e0: United Nations Time Series of Life Expectancy

In wpp2008: World Population Prospects 2008

Description

Datasets containing the United Nations time series of the life expectancy (e0) for all countries of the world as available in 2008. Datasets e0F contains estimates for female historical e0; e0M contains estimates for male historical e0.

Usage

data(e0F)
data(e0M)

Format

The datasets contain one record per country or region. They contain the following variables:

country

Name of country or region (following ISO 3166 official short names in English - see http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/english_country_names_and_code_elements.htm and United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database - see http://unterm.un.org).

country_code

Numerical Location Code (3-digit codes following ISO 3166-1 numeric standard) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric.

1950-1955, 1955-1960, ...

Life expectancy in various five-year time intervals.

Source

These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision. Special Tabulations.

Examples

data(e0M)
head(e0M)

Example output

                                                      country country_code
1                                                       WORLD          900
2                                      More developed regions          901
3                                      Less developed regions          902
4                                   Least developed countries          941
5 Less developed regions, excluding least developed countries          934
6                     Less developed regions, excluding China          948
  1950-1955 1955-1960 1960-1965 1965-1970 1970-1975 1975-1980 1980-1985
1     45.23     48.07     50.98     54.59     56.59     58.32     59.75
2     63.43     65.47     66.68     67.18     67.72     68.41     69.11
3     40.26     43.37     46.86     51.47     53.99     56.10     57.74
4     35.75     37.86     39.79     41.74     43.33     44.81     46.88
5     40.94     44.20     47.95     53.03     55.78     58.10     59.71
6     40.76     43.53     46.12     48.64     50.95     53.40     55.34
  1985-1990 1990-1995 1995-2000 2000-2005 2005-2010
1     61.18     61.88     63.00     64.21     65.41
2     70.34     70.26     71.34     72.19     73.56
3     59.23     60.24     61.46     62.78     63.91
4     48.43     49.12     50.80     52.75     54.67
5     61.21     62.37     63.64     64.90     65.96
6     57.06     58.06     59.31     60.63     61.90

wpp2008 documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:24 a.m.