Skip to content

Changes

View changes from to


On October 29, 2021 at 2:05:57 PM UTC, Gravatar Heiko Figgemeier:
  • Updated description of GPW Gridded Population of the World v4.0 from

    "The Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density Adjusted to Match 2015 Revision of UN WPP Country Totals, Revision 11 consists of estimates of human population density (number of persons per square kilometer) based on counts consistent with national censuses and population registers with respect to relative spatial distribution, but adjusted to match the 2015 Revision of the United Nation's World Population Prospects (UN WPP) country totals, for the years 2000, 2005, 2011, 2015, and 2020." <br> * Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC): https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/gpw-v4-population-density-rev11*
    to
    The Gridded Population of the World (GPW) collection models the distribution of human population on a continuous global raster surface. The essential inputs to GPW have been population census tables and corresponding geographic boundaries. The purpose of GPW is to provide a spatially disaggregated population layer that is compatible with data sets from social, economic, and Earth science disciplines, and remote sensing.