Practical Programming, 2nd Edition

Creating and Populating

As a running example, we will use the predictions for regional populations in the year 2300, which is taken from http://www.worldmapper.org. The first table that we’ll work with (Table 28, ​Estimated World Population in 2300​) has one column that contains the names of regions and another that contains the populations of regions, so each row of the table represents a region and its population.

Table 28. Estimated World Population in 2300

Region	Population (in thousands)
Central Africa	330,993
Southeastern Africa	743,112
Northern Africa	1,037,463
Southern Asia	2,051,941
Asia Pacific	785,468
Middle East	687,630
Eastern Asia	1,362,955
South America	593,121
Eastern Europe ...