cia.factbook: CIA Factbook Details on Countries

In JECheadle/RSOC317L: Data Sets and Supplemental Functions from David Diez's 'OpenIntro' Textbook

Description

Country-level statistics from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Usage

data("cia.factbook")

Format

A data frame with 259 observations on the following 11 variables.

country

Country name.

area

Land area, in square kilometers. (1 square kilometer is 0.386 square miles

birth_rate

Birth rate, in births per 1,000 people.

death_rate

Death rate, in deaths per 1,000 people.

infant_mortality_rate

Infant mortality, in deaths per 1,000 live births.

internet_users

Total number of internet users.

life_exp_at_birth

Live expectancy at birth, in years.

maternal_mortality_rate

Number of female deaths per 100,000 live births where the death is related to pregnancy or birth.

net_migration_rate

Net migration rate.

population

Total population.

population_growth_rate

Population growth rate.

Source

CIA Factbook, Country Comparisons, 2014. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/rankorderguide.html

Examples

data(cia.factbook)
cia.factbook$internet.users.percent <-
    100 * cia.factbook$internet_users / cia.factbook$population
plot(cia.factbook$internet.users.percent, cia.factbook$life_exp_at_birth)

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