Population data with cumulative values

[lisphilar]

Population data is required to estimate the impact of the number of cases at the selected location, and to analyze the number of cases with SIR-derived math models. This is related to #178.

So, it will be great to provide population data of each country/city or document how to get population data.

[jim-sheldon]

We can certainly include retrieving population data as part of automated script(s). There are external APIs and databases we can pull from.

[jim-sheldon]

OWID also provides population data as a supplement to ours: https://ourworldindata.org/monkeypox

[lisphilar]

Yes. Population values used by OWID is saved here and the primary source (CC BY 3.0 IGO) is as follows.
https://population.un.org/wpp/Download/Standard/CSV/

Or, we can get total values from "The Word Bank Data".
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL

[lisphilar]

OWID and "The Word Bank Data" use values in 2021.
We can get estimted total value of each country in 2022 using WPP2022_TotalPopulationBySex.csv
https://population.un.org/wpp/Download/Standard/CSV/

Note it will be difficult to get population values at city level.

[jim-sheldon]

The United Nations provides city-level population data, though it is not immediately clear whether they use ISO-3166.

[oliszymanski]

How about worldometers?
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

It even provides more data

[lisphilar]

@jim-sheldon and @oliszymanski
Thank you for your comments!

Worldometers says the primary source regarding country-level data is World Popularation Prospects 2022 by UN.

City-level data is also available and can be scraped. I could not find useful APIs and URLs of primary sources.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/poland-population/

At this time, city-level confirmed cases data is not included in "Timeseries" and "Timeseries by country" of this repository.
As the first step of this issue, is it possible to add only country-level population values to "Timeseries by country" file?

[jim-sheldon]

I support this. Created #217 to capture the work.