Read the notes about this table.

BBC Country Profiles.

Some points to note:

• There is a table called bbc with nearly 200 records.
• The first record is Afghanistan in Asia
• The final record is Zimbabwe in Africa.
• The table has five columns or attributes . These are:
  • name
  • region
  • area
  • population
  • gdp

An extract from the table bbc

name	region	area	population	gdp
Yemen	Middle East	536869	21500000	12255000000
Zambia	Africa	752614	11000000	4950000000
Zimbabwe	Africa	390759	12900000	6192000000

Per Capita GDP

The per capita GDP is the GDP divided by the population. It is a rough measure of the average salary. A rich country is one with a high per capita GDP.

Original source

This data has been collected from the BBC country profiles - it may be a little out of date. The latest version can be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/default.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/default.stm. Some changes have been made to the data - the reader should assume that errors and omissions are due to me and not the peerless BBC.

Area

The area is measured in square kilometers.

GDP

I have taken the liberty of multiplying the GNI per capita (as published by the BBC) by the population. I am pretty sure that this is not correct but these tutorials are about databases not about economics.

Scientific Notation

Some implementations of SQL may show large numbers in scientific notation. The number 6.23 E9 means 6.23 x 10 ⁹ which is 6.23 x 1,000,000,000 which is 6,230,000,000
A Million is 10 ⁶ which is 1,000,000
A Billion is 10 ⁹ which is one thousand million which is 1,000,000,000
A Trillion is 10 ¹² , which is one million million which is 1,000,000,000,000.