Tables

In this tab, users can display tables of demographic data for multiple regions and countries/areas for a single year or multiple years. Several pre-built reports are available, or users can generate custom reports.

1. The report "Demographic Overview" is selected.
2. Depending on the Report selection above, some measures are pre-selected and included as columns in the table (Total Population, Growth Rate, Population Density, etc. in this screenshot).
3. "Filter by Country/Area" displays the selected regions and countries/areas (Arab League and Germany in this screenshot) in the "Name" column of the data table.
4. "Filter by Year" displays only the selected year(s) (2023 in this screenshot) in the table.

Selection/Filtering Menu

Show/Hide Menu The Show/Hide menu button allows users to toggle the visibility of the menu. When the menu is hidden, the main display area increases to full width. Report Selection Click "Report" button to open a popup window prompting users to "Select a Report". Note: Demographic Overview, Components of Population Growth, Fertility, Mortality, and Migration are pre-built reports. These reports have a fixed number of pre-selected measures/table columns. "Custom Report" is not a pre-built report. It allows users to select any number of measures to be displayed in the table. Select a report Click "OK" button to generate the data table for selected report. Custom Report Columns Click "Custom Report Columns" button to open a popup window prompting users to "Select a Measure". Select measure(s) Note Some measure(s) were pre-selected for those pre-built reports. If users unselect any of the pre-selected measure(s) (or select additional measures), the report button will change to "Custom Report". Click "OK" button to generate the data table for selected measure(s). Filter by Country/Area Click "Filter by Country/Area" button to open a pop-up window prompting users to "Select Countries/Areas". Select regions and/or countries/areas Users can select all countries/areas (or clear all the selections), or use filter at the top to filter the list. Click "OK" button to generate the data table for the selected regions and countries/areas. Show Countries/Areas in Regions This checkbox will toggle whether or not the table will display the countries/areas that combine to make a region, or whether to hide them and display regions the same way countries/areas are displayed. Checked: Regions are expandable to show the countries/areas that make up the region. Unchecked: Regions are not expandable, and are displayed as single entities. Filter by Year The "Select by Year" are as follows: "Use specified year(s)": is checked by default. If this checkbox is checked, it displays the table row(s) of the selected year(s) from "Years (comma separated)" input field. "Use specified range": If this checkbox is checked, it allows users to select a range of years. Users can manually enter a starting year in the input field, or adjust the slider to select a starting year. Users can manually enter an ending year in the input field, or adjust the slider to select an ending year. "Increment by__ year" input field allows users to display table row(s) for every "Increment by__ year" year(s). Click "OK" button to display the above selections in the table. Reset The "Reset" button resets the app to its initial default settings.

Table

• Click on download button to open a pop-up window prompting users to “Choose a Download Format” of either CSV or Excel.
  
• Click on Help icon to open a “Table Help” window providing more information about the Table.
  
• Click on a column header to sort a column in ascending or descending order.
  
• Filter

  Users can directly enter filter condition into filter input box as follows: > (Greater than) for example: > 100000. < (Less than) for example: < 100000. - (In range) for example: 100000-200000. Or click on the filter icon: Click on filter icon to open the filter dropdown. Click on the arrow-down button to choose “In range”, “Greater than”, “Less than” etc.

  
  
• Paging option allows users to move to next/previous page.
  

Map

Selection Menu

Show/Hide Menu The Show/Hide menu button allows a user to toggle the visibility of the menu. When the menu is hidden, the main map display area increases to full width. Measure Click on "Measure" button to open a pop-up window prompting the user to select a measure. When the "OK" button is clicked, the tool creates the map based on the newly selected data measure. Additionally, the class breaks and legend are updated. Select a measure Note that users can also use filter options at the top of this pop-up window to filter the measure list. Click "OK" button to display the map (of the selected measure) in the map display area. Select by Country/Area Click the "Country/Area" button to open a pop-up window to "Select Countries/Areas." Select a region, country/area, or multiple Countries/Areas. Users can filter by Region or country/area name. Click "OK" button to display the map for the selected countries/areas. When the “OK” button is clicked, the map pans and zooms to the extent of the selected geographies, whose borders are highlighted in a bold cyan color. Year Click the "Year" button to open a pop-up window prompting user to select a year. Users can click on “Year” to sort the list. Additionally, users can filter by entering year in the input field. Click “OK” button to display map for selected year. Reset The "Reset" button resets the map to its initial default settings.

