WorldPop Asia dataset details
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DATASET: Alpha version 2010, 2015 and 2010 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 an additional version remaining unadjusted (modelled solely on census and covariate data).
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 - LKA_ppp_v2b_2010_UNadj.tif = Sri Lanka (LKA) population per pixel (ppp), mapped using WorldPOP modelling version 2b (v2b) for 2010 (2010) adjusted to match UN national estimates (UNadj).
DATE OF PRODUCTION: July 2015

Also included in download: (i) Population datasets produced using original census year data (2012), (ii) Metadata html file, (iii) Google Earth .kmz file