India's Population Series

The population series was pulled from the DevInfo database. This source has a shorter time series of population by state, but it will be more up to date than alternative sources which is best for model initialization. The_state_of_Telangana had to be estimated in this series because the data for Andhra Pradesh includes both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Unlike other population data sources there is not district level population data available Instead I used the population ratios of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh from my previous population series because I knew that they were accurate.

Typically the official and up to date source for subnational population is the national census. However, India's Census is conducted every ten years and there appears to not be any annual estimates available from this source. This makes the census data quite out of data being that the last census was conducted in 2011, and we will not be able to update this until after the 2021 census. Thus an alternative source is being used to ensure that population data is available to be updated more frequently than every decade.