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)

Format

The datasets contain one record per country or region. It contains the following variables:

country

Name of country or region (following ISO 3166 official short names in English - see http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/english_country_names_and_code_elements.htm and United Nations Multilingual Terminology Database - see http://unterm.un.org).

country_code

Numerical Location Code (3-digit codes following ISO 3166-1 numeric standard) - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_numeric.

1950-1955, 1955-1960, ...

TFR in various five-year time intervals. last.observed containing the year of the last observation for each country. 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 (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)

Results