Prospective Age Dataset

Computed prospective ages for 1950-2100 for all countries and regions based on 2017 Revision of the UN World Population Prospects.Content:1. codebook.pdf contains a brief overview of the dataset, its background and a description of the cases and variables.2. methods.pdf is a (draft but complete) write up of the calculations used to create the dataset.3. 2017_prospective-ages.csv 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.This figshare fileset is published directly from the github repository ProspectiveAgeData. 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.