World Countries Large Data Set: 200 Countries, 22 Variables, 12 Statistics Lessons with Answers + 24 Population Pyramids

A ready-to-teach GCSE / A level statistics large data set of every country with at least 100,000 people.

- 22 variables: population, median age, under-15 and over-65 shares, birth and death rates, fertility (now and 1960), life expectancy for men and women (now, 1990, 1960), net migration, urban %, density, GDP per person, CO2 per person, electricity per person, continent and region

- 12 tasks with worked answers: stratified sampling, mean vs median, quartiles and outliers, box plots by continent, PMCC, regression on log GDP, Spearman's rank, gender gap, change since 1990, demographic transition, population pyramids, open investigation

- 24 population pyramids (PNG) from Niger to Japan

- One Excel workbook: README, Countries, Tasks, Answers, Sources

Data: UN World Population Prospects 2024 (CC BY 3.0 IGO), World Bank WDI (CC BY 4.0), Our World in Data / Global Carbon Project / Ember (CC BY 4.0).

Licence: use with your own classes and modify; please do not resell the files.

Built with our own code from public data; the lesson tasks were drafted with AI help, and every answer was computed from the data.

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