mx:
Age-specific Mortality Data
Description
Age-specific data on mortality for male (mxM
) and female (mxF
).
Format
Data frames with one row per country and age group. For each country there are 22 age groups. It contains the following variables:
country
- Country name.
country_code
- Numerical Location Code (3-digit codes following ISO 3166-1 numeric standard) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric.
age
- A character string representing an age interval (given by the starting age of the interval). For each country there are 22 values: 0, 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70, 75, 80, 85, 90, 95, and 100+ in that order.
1950-1955
, 1955-1960
, ...- Mortality rate for the given time period. Not available data are represented by an empty string.
Source
This dataset is based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011).