A data set containing counts of the number of countries in which certain languages are recognized as (co-)official.
Source:R/n_countries_by_language.R
n_countries_by_language.RdA long-form data set scraped from wikipedia containing an approximate number of countries in which 36 of the world's languages are recognized as being (co-)official. The data set also contains counts by continent and the country names. The table was scraped from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_the_number_of_countries_in_which_they_are_recognized_as_an_official_language
Format
A data frame with 36 rows and 8 columns:
- language
Language name in English
- world
Count of contries in which language is (co-)official in the world
- africa
Count of contries in which language is (co-)official in Africa
- americas
Count of contries in which language is (co-)official in the Americas
- asia
Count of contries in which language is (co-)official in Asia
- europe
Count of contries in which language is (co-)official in Europe
- oceania
Count of contries in which language is (co-)official in Oceania
- countries
Vector of country names (separated by comma)