Effect of marine protected areas and macroeconomic environment on meat consumption in SEAFO countries

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 1 SEAFO countries descriptive statistics

Panel A: macroeconomic characteristics of SEAFO countries, 1990–2009
Countries	Meat consumption (kg/person)	Real GDP ($ million)	Trade (ratio)	Urbanisation (% GDP)	Food prices (index)	MPA^* (%)	Convenience (index)	Life expectancy (years)
Developing
Angola	16.65	257,203	26.40	32.198	0.911	0.07	− 0.07	45
Namibia	28.53	6022.7	65.88	32.95	0.808	0.897	0.147	58
South Africa	43.29	220,586	22.24	56.75	0.996	2.977	0.19	57
Average Developing	29.49	161,270.57	38.17	40.63	0.905	1.314	0.089	53
Developed
Japan	43.6	4,301,857	8.733	81.362	1.071	4.534	0.023	81
South Korea	43.55	703,547.8	14.93	79.13	1.057	3.56	− 0.25	76
Norway	59.85	266,480	9.95	75.505	0.969	1.68	0.16	79
EU	88.86	12,700,000	31.25	72.73	1.01	10.811	2.39	77
Average Developed	58.96	4,492,971.2	16.215	77.18	1.026	5.146	0.58	78
Panel B: pairwise correlations
	Meat consumption	Real GDP	Trade	Urbanisation	Food prices	MPA	Convenience	Life expectancy
Meat consumption	1
Real GDP	0.77^**	1
Trade	− 0.27^**	− 0.51^**	1
Urbanisation	0.79^**	0.86^**	− 0.70^**	1
Food prices	0.29^**	0.36^**	− 0.27^**	0.40^**	1
MPA	0.69^**	0.76^**	− 0.02	0.53^**	0.23^**	1
Convenience	0.17^**	0.19^**	0.11	0.04	− 0.07	0.39^**	1
Life expectancy	0.77^**	0.74^**	− 0.55^**	0.87^**	0.33^**	0.48^**	0.07	1

Panel A displays the socio-economic characteristics of SEAFO countries grouped into developed and developing countries with unit of measurement in parentheses, while panel B shows the cross-country descriptive statistics of variables in their logarithm forms apart from MPA and convenience. MPA is the weighted average of the percentage of territorial waters protected for conservation attributes
*, ** and ***level of significance at the 10%, 5% and 1% respectively