[New Data Resource] World Population Prospects from UN

[seandavi]

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The 2019 Revision of World Population Prospects is the twenty-sixth round of official United Nations population estimates and projections that have been prepared by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat.

These CSV files are encoded in UTF-8 and all of them have the following columns:

LocID (numeric): numeric code for the location; for countries and areas, it follows the ISO 3166-1 numeric standard
Location (string): name of the region, subregion, country or area
VarID (numeric): numeric code for the variant
Variant (string): projection variant name (Medium is the most used); for more information see Definition of projection variants
Time (string): label identifying the single year (e.g. 1950) or the period of the data (e.g. 1950-1955)
MidPeriod (numeric): numeric value identifying the mid period of the data, with the decimal representing the month (e.g. 1950.5 for July 1950)
Use the LocID, VarID and Time columns to link the data accross the different files, if necessary. Note that Time differs between single year (e.g. 1950) and period (e.g. 1950-1955) data.

Access details

• URL: https://population.un.org/wpp/Download/Standard/CSV/
• Format: .csv
• Open access: [X] Yes or [ ] No (include additional information)

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