WorldPop Global Country Boundaries (v1)
DATASET: Version 1 WorldPop global country boundaries dataset
REGION: World
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.00833333 decimal degrees (approx. 1km at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS89
UNITS: pixel values = ISO 3166-1 numeric country code ID
MAPPING APPROACH: Rasterized and harmonised country boundary dataset with a spatial resolution of 30 arc seconds.
FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)
FILENAMES: Example – ‘WP_Grid_CCID_1km_v1.tif’ WorldPop global spatial grid providing country code ID (CCID) at 1km resolution, dataset version 1.
DATE OF PRODUCTION: Oct 2016
Region : World
DOI : 10.5258/SOTON/WP00530
Date of production : 2016-11-01
Recommended citation
WorldPop. 2017. WorldPop Global Country Boundaries. Version 1. University of Southampton. DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00530
Data Files :
WorldPop datasets are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This means that you are free to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) for any purpose, even commercially, provided attribution is included (appropriate credit and a link to the licence).
WorldPop datasets derived from OpenStreetMap, Microsoft Building Footprints or Microsoft Roads Detection are available under the Open Database License (ODbL). This means you are free to share the data, provided attribution is included (appropriate credit and a link to the license). If you alter or build upon the data, you may distribute the result only under the same ODbL license.
WorldPop datasets derived from OpenStreetMap, Microsoft Building Footprints or Microsoft Roads Detection are available under the Open Database License (ODbL). This means you are free to share the data, provided attribution is included (appropriate credit and a link to the license). If you alter or build upon the data, you may distribute the result only under the same ODbL license.