Fertility and Mortality estimates data (World)

Data set containing basic demographic quantities during two time periods: 1950-1955 and 2005-2010.

World

Format

A data frame with 30 rows and 7 variables:

country

character: abbreviated country name

period

characte: period during which data are collectedr

age

character: age group

births

numeric: number of births (in thousands), i.e., the number of children born to women of the age group

deaths

numeric: number of deaths (in thousands)

py.men

numeric: person-years for men (in thousands)

py.women

numeric: person-years for women (in thousands)

Details

See QSS Table 1.4.

References

• Imai, Kosuke. 2017. Quantitative Social Science: An Introduction. Princeton University Press. URL.

• United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2013). World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, DVD Edition.