The cols_move() function

Use countrypops to create a gt table. With the remaining columns, position population after country_name with the cols_move() function.

countrypops |>
  dplyr::select(-contains("code")) |>
  dplyr::filter(country_name == "Mongolia") |>
  tail(5) |>
  gt() |>
  cols_move(
    columns = population,
    after = country_name
  )

country_name	population	year
Mongolia	3096030	2017
Mongolia	3163991	2018
Mongolia	3232430	2019
Mongolia	3294335	2020
Mongolia	3347782	2021