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AfriPop (www.afripop.org) dataset details_______________________DATASET: Alpha version 2010 and 2014 estimates of numbers of people per grid square, with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/).REGION: AfricaSPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.00833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84UNITS: Estimated persons per grid squareMAPPING APPROACH: Land cover based, as described in: Linard, C., Gilbert, M., Snow, R.W., Noor, A.M. and Tatem, A.J., 2012, Population distribution, settlement patterns and accessibility across Africa in 2010, PLoS ONE, 7(2): e31743. FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)FILENAMES: Example - AGO10adjv4.tif = Angola (AGO) population count map for 2010 (10) adjusted to match UN national estimates (adj), version 4 (v4). Population maps are updated to new versions when improved census or other input data become available.DATE OF PRODUCTION: January 2013Dataset construction details and input data are provided here: www.afripop.org and here: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0031743
WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton). 2013. Guinea-Bissau 100m Population. Alpha version 2010 and 2014 estimates of numbers of people per grid square, with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/). DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/WP00108