e0 {wpp2008}

United Nations Time Series of Life Expectancy

Description

Datasets containing the United Nations time series of the life expectancy (e0) for all countries of the world as available in 2008. Datasets e0F contains estimates for female historical e0; e0M contains estimates for male historical e0.

Usage

data(e0F)
data(e0M)

Format

The datasets contain one record per country or region. They contain the following variables:

country

Name of country or region (following ISO 3166 official short names in English - see http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/english_country_names_and_code_elements.htm and United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database - see http://unterm.un.org).

country_code

Numerical Location Code (3-digit codes following ISO 3166-1 numeric standard) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric.

1950-1955, 1955-1960, ...

Life expectancy in various five-year time intervals.

Source

These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision. Special Tabulations.

Examples

data(e0M)
head(e0M)