mx {wpp2019}

Age-specific Mortality Data

Description

Age-specific data on mortality rates for male (mxM) and female (mxF).

Usage

data(mxM)
data(mxF)

Format

Data frames with one row per country and age group. They contain the following variables:

country_code

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

name

Country name.

age

A character string representing an age interval (given by the starting age of the interval).

1950-1955, 1955-1960, ...

mx for the given five-year time period (i.e., from 1 July in year t to 1 July in year t+5 such as the period 1950-1955 refers to the period 1950.5-1955.5 and the mid of the period is 1953.0).

Source

These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2019 Revision. http://population.un.org/wpp

Examples

data(mxF)
head(mxF)