To provide a global subnational map of infant mortality rate estimates that can be used by a wide user community in interdisciplinary studies of health, poverty and the environment.

To preserve access to the original biodiversity data used by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and other related research.

To preserve access to the original set of socioeconomic and natural resource scenarios used by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and other related research.

To provide a vector (point) version of the input administrative units used in GPWv3 for use in data integration.

To create a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability and to provide a mechanism for making environmental management more quantitative, empirically grounded and systematic.

To provide tabular data on human appropriation of net primary productivity by country.

To provide insights into the processes that can negatively influence the sustainable development of countries, with particular reference to vulnerability to natural hazards.

To provide data on country-level GDP per capita and downscaled projections based on the SRES A1, A2, B1, B2 marker scenarios.

To provide data on country-level population and downscaled projections based on the SRES B2 marker scenario.

To provide data on country-level population and downscaled projections based on the SRES A1, B1, and A2 marker scenarios.

To provide tabular data on environmental conditions (elevations, climate, coastal) in which people reside.

To provide a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability covering a number of sustainability dimensions.

To provide data to gauge broad similarities and differences of national progress on sustainability of countries, over time and relative to other nations.

To provide a comparative index of national-level environmental sustainability based on lessons learned from the year 2000 pilot effort.

To provide data that address the key issues of sustainability by combining indicators of human wellbeing with those of environmental sustainability to generate a more comprehensive picture of the state of the world.

To provide fluor-gases emissions data that can be used in interdisciplinary studies of the environment.

To provide new emissions scenarios for the IPCC Assessment Reports.

To provide the projections of anthropogenic emissions of gases that have the potential to affect climate change.

To provide gridded emissions data that can be used in interdisciplinary studies of the environment.

To provide an assessment of potential climate change impacts on world crop production, including quantitative estimates of yield changes of major food.