Description Usage Format Source References Examples
Datasets containing the United Nations time series of the total fertility rate (TFR) for all countries of the world as available in 2010. Dataset tfr
contains estimates of the historical TFR starting with 1950; tfr_supplemental
contains a subset of countries for which data prior 1950 are available. Datasets tfrprojMed
, tfrprojHigh
and tfrprojLow
contain median, high and low projections, respectively.
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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. The tfrproj*
datasets start at 2010-2015
. The tfr_supplemental
datasets start at 1740-1745
. Missing data have NA
values.
These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011).
World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. (http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp) Special Tabulations.
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head(tfr)
data(tfrprojMed)
str(tfrprojMed)
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