Population Model

  • Represents 22 age-sex cohorts to age 100+ in a standard cohort-component system structure
  • Calculates change in cohort-specific fertility of households in response to income, and income distribution
  • Calculates change in mortality rates in response to income, income distribution, and assumptions about technological change affecting mortality
  • Computes average life expectancy at birth, literacy rate, and overall measures of human development (HDI) and physical quality of life
  • Represents migration, which ties to flows of remittances
  • separately represents the evolution of HIV infection rates and deaths from AIDS
  • computes average life expectancy at birth, literacy rate, and overall measures of human development (HDI)