R/world_counts.R

In excessmort: Excess Mortality

#' Weekly death counts for several countries
#'
#' A data frame with weekly death counts from multiple countries that includes the year 2020. 
#' Each country has a different range of data and most countries have at least 5 years of pre-2020 data.
#' The original data was collated by the Financial Times .
#' 
#'  \itemize{
#'  \item country Name of the country
#'  \item date Corresponding date of observation
#'  \item outcome Estimated number of deaths
#'  \item population Population estimate (from the Census)}
#'  
#' @usage data(world_counts)
#' 
#' @format An object of class \code{"data.frame"}
#' 
#' @docType data

"world_counts"