pandemics {mev}

Deaths from pandemics

Description

The data base contains estimated records of the number of deaths from pandemics.

Usage

pandemics

Format

A data frame with 72 rows and 8 variables:

event

name of the event

startyear

start year of the event

endyear

end year of the event

lower

lower bound on estimated deaths (in thousands)

average

average estimated deaths (in thousands)

upper

upper bound on estimated deaths (in thousands)

saverage

scaled average of estimated deaths (in thousands)

population

estimated population at risk (in thousands)

Source

Cirillo, P. and N.N. Taleb (2020). Tail risk of contagious diseases. Nat. Phys. 16, 606–613 (2020). <doi:10.1038/s41567-020-0921-x>