Dataset details:  Madagascar 100m Population
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DATASET: Version 2 estimates of numbers of people per pixel ('ppp') for 2006, 2010, 2015 and 2020, with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/), or alternatively remaining unadjusted.
REGION: Africa 
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84
UNITS: Estimated persons per grid square
MAPPING APPROACH: Random Forest modelling (for more details see: Stevens, F. R., Gaughan, A. E., Linard, C., & Tatem, A. J. (2015). Disaggregating Census Data for Population Mapping Using Random Forests with Remotely-Sensed and Ancillary Data. PLOS ONE, 10(2), e0107042. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0107042)
FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)
FILENAMES: Example - 'MDG_ppp_v2c_2015_UNadj.tif' = Madagascar (MDG) population per pixel (ppp) map for 2015  version 2c (v2c), adjusted to match UN national estimates (UNadj).  
DATE OF PRODUCTION: September 2017

CITATION: WorldPop. 2017. Madagascar 100m Population, Version 2. University of Southampton. DOI: