jschoeley / lifetablesglobal

Global deaths, population, lifetables and excess mortality based on WPP data

Global life expectancy deficits 20/21 based on WPP data

Jonas Schöley

Calculate global life expectancy deficits 2020/21 based on World Population Prospects 2022 data on deaths and population. These are estimates based on incomplete and uncertain data and may only act as a rough sanity check for other modeling tasks.

Data desciption

Input data

• dat/11-death_wpp.rds

  • Death counts by region, year, sex and age via UN World Population Prospects 2022
  • https://population.un.org/wpp/Download/Files/1_Indicators%20(Standard)/CSV_FILES/WPP2022_DeathsBySingleAgeSex_Medium_1950-2021.zip

• dat/12-exposure_wpp.rds

  • Person-years population exposure by region, year, sex and age via UN World Population Prospects 2022
  • https://population.un.org/wpp/Download/Files/1_Indicators%20(Standard)/CSV_FILES/WPP2022_PopulationExposureBySingleAgeSex_Medium_1950-2021.zip

• dat/coverage.rds

  • Covid cases and deaths by region, sex, and age via COVerAGE-DB (internal file)
  • https://www.coverage-db.org/

Output data

• out/41-lifetablesglobal.rds

  • id: Row ID
  • region: Two letter ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code
  • sex: Male/Female
  • year: Gregorian year
  • age_start: Start of age group in years
  • age_width: Width of age group in years
  • death_actual_wpp: Actual number of deaths from WPP (may be observed or estimated)
  • exposure_actual_wpp: Actual population exposure from WPP (mid year estimates)
  • c19cases_coverage: Covid-19 cases via COVerAGE-DB
  • c19deaths_coverage: Covid-19 deaths via COVerAGE-DB
  • mx_actual_wpp: Life table death rate estimates calculated from WPP data
  • mx_expected_wpp_mean: Expected life table death rate estimates calculated from WPP data (mean prediction)
  • mx_expected_wpp_q05: Expected life table death rate estimates calculated from WPP data (5% prediction interval)
  • mx_expected_wpp_q95: Expected life table death rate estimates calculated from WPP data (95% prediction interval)
  • ex_actual_wpp: Life expectancy estimates calculated from WPP data
  • ex_expected_wpp_mean: Expected life table death rate estimates calculated from WPP data (mean prediction)
  • ex_expected_wpp_q05: Expected life table death rate estimates calculated from WPP data (5% prediction interval)
  • ex_expected_wpp_q95: Expected life table death rate estimates calculated from WPP data (95% prediction interval)