age_distribution {Bernadette}

Country-specific age distribution

Description

Function to extract the age distribution of a country for a given year, broken down by 5-year age bands and gender, following the United Nations 2019 Revision of World Population Prospects.

Usage

age_distribution(country, year)

Arguments

country

character; country identifier, following the List of United Nations Member States. See countries_un.

year

numeric; calendar year.

Value

An object of class data.frame that contains the age distribution.

References

United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2019). World Population Prospects 2019, Online Edition. Rev. 1.

Prem, K., van Zandvoort, K., Klepac, P. et al (2017). Projecting contact matrices in 177 geographical regions: an update and comparison with empirical data for the COVID-19 era. medRxiv 2020.07.22.20159772; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.07.22.20159772

Examples

# Age distribution for Greece in 2020:
age_distr <- age_distribution(country = "Greece", year = 2020)