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WorldPop dataset details
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DATASET: Alpha version 2015 and 2020 estimates of numbers of people per pixel (ppp) and people per hectare (pph), with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/) and remaining unadjusted.
REGION: Eurasia
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS 84
UNITS: Estimated persons per grid square
MAPPING APPROACH: Random Forest
FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)
FILENAMES: Example - UKR_ppp_v2b_2020_UNadj.tif = Ukraine (UKR) population per pixel (ppp) modelling version 2b (v2b) map for 2020 (2020) adjusted to match UN national estimates (UNadj).
DATE OF PRODUCTION: March 2014
Also included: (i) Metadata html file, (ii) Population datasets produced using original census year data (2012).
WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton). 2014. Ukraine 100m Population. Alpha version 2015 and 2020 estimates of numbers of people per pixel (ppp) and people per hectare (pph), with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/) and remaining unadjusted. DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00286