Major urban areas worldwide

Description

Dataset in a 'long' form from the United Nations population division with projections up to 2050. Includes only the top 30 largest areas by population at 5 year intervals.

Usage

urban_agglomerations

Format

Selected variables:

• year Year of population estimate

• country_code Code of country

• urban_agglomeration Name of the urban agglomeration

• population_millions Estimated human population

• geometry sfc_POINT

Source

https://esa.un.org/unpd/wup

Examples

if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  library(sf)
  data(urban_agglomerations)
}
# Code used to download the data:
## Not run: 
download.file(destfile = "WUP2014-F11a-30_Largest_Cities.xls",
url = "https://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/CD-ROM/WUP2014_XLS_CD_FILES/WUP2014-F11a-30_Largest_Cities.xls")
library(dplyr)
library(sf)
urban_agglomerations = readxl::read_excel("WUP2014-F11a-30_Largest_Cities.xls", skip = 16) %>%
    st_as_sf(coords = c("Longitude", "Latitude"), crs = 4326)
names(urban_agglomerations) <- gsub(" ", "_", tolower(names(urban_agglomerations)) ) %>% 
        gsub("\\(|\\)", "", .)
devtools::use_data(urban_agglomerations, overwrite = TRUE)
file.remove("WUP2014-F11a-30_Largest_Cities.xls")

## End(Not run)