WorldPop dataset details
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DATASET: Alpha version 2015 and 2020 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 remaining unadjusted.
REGION: Eurasia
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS 84
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 - UKR_ppp_v2b_2020_UNadj.tif = Ukraine (UKR) population per pixel (ppp) modelling version '2b' (v2b) map for 2020 (2020) adjusted to match UN national estimates (UNadj).
DATE OF PRODUCTION: March 2014

Also included: (i) Metadata html file, (ii) Population datasets produced using original census year data (2012).