Map Display Area and Functionality

1. Zoom In/Out Icons - cause the current display scale to increase/decrease by a single increment on the center of the current map display extent.
2. Navigate Home Icon - zooms the map display to the default extent of the global view. If the current map display scale and extent is already at the default global view, then there is no perceptible system response.
3. Legend - located at the bottom left corner of the map display area, the legend which displays classes and is updated per data filter selection. To collapse the legend, users can click the “X” button in the top right corner of the legend box. Clicking on the legend button expands the legend again.


When user hovers over a geography in the map, an info window will pop up displaying data for the underlying area, including Country/Area name, data year, and data estimate for the selected measure. If there is no IDB data for the corresponding area, the info window will display ”No data.” Clicking will result in the map zooming in further.
Some countries/areas may appear to have no labels. Labels are usually prevented from displaying if they do not fit inside the underlying area, with the exception being more populous countries/areas at the map’s default view while zoomed out.

Population By Age

In this tab, users can view the population datatable or pyramid for a single country/area or multiple countries/areas, and for a single year or multiple years.

Note that if more countries/areas and/or years are selected, it will take more time to load the pyramid.

Selection Menu

Show/Hide Menu The Show/Hide menu button allows users to toggle the visibility of the menu. When the menu is hidden, the main display area increases to full width. Show Users can select either "Pyramids" or "Tables". Select by Countries/Areas "Select by Country/Area" allows users to select a region or country/area. Click on this button to open a pop-up window prompting users to make a selection. Users can click on "Area Name" to sort the list. Users can also enter a few letters of the country/area name or region in the input field to filter the list. Click "OK" button to display the views of the selected region or country/area. Show Countries/Areas in Regions Checking this box will display all the countries/areas that make up a region, while unchecking will show regions as single entities. Select Year(s) Allow users to select one or more years to be displayed in the table. Click this button to filter on one or multiple years. Reset The "Reset" button resets the app to its initial default settings.

Pyramids

Click on (1) "Pyramids" button to display the pyramid(s) of (2) selected countries/areas and (3) selected years.

Tables

Click on "Tables" button to display the datatable. Table rows are grouped by country/area and year. Click on "Expand All"/"Collapse All" buttons to expand/collapse all rows, or Users can click on a country/area name or year to expand/collapse the rows of that particular country/area or year. Age Groups selections display a table for the selected group in the main display area: Single Year Age Groups. Five Year Age Groups. Broad Age Groups. Youth Age Groups. Special Age Groups. Older Age Groups. Older Five Year Age Groups.

Trends

In this tab, users can view trends over time for one or multiple regions and countries/areas for specific demographic indicators. Users can adjust the years selected to limit the amount of data displayed.

Selection/Filter Menu

Show/Hide Menu The Show/Hide menu button allows users to toggle the visibility of the menu. When the menu is hidden, the main display area increases to full width. Measure Click on the Measure button to open a pop-up window prompting users to select a measure. When the "OK" button is clicked, a chart and a table of the selected measure will be displayed. Note: some measure are not aggregable for regions. Select a measure Note that users can also use filter options—at the top of this pop-up window—to filter the measure list. Click "OK" button to display chart and table (of the selected measure). Filter by Country/Area "Filter by Country/Area" allows for the selection of regions and countries/areas. A pop-up window opens, prompting users to select regions and countries/areas. When the "OK" button is clicked, a chart and a table of the selected regions and countries/areas will be displayed in the main display area. Adjust Year Range This option allows users to select a range of years. Users can manually enter a starting year in the input field, or adjust the slider to select a starting year. Users can manually enter an ending year in the input field, or adjust the slider to select an end year. If the "Auto-fit table columns to table width" checkbox is checked, the table's column will be automatically adjusted to fit within the view. Note that if this checkbox is checked, it will ignore the Increment from the Table Columns selection. Table Columns "Table Columns" selection allows users to set the Increment by number of year(s). The increment will affect the number of columns on the table. The greater the increment, the fewer the columns. Enter the number of year(s) to be incremented. Enter years (separated by comma). It will insert the column(s) for that entered year(s) in the table. Click "OK" to adjust the table. Reset The "Reset" button resets the app to its initial default settings.

