AfricaPopData: Test data for the Africa border Group

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Test data for the Africa border Group

Description

This dataset contains the population and country data for the 52 countries in the African border group.

Usage

data(AfricaPopData)

Format

A data frame with 52 observations, 1 for each African country, on the following "x" variables.

Rank

an integer rank of the country in Africa.

Name

a character vector containing the Africa Country Name.

Abbr

a character vector containing the African Country Abbreviation.

Projection

a numeric vector of the number of the county's population

AvrRelGw

a numeric vector of the average relative population growth.

AvrAbsGw

a numeric vector of the average absolute population growth.

Est2Time

a numeric vector of the estimated time to double the population - years.

OfficialPop

a numeric vector of the official population.

MMDDYY

the date the information was last updated.

PercOf

a numeric vector representing the percentage the country's population is to the total population of Africa.

Details

This dataset was pulled from wikipedica on the population numbers for African countries.

Author(s)

Linda W. Pickle and Jim Pearson of StatNet Consulting, LLC, Gaithersburg, MD

micromapST documentation built on Nov. 12, 2023, 5:06 p.m.