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WorldPop Americas dataset details_______________________DATASET: Alpha version 2010, 2015 and 2010 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: AmericasSPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84UNITS: Estimated persons per grid squareMAPPING APPROACH: Random ForestFORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)FILENAMES: Example - VNM_ppp_v2b_2010_UNadj.tif = Vietnam (VNM) population per pixel (ppp) map for 2010 (popmap10) adjusted to match UN national estimates (UNadj), version 2b (v2b)DATE OF PRODUCTION: April 2014Also included: (i) Metadata html file, (ii) Google Earth file, (iii) Population datasets produced using original census year data
WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton). 2016. Guatemala 100m Population. Alpha version 2010, 2015 and 2010 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. DOI: NULL