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GHS population grid

Jul 24, 2023
Dataset extended description

GHS population grid, derived from GPW4, for 1975, 1990, 2000 and 2015. Values are expressed as decimals (Float). The data is published at medium and low resolution (250m and 1km respectively) in World Mollweide (EPSG:54009). The compressed ZIP file contain TIF files and short documentation.

Dataset keywords
Dataset last access
Dataset JRC path
demography/ghls/data
Dataset type
Dataset category
Dataset availability
FREE
Dataset temporal frequency
multi-year
Dataset spatial extent
Dataset region of interest
Dataset JRC contact
cesar.carmona-moreno@ec.europa.eu
Dataset credits

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC); Columbia University, Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN (2015): GHS population grid, derived from GPW4, multitemporal (1975, 1990, 2000, 2015). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: https://data.europa.eu/89h/jrc-ghsl-ghs_pop_gpw4_globe_r2015a

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