PopByAge: Estimates and Projections of Population Counts

In wpp2010: World Population Prospects 2010

Description

Datasets with age-specific male and female historical population estimates and projections.

Usage

data(popM)
data(popF)

Format

Data frames with one row per country and age group. For each country there are 21 age groups. It contains the following variables:

country

Country name.

country_code

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

age

A character string representing an age interval. For each country there are 21 values: “0-4”, “5-9”, “10-14”, “15-19”, “20-24”, “25-29”, “30-34”, “35-39”, “40-44”, “45-49”, “50-54”, “55-59”, “60-64”, “65-69”, “70-74”, “75-79”, “80-84”, “85-89”, “90-94”, “95-99”, and “100+” in that order.

1950, 1955, ...

Population estimate or projection for the given time.

Source

These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. (http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp) Special Tabulations.

Examples

data(popM)
str(popM)

wpp2010 documentation built on May 2, 2019, 2:50 p.m.