countrypops: Yearly populations of countries from 1960 to 2021

Description

A dataset that presents yearly, total populations of countries. Total population is based on counts of all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. Country identifiers include the English-language country names, and the 2- and 3-letter ISO 3166-1 country codes. Each row contains a population value for a given year (from 1960 to 2021). Any NA values for populations indicate the non-existence of the entity during that year.

Usage

countrypops

Arguments

Format

A tibble with 13,330 rows and 5 variables:

country_name: The name of the country.
country_code_2, country_code_3: The 2- and 3-letter ISO 3166-1 country codes.
year: The year for the population estimate.
population: The population estimate, midway through the year.

Examples

Here is a glimpse at the data available in countrypops.

dplyr::glimpse(countrypops)
#> Rows: 13,330
#> Columns: 5
#> $ country_name   <chr> "Aruba", "Aruba", "Aruba", "Aruba", "Aruba", "Aruba", "~
#> $ country_code_2 <chr> "AW", "AW", "AW", "AW", "AW", "AW", "AW", "AW", "AW", "~
#> $ country_code_3 <chr> "ABW", "ABW", "ABW", "ABW", "ABW", "ABW", "ABW", "ABW",~
#> $ year           <int> 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1~
#> $ population     <int> 54608, 55811, 56682, 57475, 58178, 58782, 59291, 59522,~

Dataset ID and Badge

DATA-1

Dataset Introduced

v0.2.0.5 (March 31, 2020)