R: United Nations Time Series of Total Fertility Rate
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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 2010. 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, tfrprojHigh and tfrprojLow contain median, high and low projections, respectively.
TFR in various five-year time intervals. The tfrproj* datasets start at 2010-2015. The tfr_supplemental datasets start at 1740-1745. Missing data have NA values.
Source
These datasets are based on estimates and projections of United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2011).