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Malawi 100m. Population
Malawi 100m Population

Dataset details: Malawi 100m Population
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DATASET: Version 2.0 estimates for numbers of people per grid cell for 2000, 2010, 2015 and 2020, with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/), and remaining unadjusted. Note, an additional dataset is included for the census year, on which 2000, 2010, 2015 and 2020 estimates are based.
REGION: Africa
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic WGS84 for people per pixel (ppp) datasets; local projection applied for people per hectare (pph) datasets
UNITS: Estimated persons per grid square
MAPPING APPROACH: Dasymetric modeling approach incorporating a Random Forest estimation technique (model version 2c), as described in: Stevens, F. R. et al. (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: WorldPop naming convention applied; example NPL_ppp_2010_adj_v2.tif = Nepal population per pixel (ppp) map for 2010 adjusted to match UN national estimates (adj), dataset version 2 (v2)
DATE OF PRODUCTION: Dec 2017

CITATION: WorldPop. 2017. Malawi 100m Population, Version 2. University of Southampton. DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00538.

Region : Malawi
DOI : 10.5258/SOTON/WP00538
Date of production : 2017-05-05
Recommended citation

WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton). 2017. Malawi 100m Population. Version 2.0 estimates for numbers of people per grid cell for 2000, 2010, 2015 and 2020, with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/), and remaining unadjusted. Note, an additional dataset is included for the census year, on which 2000, 2010, 2015 and 2020 estimates are based. DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00538

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