wpp2019 (version 1.1-1)

mx: 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).

References

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

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(mxF)
head(mxF)
# }