Chart

• Download button. Users will be prompted to "Choose a Download Format" of either PDF or JPEG.
  
• The Help icon opens a chart help window providing more information about the chart.
  
• Info window displays the data of a chart point/line. Hover over a point/line to see the info window.
  
• Click a country/area name on chart legend to remove that country/area from the chart (the country/area becomes grayed out). Click the country/area once more to show it again on the chart.
  

Table

• Double clicking a row brings users to the Dashboard tab with the selected region or country/area from this table's row.
  
• Click Download button to open a small popup window, users will be prompted to "Choose a Download Format" of either CSV or Excel.
  
• The Help icon opens a table help window providing more information about the table.
  
• Click on column header to sort a column in ascending or descending order.
  
• Filter

  Users can directly enter a filter condition into the filter input box as follows: > (Greater than): for example: > 100000. < (Less than): for example: < 100000. - (In range): for example: 100000-200000. Or use the filter dialog box by clicking on the filter icon next to the text box. The filter dialog allows for more specific filtering.

  
  
• Paging option allows users to move to next/previous page.
  

Customization

In this tab, users can create custom regions and custom age groups. The user-created regions can be viewed on all tabs by selecting it from the country/area filters. The user-created age groups are viewable only on the Age Tables in the Population by Age tab.

Users are able to share their custom regions and age groups with others in two ways: copy and pasting the URL, and saving the custom regions and/or age groups to a file, which can then be shared with other users.

Creating Custom Regions

• Clicking the "Create New Region" starts the process of creating a custom region
• Once this button has been pressed, there are more steps and options for the user:
  1. First, the user must enter a name for their custom region.
  2. The user may or may not add countries/areas from an already-existing region. This can be helpful if the region closely resemebles another region; this allows the user to take an existing region, and add or remove countries/areas to/from it.
  3. To add or remove countries/areas to/from the custom region, the user checks or unchecks the checkbox in the table. The table is filterable, like all the tables in the application.
  4. Lastly the user must click the "Create" button to finalize the new custom region. Once this is done, the region will be viewable across the appliction.
  

Creating Custom Age Groups

• To create a custom age group, the user must first select "Age Groups" in the side bar.
• Next, the user must click the "Create New Age Groups" button.

• Once this button has been pressed, there are more steps and options for the user:
  1. First, the user must enter a name for their custom age groups.
  2. The user may or may not add age groups from an already-existing age grouping.
  3. To add age groups to the new custom grouping, the user enters them in the text box. Seperating each group with a comma, users can add individual years (i.e. 7, 17) and spans of years (i.e. 18-20, 20-30).
  4. Lastly the user must click the "Create" button to finalize. Once this is done, the age groups will be viewable in the Population by Age tables.
  

Saving and Loading Customizations

Saving/Exporting

1. To save the current customizations to a file, the user must first select the "Export" button in the sidebar.
2. Next, the user must name the export file.
3. The user can then pick which customizations they wish to save using the checkboxes in the table.
4. Lastly, the user must click "Export Selected Items". This will download the save file in the form of a JSON file, which can be shared and loaded by other users.

Loading/Importing

1. To load previously saved customizations, the user must first select the "Import" option in the sidebar.
2. Next, the user can either drag and drop the JSON file from their computer into the import box, or they can click the "Select a File" button to manually select the file in a file explorer.

1. Once the file is selected, a list will appear containing all of the available customizations. The user can check the boxes of which custom regions and/or custom age groups they want to import.
2. Once the user has made their selections, clicking "Import Selected Items" will load them into the IDB Application, allowing them to be viewed.

Viewing Customizations in IDB

To view a custom region in the application, the user must select the region like they would any other region. Custom regions will appear at the top of the "Filter by Country/Area" dialogs:

To view a custom age group, the user must:

1. First, navigate to the Population by Age tab.
2. Next, select Age Tables in the sidebar.
3. Lastly, select the new custom age group. The age groups will now be displayed in the table.