HMDdata: Population and Mortality Data
In MortalitySmooth: Smoothing and Forecasting Poisson Counts with P-Splines

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Age-specific population, deaths, exposures and rates from the Human Mortality Database.

1	data(HMDdata)

Object of class HMDdata containing, for each country, the following components:

country: country name.
year: vector of years.
age: vector of ages.
pop: list of matrices containing population with one age group per row and one column per year. Matrices: female, male, total.
death: list of matrices containing deaths in same form as pop.
exposure: list of matrices containing exposure in same form as pop.
rate: list of matrices containing mortality rate in same form as pop.

The list contained 4 countries (Denmark, Japan, Sweden and Switzerland). Data taken from the Human Mortality Database on 30 August 2011. Data are accessible either manually or using selectHMDdata.

For a given country, the matrices have the same dimensions. The vector age is the same for each country (0:110), whereas years depends on the availability.

pop indicates population size on January 1st of each age and year.

death are death counts occurred during one age-year interval.

exposure population is approximated by the average of the population size in the beginning and at the end of the year.

rate are computed as ratio between death counts and exposures.

Carlo G Camarda

Human Mortality Database www.mortality.org

Human Mortality Database (2011). University of California, Berkeley (USA), and Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany). Available at www.mortality.org.

selectHMDdata.

data(HMDdata)
plot(HMDdata$Japan$year, HMDdata$Japan$pop$female[81,],
     main="Japan population, female, age 80") 
## list of available countries
names(HMDdata)

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[1] "Denmark"     "Japan"       "Sweden"      "Switzerland"