WorldPop Asia dataset details
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DATASET: Alpha version 2010, 2015 and 2020 estimates of numbers of people per pixel ('ppp') with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/).
REGION: Asia
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84
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 - VNM_ppp_v2b_2010_UNadj.tif = Vietnam (VNM) population per pixel (ppp) map for 2010 (popmap10) adjusted to match UN national estimates (UNadj), version 2b (v2b)
DATE OF PRODUCTION: October 2014

NOTE: Please contact us if you are interested to (i) Alpha version 2010, 2015 and 2020 estimates of people per hectare with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/), (ii) to Alpha version 2010, 2015 and 2020 estimates of numbers of people per pixel ('ppp') and people per hectare remaining unadjusted -  The "metadata html file" is in preparation.