popgrowthmillion {GET}

Population growth

Description

Population growth

Usage

data("popgrowthmillion")

Format

A matrix, where each row corresponds to a year and each column to a country. Column names correspond to the countries, and row names to the years.

Details

This dataset includes population growth, i.e. population at the end of the year divided by population at the beginning of the year, in 134 countries in years from 1950 to 2015. The dataset includes only countries over million inhabitants in 1950. The data were extracted from the supplement of Nagy et al. (2017) distributed under the GPL-2 license.

References

Nagy, S., I. Gijbels, and D. Hlubinka (2017). Depth-based recognition of shape outlying functions. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 26 (4), 883-893.