WorldPop, open data for spatial demography

High resolution, contemporary data on human population distributions, their characteristics and changes over time are a prerequisite for the accurate measurement of the impacts of population growth, for monitoring changes and for planning interventions. WorldPop aims to meet these needs through the provision of detailed and open access spatial demographic datasets built using transparent approaches. The Scientific Data WorldPop collection brings together descriptor papers on these datasets and is introduced here.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Scientific Data

• Publication date

  2017-01-31

• Fields of study

  Geography, Computer Science, Environmental Science, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/sdata.2017.4PMID 28140397PMCID 5283060
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• High resolution global gridded data for use in population studies

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• Spatiotemporal patterns of population in mainland China, 1990 to 2010

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• Mapping internal connectivity through human migration in malaria endemic countries

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• Fine resolution mapping of population age-structures for health and development applications

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• High-resolution gridded population datasets for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2010, 2015, and 2020

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• Mapping the denominator: spatial demography in the measurement of progress.

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• Quantifying Global International Migration Flows

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• Dynamic population mapping using mobile phone data

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• Modelling spatial patterns of urban growth in Africa.

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• Millennium development health metrics: where do Africa’s children and women of childbearing age live?

  2013cited by this paper
• Acknowledgements

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