wpp2012-package: World Population Prospects 2012

Description

Data from the United Nations World Population Prospects 2012.

Arguments

Source

These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2013). The probabilistic projections were produced with the method of Raftery et al. (2012).

Details

Package:

wpp2012

Version:

2.2-1

Date:

2014-8-21

Depends:

R (>= 2.14.2)

License:

GPL (>= 2)

URL:

http://esa.un.org/wpp, http://esa.un.org/unpd/ppp

The package contains the following datasets:

tfr, tfr_supplemental, tfrprojMed, tfrproj80u, tfrproj80l, tfrproj95u, tfrproj95l, tfrprojHigh, tfrprojLow: estimates and projections of total fertility rate.
e0F, e0M, e0X_supplemental, e0Xproj, e0Xproj80u, e0Xproj80l, e0Xproj95u, e0Xproj95l: sex-specific estimates and projections of life expectancy with X=“F” and “M”.
popF, popM, popXprojMed, popXprojHigh, popXprojLow: age- and sex-specific population estimates and projections with X=“F” and “M”.
popproj80l, popproj80u, popproj95l, popproj95u, popprojLow, popprojHigh: Lower and upper bounds of 80 and 95% probability intervals of total population projections, as well as +-1/2 child variants.
mxF, mxM: age- and sex-specific mortality rates
migrationF, migrationM: age- and sex-specific net migration (see note below)
sexRatio: sex ratio at birth as a ratio of female to male
percentASFR: distribution of age-specific fertility rates
UNlocations: location dataset

References

World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision. (http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp) Special Tabulations. Probabilistic projections: http://esa.un.org/unpd/ppp A. E. Raftery, N. Li, H. Sevcikova , P. Gerland, G. K. Heilig (2012). Bayesian probabilistic population projections for all countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109:13915-13921.