migration: Dataset on Migration

In PPgp/wpp2017: World Population Prospects 2017

Description

Estimates and projections of total net migration.

Usage

data(migration)

Format

Data frame with one row per country. It contains the following variables:

country_code

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

name

Country name.

1950-1955, 1955-1960, ...

Net migration (in thousand) for the specific five-year time period (i.e., from 1 July in year t to 1 July in year t+5 such as the period 1950-1955 refers to the period 1950.5-1955.5 and the mid of the period is 1953.0).

Source

These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2017).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision. http://population.un.org/wpp.

Examples

data(migration)
str(migration)

PPgp/wpp2017 documentation built on Feb. 21, 2020, 4:15 a.m.