Visualise age pyramids

In contactdata: Social Contact Matrices for 177 Countries

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>",
  fig.height = 10,
  fig.width = 10
)

library(contactdata)

In this vignette, we are going to try to visualise the age pyramid for 9 Western Europe countries. The list of these countries is:

countries <- c("Portugal", "Spain", "Italy", "France", "Ireland", "Belgium", "Luxembourg", "Germany", "Switzerland")

We can get the contact data for all these countries in a single function call with:

age_data <- age_df_countries(countries)

For the visualisation itself, we use the graphical package ggplot2, which offers a large flexibility in terms of customisation:

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(age_data, aes(x = population, y = age)) +
  geom_bar(stat = "identity") +
  facet_wrap(~country, scales = "free")

contactdata documentation built on April 1, 2023, 12:06 a.m.