countries.csv

The countries.csv data include information from the year 2019 on \(N=196\) countries.

The attributes included in the data are:

country: Country name
`region``: World region for the country (East Asia & Pacific, Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & Caribbean, Middle East & North Africa, North America, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa)
population: Population of the country
area: Area of the country (in km sq.)
gdp: The per person gross domestic product (GDP) adjusted for differences in purchasing power (in U.S. dollars)
life_expect: Life expectancy for all sexes (in years). This is the number of years a newborn infant would be expected to live if the current mortality rates at different ages were to stay the same.
birth_rate: Number of live births expressed per 1,000 people in the population
fertility: Number of live births per 1,000 females of childbearing age (between the ages of 15 and 44 years)
death_rate: Number of deaths divided by the person-years lived by the population over that period expressed per 1,000 people in the population
infant_mortality: Infant mortality rate for all sexes per 1,000 live births

# Import data
library(tidyverse)
countries <- read_csv(file = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zief0002/epsy-5261/main/data/countries.csv")