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Number of births registered in France from 1968 to 2024

Source: R/utils.R
Births.Rd

Daily number of births recorded in France (metropolitan + DOM), covering the period from January 1, 1968 to December 31, 2024.

Usage

Births

Format

A data frame with 20,820 rows and 2 variables:

  • date: Date of the value (from 1968-01-01 to 2024-12-31)

  • births: Number of daily births (1254–2830)

Source

INSEE, Statistiques de l'état civil – https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8582123?sommaire=8582147

Details

The dataset corresponds to the INSEE series T79jnais. The raw data can be downloaded as a CSV file here: https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/8582123/T79jnais.csv

Examples

data(Births)
plot(Births$date, Births$births,
     type = "l",
     main = "Daily births in France",
     ylab = "Number of births",
     xlab = "date")