Populations missing for certain countries

[greydwarf]

There are some populations missing for several countries:
Bahamas, The
Cabo Verde
Congo (Brazzaville)
Congo (Kinshasa)
Cote d'Ivoire
Czechia
Eswatini
Fiji
Gambia, The
Holy See
Korea, South
Kosovo
Montenegro
Russia
Serbia
Sri Lanka
Taiwan*
US

This is likely caused by the country names from the COVID-19 data not matching the names in the population data source.

[mwargan]

@greydwarf thanks for reporting!

Yes this is exactly the issue, there needs to be a way to standardise/lookup country names from a range of input sources. I'm looking into it - any ideas on your end?

[mwargan]

Forked the original population source and updated country names to match - fixed:

• Bahamas, The (didn't seem to be missing population data when I checked, COVID data may have been updated)
• Fiji
• Gambia, The (didn't seem to be missing population data when I checked, COVID data may have been updated)
• Holy See
• Korea, South
• Russia
• Sri Lanka

[mwargan]

Closing for now, feel free to open for new countries on the population source repo.