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# demography

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The R package `demography` provides functions for demographic analysis including: lifetable calculations; Lee-Carter modelling; functional data analysis of mortality rates, fertility rates, net migration numbers;  and stochastic population forecasting.

## Installation
You can install the **stable** version on
[R CRAN](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=demography).

```r
install.packages('demography', dependencies = TRUE)
```

You can also install the **development** version from
[Github](https://github.com/robjhyndman/demography)

```r
# install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github("robjhyndman/demography")
```


## License

This package is free and open source software, licensed under GPL (>= 3).