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A dataset that presents yearly, total populations of countries. Total population is based on counts of all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship. Country identifiers include the English-language country names, and the 2- and 3-letter ISO 3166-1 country codes. Each row contains a population value for a given year (from 1960 to 2017). Any NA values for populations indicate the non-existence of the country during that year.

Variables:

A tibble with 12470 rows and 5 variables:

country_name

Name of the country

country_code_2

The 2-letter ISO 3166-1 country code

country_code_3

The 3-letter ISO 3166-1 country code

year

The year for the population estimate

population

The population estimate, midway through the year

Function ID

11-1

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Source

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL

See Also

Other Datasets: exibble, gtcars, pizzaplace, sp500, sza

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