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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 2012. Dataset tfr
contains estimates of the historical TFR starting with 1950; tfr_supplemental
contains a subset of countries for which data prior 1950 are available. Datasets tfrprojMed
contain the median projections. Datasets tfrproj80l
, tfrproj80u
, tfrproj95l
, and tfrproj95u
are the lower (l) and upper (u) bounds of the 80 and 95% probability intervals, respectively.
Datasets tfrprojHigh
and tfrprojLow
contain high and low variants, respectively, defined as +-1/2 child.
Usage
data(tfr)
data(tfr_supplemental)
data(tfrprojMed)
data(tfrproj80l)
data(tfrproj80u)
data(tfrproj95l)
data(tfrproj95u)
data(tfrprojHigh)
data(tfrprojLow)
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.
last.observed
containing the year of the last observation for each country. Thetfrproj*
datasets start at2010-2015
. Thetfr_supplemental
datasets start at1740-1745
. Missing data haveNA
values.
Source
These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2013).
References
World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision. (http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp) Special Tabulations.
Examples
data(tfr)
head(tfr)
data(tfrprojMed)
str(tfrprojMed)