World Population by Country Dataset

Source: R/data.R

World population by country between 1960 to 2020

world_population

Format

A data frame with 4 variables.

country_name

Country Name

country_code

Country abbreviations code

year

The year of the observation

population

Population

Source

The World Bank Data website.

Details

The dataset provides worldwide popluation values by country between 1960 and 2020

Examples


library(dplyr)
data(world_population)

head(world_population)

#> # A tibble: 6 x 4
#>   country_name country_code  year population
#>   <chr>        <chr>        <dbl>      <dbl>
#> 1 Aruba        ABW           1960      54208
#> 2 Aruba        ABW           1961      55434
#> 3 Aruba        ABW           1962      56234
#> 4 Aruba        ABW           1963      56699
#> 5 Aruba        ABW           1964      57029
#> 6 Aruba        ABW           1965      57357

us_pop <- world_population %>%
  filter(country_code == "USA")
plot(us_pop$year, us_pop$population,
     type = "l", main = "US Population",
     xlab = "Source: World Bank",
     ylab = "Population",
     col = "blue")