Births: Number of births registered in France from 1968 to 2024

BirthsR Documentation

Number of births registered in France from 1968 to 2024

Description

Daily number of births recorded in France (metropolitan + DOM), covering the period from January 1, 1968 to December 31, 2024.

Usage

Births

Format

A data frame with 20,820 rows and 2 variables:

  • date: Date of the value (from 1968-01-01 to 2024-12-31)

  • births: Number of daily births (1254–2830)

Details

The dataset corresponds to the INSEE series T79jnais. The raw data can be downloaded as a CSV file here: https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/8582123/T79jnais.csv

Source

INSEE, Statistiques de l'état civil – https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8582123?sommaire=8582147

Examples

data(Births)
plot(Births$date, Births$births,
     type = "l",
     main = "Daily births in France",
     ylab = "Number of births",
     xlab = "date")


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