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Allow population to change over time in small countries? #313

Open swaldhoff opened 7 years ago

swaldhoff commented 7 years ago

The official SSP population data (IIASA-WiC) does not have any population projections for several countries. Currently, for these countries population is held constant through 2100 and all SSPs. Generally these are small enough and part of other larger regions that we don't really need to worry about them. The exception is Taiwan. Since it's a single region in GCAM, should we think about a way to allow the population to change over time (compared to other countries, etc.,)? (I think this is an issue to track/think about for future improvement, but not to change right now.)

d3y419 commented 7 years ago

there's an OECD ENV model that has somewhat reasonable taiwan population. i'll suggest NEW_SYSTEM_BEHAVIOR on the pull request.