
Datasets containing the United Nations time series of the total fertility rate (TFR) for all countries of the world as available in 2008. 


datasets

Data from the United Nation's World Population Prospects 2008

Hana Sevcikova

wpp2008

World Population Prospects 2008

tfr function

The datasets contain one record per country or region. It contains the following variables:
  <dl>
    <dt><code>country</code></dt><dd>Name of country or region (following ISO 3166 official short names in English - see <a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/english_country_names_and_code_elements.htm">http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/english_country_names_and_code_elements.htm</a> and United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database - see <a href="http://unterm.un.org">http://unterm.un.org</a>).</dd> <dt><code>country_code</code></dt><dd>Numerical Location Code (3-digit codes following ISO 3166-1 numeric standard) - see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric</a>.</dd> <dt><code>1950-1955</code>, <code>1955-1960</code>, ...</dt><dd>TFR in various five-year time intervals.</dd> </dl> 

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These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2009).

tfr: United Nations Time Series of Total Fertility Rate

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