wpp_age: Get age-specific population data according to the World...

In socialmixr: Social Mixing Matrices for Infectious Disease Modelling

Get age-specific population data according to the World Population Prospects 2017 edition

Description

This function is deprecated in favour of passing population data directly to contact_matrix() via the survey_pop argument. Additionally, the underlying wpp2017 data is outdated. For more recent population data, use the wpp2024 package from GitHub.

Usage

wpp_age(countries, years)

Arguments

countries	countries, will return all if not given
years	years, will return all if not given

Details

This uses data from the wpp2017 package but combines male and female, and converts age groups to lower age limits. If the requested year is not present in the historical data, WPP projections are used.

Value

data frame of age-specific population data

Examples

wpp_age("Italy", c(1990, 2000))

# For more recent data, use wpp2024 from GitHub:
# remotes::install_github("PPgp/wpp2024")
# library(wpp2024)
# data(popAge1dt)
# uk_pop <- popAge1dt[name == "United Kingdom" & year == 2020,
#                     .(lower.age.limit = age, population = pop * 1000)]
# contact_matrix(polymod, countries = "United Kingdom", survey_pop = uk_pop)

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