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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| task_categories: |
| - tabular-classification |
| - time-series-forecasting |
| tags: |
| - epidemiology |
| - demographics |
| - population |
| - world-bank |
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| # World Population Data (World Bank) |
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| This dataset contains annual population estimates provided by the [World Bank](https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL). It is used within the **EPI-Eval** framework to provide denominators for disease incidence and prevalence calculations. |
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| ### Coverage |
| - **Time:** 1960 → 2023 (or latest available) |
| - **Geography levels:** National, Regional, and Global |
| - **Source:** World Bank Open Data (Indicator: SP.POP.TOTL) |
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| ### Columns |
| | Column | Unit | Description | |
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| | **location_id** | String | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (e.g., USA, AFG). | |
| | **year** | YYYY | The year of the population estimate. | |
| | **value** | count | Total population count. | |
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| ### Access & Attribution |
| - **Availability:** Open Access |
| - **License:** [CC-BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
| - **Citation:** *World Bank Open Data, Population, total. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL* |
| - **Tier:** 1 |
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| *Schema version 0.1 · source_id: world-bank-pop* |
