readme.txt

Name: C. Tapen
Version: 1
Date: 2018-07-23

Overview: 
-The future of population will shape how we create businesses, develop social services, grow our infrastructure, build institutions, provide health care, and the like.
-Understanding the future of population will help equip us to be prepared for opportunities and challenges ahead!

Findings:
1) Africa's population will take off.  Asia's will start declining ~2055.
2) While life expectancy remains lower in Africa, further improvements will increase population.
3) Fertility rates will significantly shape future population (Africa's higher rates).
4) Illustration of future: There are more babies born in a year in Nigeria than in all of Europe.
5) Nearly all of the world's youth reside in developing nations.  The world's population will age considerably.

Contents:
This dashboard shows different facets of population projections, often broken down by continent or subregion.  Topics include: 
-total population
-life expectancy
-fertility rate
-babies per year
-age

Data sources:
-UN: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/database/index.shtml
  -files used: total population sex, population age sex, number of births, total fertility babies per woman
-Gapminder: package in R
-Reference file for ISO codes: https://github.com/lukes/ISO-3166-Countries-with-Regional-Codes/blob/master/all/all.csv 

Link to Shiny app:
https://ctapen.shinyapps.io/Rshiny_population/