MigrationFlows: Human Migration between Countries

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Human Migration between Countries

Description

The number of people who moved in from one country to another. Data are provided for 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000. There are separate counts for males and females.

Usage

data("MigrationFlows")

Format

A data frame with 107184 observations on the following 8 variables:

sex

a factor with levels Female and Male

destcode

three letter country codes indicating the destination of the migrants

origincode

three letter country codes indicating where the migrants left

Y2000

Migration in year 2000. The value is the number of people (males and females separately) who migrated from the origin country to the destination country.

Y1990

Migration in year 1990

Y1980

Migration in year 1980

Y1970

Migration in year 1970

Y1960

Migration in year 1960

Source

The World Bank's Global Bilateral Migration Database: http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/global-bilateral-migration-databas

Examples

data(MigrationFlows)
str(MigrationFlows)

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