WorldPop (formerly AsiaPop) dataset details 
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DATASET: Alpha version 2010 and 2015 estimates of numbers of people per grid square, with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/) and remaining unadjusted. 
REGION: Asia 
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator) 
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84 
UNITS: Estimated persons per grid square 
MAPPING APPROACH: Land cover based, as described in: Gaughan AE, Stevens FR, Linard C, Jia P and Tatem AJ, 2013, High resolution population distribution maps for Southeast Asia in 2010 and 2015, PLoS ONE, 8(2): e55882 
FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org) 
FILENAMES: Example - popmap10adj.tif = population count map for 2010 (popmap10) adjusted to match UN national estimates (adj). 
DATE OF PRODUCTION: January 2013 

Dataset construction details and input data are provided here: www.worldpop.org.uk and here: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0055882