Dataset details: WorldPop Global Country Boundaries (v1)
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DATASET: Version 1 WorldPop global country boundaries dataset
REGION: World
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.00833333 decimal degrees (approx. 1km at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS89
UNITS: pixel values = ISO 3166-1 numeric country code ID
MAPPING APPROACH: Rasterized and harmonised country boundary dataset with a spatial resolution of 30 arc seconds.
FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)
FILENAMES: Example – ‘WP_Grid_CCID_1km_v1.tif’ WorldPop global spatial grid providing country code ID (CCID) at 1km resolution, dataset version 1.
DATE OF PRODUCTION: Oct 2016

CITATION: WorldPop. 2017. WorldPop Global Country Boundaries. Version 1. University of Southampton. DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00530