| AfricaPopData {micromapST} | R Documentation |
Test data for the Africa border Group
Description
This dataset contains the population and country data for the 52 countries in the African border group.
Usage
data(AfricaPopData)Format
A data frame with 52 observations, 1 for each African country, on the following "x" variables.
- Rank
an integer rank of the country in Africa.
- Name
a character vector containing the Africa Country Name.
- Abbr
a character vector containing the African Country Abbreviation.
- Projection
a numeric vector of the number of the county's population
- AvrRelGw
a numeric vector of the average relative population growth.
- AvrAbsGw
a numeric vector of the average absolute population growth.
- Est2Time
a numeric vector of the estimated time to double the population - years.
- OfficialPop
a numeric vector of the official population.
- MMDDYY
the date the information was last updated.
- PercOf
a numeric vector representing the percentage the country's population is to the total population of Africa.
Details
This dataset was pulled from wikipedica on the population numbers for African countries.
Author(s)
Linda W. Pickle and Jim Pearson of StatNet Consulting, LLC, Gaithersburg, MD