wpp2015 (version 1.1-2)

migration: Dataset on Migration

Description

Estimates and projections of total net migration.

Usage

data(migration)

Format

Data frame with one row per country. It contains 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.

1990-1995, 1995-2000, 2000-2005, …

Net migration (in thousand) for the specific 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 2015 Revision. (http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp) Special Tabulations.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(migration)
str(migration)
# }