pop:
Estimates of Population Counts
Description
Datasets with age-specific male and female historical population estimates.
Usage
data(popM)
data(popF)
Format
Data frames with one row per country and age group. For each country there are 21 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. For each country there are 21 values: “0-4”, “5-9”, “10-14”, “15-19”, “20-24”, “25-29”, “30-34”, “35-39”, “40-44”, “45-49”, “50-54”, “55-59”, “60-64”, “65-69”, “70-74”, “75-79”, “80-84”, “85-89”, “90-94”, “95-99”, and “100+” in that order.
1950, 1955, ...- Population estimate for the given time.
Source
These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009).References
World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision. Special Tabulations.