Get Philippines population estimates or projections by 5-year age groups given a year or range of years from the World Population Prospects 2019

ph_get_wpp2019_pop(
  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) to get population estimates/projections for; Default to current year.

Value

A tibble in tidy format containing population data by 5-year age groups for the entire Philippines and by region from 2015 (estimates) to 2025 (projections)

Examples

if (FALSE) {
link <- with(dataSources,
             link[source == "WPP" & parameter == "population"])
ph_get_wpp2019_pop(file = link)
}