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Lesotho 100m Population

Domain:

geospatialsocioeconomic

Record type:

dataset
Creator:
Wor
Publisher:
University of Southampton
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DATASET: Alpha version 2010 and 2014 estimates of numbers of people per grid square, with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (esa.un.org). REGION: Africa SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.00833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator) PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84 UNITS: Estimated persons per grid square MAPPING 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 2013