wpp2017-package: World Population Prospects 2017

Description Details Note Source References

Description

Data from the United Nations World Population Prospects 2017, released on June 21, 2017.

Details

Package: wpp2017
Version: 1.2-3
Date: 2020-2-7
URL: http://population.un.org/wpp

The package contains the following datasets:

Note

The package wppExplorer offers a shiny user interface to explore these datasets as well as functions for convenient extraction of information from the data, see function wpp.indicator in wppExplorer, or https://bayespop.shinyapps.io/wpp2017explorer/.

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.


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