wpp2012 (version 2.2-0)

tfr: United Nations Time Series of Total Fertility Rate

Description

Datasets containing the United Nations time series of the total fertility rate (TFR) for all countries of the world as available in 2012. Dataset tfr contains estimates of the historical TFR starting with 1950; tfr_supplemental contains a subset of countries for which data prior 1950 are available. Datasets tfrprojMed contain the median projections. Datasets tfrproj80l, tfrproj80u, tfrproj95l, and tfrproj95u are the lower (l) and upper (u) bounds of the 80 and 95% probability intervals, respectively. Datasets tfrprojHigh and tfrprojLow contain high and low variants, respectively, defined as +-1/2 child.

Usage

data(tfr)
data(tfr_supplemental)
data(tfrprojMed)
data(tfrproj80l)
data(tfrproj80u)
data(tfrproj95l)
data(tfrproj95u)
data(tfrprojHigh)
data(tfrprojLow)

source

These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2013).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision. (http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp) Special Tabulations.

Examples

data(tfr)
head(tfr)

data(tfrprojMed)
str(tfrprojMed)