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United Nations Time Series of Total Fertility Rate
Description
Datasets containing the United Nations time series of the total fertility rate (TFR) for all countries of the world as available in 2008.
Usage
data(tfr)
Format
The datasets contain one record per country or region. It contains 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
, ...TFR 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(tfr)
head(tfr)