Compute row average in pandas

Question

       Y1961      Y1962      Y1963      Y1964      Y1965  Region
0  82.567307  83.104757  83.183700  83.030338  82.831958  US
1   2.699372   2.610110   2.587919   2.         


        

Answer 1

We can find the the mean of a row using the range function, i.e in your case, from the Y1961 column to the Y1965

df['mean'] = df.iloc[:, 0:4].mean(axis=1)

And if you want to select individual columns

df['mean'] = df.iloc[:, [0,1,2,3,4].mean(axis=1)