 2   AX  Åland Islands       AX      Europe & Central Asia         High income
#> 3   AL        Albania       AL      Europe & Central Asia Upper-middle income
#> 4   DZ        Algeria       DZ Middle East & North Africa Lower-middle income
#> 5   AS American Samoa       AS        East Asia & Pacific Upper-middle income
#> 6   AD        Andorra       AD      Europe & Central Asia         High income
#>   political_association is_sids        sids_tier is_snij criterion_small
#> 1           Independent       0             <NA>       0               0
#> 2               Finland       0             <NA>       1               1
#> 3           Independent       0             <NA>       0               0
#> 4           Independent       0             <NA>       0               0
#> 5         United States       1 Associate member       1               1
#> 6           Independent       0             <NA>       0               1
#>   criterion_island criterion_developing criterion_sovereign latitude longitude
#> 1                0                    1                   1  34.1643   66.4966
#> 2                1                    0                   0  60.1565   19.8697
#> 3                0                    1                   1  40.6549   20.1138
#> 4                0                    1                   1  27.3974    2.8082
#> 5                1                    1                   0 -14.3267 -170.7472
#> 6                0                    0                   1  42.5476    1.5394
#>     capital capital_latitude capital_longitude
#> 1     Kabul          34.5186           69.1813
#> 2 Mariehamn          60.0970           19.9490
#> 3    Tirana          41.3275           19.8189
#> 4   Algiers          36.7650            3.0486
#> 5 Pago Pago         -14.2766         -170.7066
#> 6   Andorra          42.5108            1.5266

# SIDS by World Bank region
table(islands$wb_region[islands$is_sids == 1])
#> 
#>        East Asia & Pacific  Latin America & Caribbean 
#>                         21                         28 
#> Middle East & North Africa              North America 
#>                          1                          1 
#>                 South Asia         Sub-Saharan Africa 
#>                          1                          6 

# Dutch Kingdom territories (an example of the SNIJ axis)
islands[islands$political_association == "Dutch Kingdom",
        c("name", "iso_code", "is_sids", "is_snij")]
#>      name iso_code is_sids is_snij
#> 13     AW       AW       1       1
#> 28  BQ_BO    BQ-BO       0       1
#> 58     CW       CW       1       1
#> 157    NL       NL       0       0
#> 186 BQ_SA    BQ-SA       0       1
#> 203 BQ_SE    BQ-SE       0       1
#> 204    SX       SX       1       1

# Coordinates: representative landmass point and capital city
islands[islands$iso_code == "AW",
        c("name", "latitude", "longitude", "capital",
          "capital_latitude", "capital_longitude")]
#>    name latitude longitude    capital capital_latitude capital_longitude
#> 13   AW  12.5174  -69.9728 Oranjestad          12.5215          -70.0255