UN: National Statistics from the United Nations, Mostly From...
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National health, welfare, and education statistics for 213 places, mostly UN members, but also other areas like Hong Kong that are not independent countries.

data(UN)

A data frame with 213 rows on the following 7 variables.

region: Region of the world: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, Latin Amer, North America, NorthAtlantic, Oceania.
group: A factor with levels oecd for countries that are members of the OECD, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, as of May 2012, africa for countries on the African continent, and other for all other countries. No OECD countries are located in Africa.
fertility: Total fertility rate, number of children per woman.
ppgdp: Per capita gross domestic product in US dollars.
lifeExpF: Female life expectancy, years.
pctUrban: Percent urban.
infantMortality: Infant deaths by age 1 year per 1000 live births

Similar data, from the period 2000-2003, appear in the alr3 package under the name UN3. This data set was formerly named UNlla and replaces the older dataset named UN.

All data were collected from UN tables accessed at http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/socind/ on April 23, 2012. OECD membership is from https://www.oecd.org/, accessed May 25, 2012.

Weisberg, S. (2014). Applied Linear Regression, 4th edition. Hoboken NJ: Wiley.

1	summary(UN)

        region      group       fertility         ppgdp         
 Africa    :53   oecd  : 31   Min.   :1.134   Min.   :   114.8  
 Asia      :50   other :115   1st Qu.:1.754   1st Qu.:  1283.0  
 Europe    :39   africa: 53   Median :2.262   Median :  4684.5  
 Latin Amer:20   NA's  : 14   Mean   :2.761   Mean   : 13012.0  
 Caribbean :17                3rd Qu.:3.545   3rd Qu.: 15520.5  
 (Other)   :20                Max.   :6.925   Max.   :105095.4  
 NA's      :14                NA's   :14      NA's   :14        
    lifeExpF        pctUrban      infantMortality  
 Min.   :48.11   Min.   : 11.00   Min.   :  1.916  
 1st Qu.:65.66   1st Qu.: 39.00   1st Qu.:  7.019  
 Median :75.89   Median : 59.00   Median : 19.007  
 Mean   :72.29   Mean   : 57.93   Mean   : 29.440  
 3rd Qu.:79.58   3rd Qu.: 75.00   3rd Qu.: 44.477  
 Max.   :87.12   Max.   :100.00   Max.   :124.535  
 NA's   :14      NA's   :14       NA's   :6