Get Philippines age-specific number of births estimates or projections by 5-year periods given a year or range of years from the World Population Prospects 2019

Get Philippines age-specific number of births estimates or projections by 5-year periods given a year or range of years from the World Population Prospects 2019

ph_get_wpp2019_births(
  file,
  location = "Philippines",
  period = lubridate::year(Sys.Date())
)

Arguments

file	Either a path or a URL to the World Population Prospects 2019 file containing population estimates and projections in 5-year age groups
location	Location to get population estimates/projections for; Default to the "Philippines"
period	A year (numeric) or range of years (YYYY:YYYY) in 5 year intervals starting from 1950 to get population estimates/projections for; Default is current year corresponding to the five year period that contains the current year

Value

A tibble in tidy format containing age-specific number of births for the entire Philippines from 1950 to 2100

Examples

if (FALSE) {
link <- with(dataSources,
             link[source == "WPP" & parameter == "births"])
ph_get_wpp2019_births(file = link, period = 2019)
}