populi: Utilities and Tools in R to Extract, Process, and Structure Population Datasets from the World Population Prospects of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs

The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat prepares regular revisions of the World Population Prospects - the official United Nations population estimates and projections. This package provides utilities and tools to extract, process, and structure these population datasets for use in R.

Installation

You can install the development version of populi from GitHub with:

if(!require(remotes)) install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("rapidsurveys/populi")