A dataset containing age- and sex-specific population percentages for countries, based on World Bank data. Useful for creating population pyramids and analyzing demographic structures.
Format
A data frame with one row per country-year-age-sex group:
- Country Name
Full country name (e.g., "Aruba")
- Indicator Name
The full indicator name (e.g., "Population ages 65-69, female (% of female population)")
- Year
Observation year
- value
Percentage of population in the specified age-sex group
- age
Age group (e.g., "65-69", "70-74")
- unit
Unit of measurement ("Percent" or "Frequency")
- sex
Sex of the population group ("Female", "Male", or "Total")
Source
World Bank Open Data via worldbank.org