wpp2015 (version 1.1-2)

mx: Age-specific Mortality Data

Description

Age-specific data on mortality for male (mxM) and female (mxF).

Usage

data(mxM)
data(mxF)

Format

Data frames with one row per country and age group. For each country there are 22 or more age groups (i.e., up to age 100+ or 110+). 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 (given by the starting age of the interval). For each country there are 22 values: “0”, “1”, “5”, “10”, “15”, “20”, “25”, “30”, “35”, “40”, “45”, “50”, “55”, “60”, “65”, “70”, “75”, “80”, “85”, “90”, “95”, and “100+” in that order.

1950-1955, 1955-1960, …

Mortality rate 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). Not available data are represented by an empty string.

References

World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision. (http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp) Special Tabulations.

Examples

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