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Dataset details: Qatar 1km Births
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DATASET: Version 1.0 2015 estimates of numbers of live births per grid square, with national totals adjusted to match UN national estimates on numbers of live births (http://esa.un.org/wpp/).
REGION: Asia
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.00833333 decimal degrees (approx 1km at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84
UNITS: Estimated births per grid square
MAPPING APPROACH: Integration of multiple data sources on population distribution, age structure and fertility rates to produce high-resolution maps detailing the number and distribution of live births.
FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)
FILENAMES: WorldPop naming convention applied; example AFG_births_pp_v2_2015.tif = Afghanistan (AFG, three-letter country code adhering to ISO 3166 standard) births per pixel (births_pp) dataset version 2 (v2) based on data for circa 2015.
WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton). 2018. Qatar 1km Births. Version 1.0 2015 estimates of numbers of live births per grid square, with national totals adjusted to match UN national estimates on numbers of live births (http://esa.un.org/wpp/). DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00574