population_projections_state_age: Population projections - state level, by age group...

In censusindia: Census of India Data, 1901-2011, with Boundaries and Projections

Population projections – state level, by age group (2011-2036)

Description

Age-stratified population reshaped directly from the MOHFW report's own Table 18, wide-by-year to tidy long. Summing to state-year reproduces population_projections_state to within report rounding (Uttar Pradesh 2016: 216,089 vs 216,087 thousand).

Usage

population_projections_state_age

Format

A tibble with 2,448 rows and 5 columns:

year

Projection year (2011-2036, at 5-year intervals: 2011, 2016, 2021, 2026, 2031, 2036)

state_name_harmonized

Harmonized state name for joining where the report breaks the state out individually; "India" and "North East States Excluding Assam" pass through verbatim as aggregate rows

age_group

Five-year bands "0-4" through "80+"

males

Projected male population, in thousands

females

Projected female population, in thousands

population

Projected total population (the printed Person figure), in thousands

Details

Values match the printed Table 18. population is the printed Person figure, rounded separately from males and females, so it can differ from their sum by 1. India and Odisha follow the July 2020 edition, as in population_projections_state, and there population is males + females.

Coverage is narrower than population_projections_state: the report only breaks out 23 major states individually plus an "India" total, lumping the smaller North East states (Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya) into one "North East States Excluding Assam" row. Chandigarh, small UTs and Ladakh are not in this table at all.

Source

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Population Projections for India and States 2011-2036, Table 18. https://nhm.gov.in/New_Updates_2018/Report_Population_Projection_2019.pdf

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