Following the IIEP-UNESCO methodology (
unesdoc.unesco.org) for reconstructing georeferenced school-age populations (ISCED 1 to 3;
data.uis.unesco.org) by year and sex, these datasets were produced by WorldPop (University of Southampton) by applying the Sprague Multipliers to 30-arcsecond gridded datasets depicting the estimated spatial distribution of sex-disaggregated 5-year age groups in countries and dependent territories in Africa in 2020 (
worldpop.org).