tfr: United Nations Time Series of Total Fertility Rate

In wpp2008: World Population Prospects 2008

Description

Datasets containing the United Nations time series of the total fertility rate (TFR) for all countries of the world as available in 2008.

Usage

data(tfr)

Format

The datasets contain one record per country or region. It contains 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, ...

TFR 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(tfr)
head(tfr)

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