Country level demographic data from 1950 to the current day. Also includes the proportion of the population that are rural. Data is sourced from the FAO. Data cleaning details can be found in \data-raw\demographics.R.

demographics

Format

A data frame with 14,857 rows and 5 variables.

country

Country name (factor)

country_code

Country code (numeric)

year

Year (numeric)

population

Estimated population size (numeric)

prop_rural

Proportion of population that is estimated to be rural (numeric)