Prospective Age Dataset

Computed prospective ages for 1950-2100 for all countries and regions based on 2017 Revision of the UN World Population Prospects.<br>Content:<br>1. <b><i>codebook.pdf </i></b>contains a brief overview of the dataset, its background and a description of the cases and variables.<br>2. <i><b>methods.pdf</b> </i>is a (draft but complete) write up of the calculations used to create the dataset.<br>3.<b><i> 2017_prospective-ages.csv</i></b> is the human readable form of the prospective age dataset containing the calculated prospective old-age thresholds for 241 countries and regions, for the period 1950-2100, for men, women and both together, as well as the proportions of the population (male, female and total) over these thresholds.<br>This figshare fileset is published directly from the github repository ProspectiveAgeData. <br>For an application of this data see the factsheet on ageing in the Middle East and Northern Africa which will be published in Population Horizons journal.