GDP data

[akarlinsky]

Seems to be missing for Taiwan (https://github.com/TheEconomist/covid-19-the-economist-global-excess-deaths-model/blob/main/source-data/world_bank_nominal_gdp.csv), perhaps other countries as well. How does the model treat it?

[sondreus]

Yes: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.PP.KD?locations=TW

Treated like any other missing data. I can check which other countries it is missing for.

[sondreus]

Missing for these countries:

Anguilla    AIA NA
3893    Andorra AND NA
11435   Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba)    BES NA
28465   Cook Islands    COK NA
32196   Cuba    CUB NA
45013   Falkland Islands    FLK NA
46148   Faroe Islands   FRO NA
50000   NA  GGY NA
51340   Gibraltar   GIB NA
56083   Greenland   GRL NA
62897   Isle of Man IMN NA
72630   NA  JEY NA
83337   Liechtenstein   LIE NA
88932   Monaco  MCO NA
98258   Montserrat  MSR NA
102193  New Caledonia   NCL NA
104509  Niue    NIU NA
110716  Pitcairn    PCN NA
115302  North Korea PRK NA
117540  French Polynesia    PYF NA
123981  St. Helena Ascension and Tristan da Cunha   SHN NA
134812  Syria   SYR NA
139070  Tokelau TKL NA
144787  Taiwan  TWN NA
149658  Vatican VAT NA
151806  Virgin Islands (British)    VGB NA
153311  Wallis and Futuna   WLF NA

All make sense to me to be NA on brief inspection. Is there another source with more complete data perhaps? (For why Taiwan is missing: https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/114933-where-are-your-data-on-taiwan)

[akarlinsky]

IMF has data for Taiwan and perhaps others here: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2021/April/download-entire-database (relevant indicator is NGDPRPPPPC).

For Cuba I used data from CIA world factbook: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita

[sondreus]

Now added