populaR provides a convenient interface to the UN’s World Population Prospects API. Several pre-baked datasets are included, as well as a convenient wrapper for more advanced API users
You can install the development version of populaR from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("chitrams/populaR")First you have to get the numeric ID of a location. You can do this
through the get_id function with type = "locations". If you know the
exact wording, set search = FALSE to speed up the query.
library(populaR)
get_id("Australia", type = "locations", .progress = FALSE)
#> # A tibble: 5 × 6
#> id name iso3 iso2 longitude latitude
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 36 Australia AUS AU 134. -25.3
#> 2 927 Australia/New Zealand ANZ ZL NA NA
#> 3 1834 Australia/New Zealand ANZ ZL NA NA
#> 4 1835 Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zea… OCA OZ NA NA
#> 5 5502 Europe, Northern America, Australia, and… SDG SD NA NAThen, you need the numeric ID of the indicator. You can search for this in the same way
get_id("Population by 5-year age groups and sex", type = "Indicators", .progress = FALSE)
#> # A tibble: 1 × 4
#> id name shortName description
#> <int> <chr> <chr> <chr>
#> 1 46 Population by 5-year age groups and sex PopByAge5AndSex Annual populati…Common indicators include:
| Indicator ID | Description |
|---|---|
| 46 | Population by 5-year age groups and sex |
By default, the package does not clean API columns, and so will return quite a lot of information.