Census disaggregated gridded population estimates for Senegal (2020), version 1.0

These data were produced by the WorldPop Research Group at the University of Southampton. This work was part of the GRID3 project with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Kingdom’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (INV 009579, formerly OPP 1182425). Project partners included the United Nations Population Fund, Center for International Earth Science Information Network in the Earth Institute at Columbia University, and the Flowminder Foundation. Sarchil Qader (WorldPop) led the input processing and the modelling work following the Random Forest (RF)-based dasymetric mapping approach developed by Stevens et al. (2015). Thomas Abbott supported the covariates processing work and Chris Jochem advised on the modelling. The National Agency for Statistics and Demography (ANSD) of Senegal released the updated yearly census-based total population projection and population projection by sex (female and male) using the results of the 2013 census of population (population projection). In addition, the digital Commune boundaries and infrastructure points were shared by ANSD.