United Nations Time Series of Life Expectancy

Description

Datasets containing the United Nations time series of the life expectancy (e0) for all countries of the world as available in 2010. Datasets e0F and e0F_supplemental contain estimates for female historical e0; e0M and e0M_supplemental contain estimates for male historical e0. The *_supplemental datasets contain a subset of countries for which data prior 1950 are available. Datasets e0Mproj and e0Fproj contain projections of male and female e0, respectively.

Usage

data(e0F)
data(e0M)

data(e0F_supplemental)
data(e0M_supplemental)

data(e0Fproj)
data(e0Mproj)

Format

The datasets contain one record per country or region. They contain 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, ...

Life expectancy in various five-year time intervals. The e0*proj datasets start at 2010-2015. The e0*_supplemental datasets start at 1750-1755. 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).

References

World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. (http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp) Special Tabulations.

Examples

data(e0M)
head(e0M)

data(e0Fproj)
str(e0Fproj)