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Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Data Quality Indicators, Revision 11

Metadata Updated: August 23, 2025

The Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Data Quality Indicators, Revision 11 consists of three data layers created to provide context for the population count and density rasters, and explicit information on the spatial precision of the input boundary data. The Data Context raster explains pixels with a "0" population estimate in the population count and density rasters based on information included in the census documents, such as areas that are part of a national park, areas that have no households, etc. The Water Mask raster distinguishes between pixels that are completely water and/or ice (Total Water Pixels), pixels that contain water and land (Partial Water Pixels), pixels that are completely land (Total Land Pixels), and pixels that are completely ocean water (Ocean Pixels). The Mean Administrative Unit Area raster represents the mean input Unit size in square kilometers and provides a quantitative surface that indicates the size of the input Unit(s) from which population count and density rasters are created. The data files were produced as global rasters at 30 arc-second (~1 km at the equator) resolution. To enable faster global processing, and in support of research commUnities, the 30 arc-second data were aggregated to 2.5 arc-minute, 15 arc-minute, 30 arc-minute and 1 degree resolutions.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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References

https://doi.org/10.7927/H49C6VBN
https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2015.1014272
https://doi.org/10.7927/H42R3PN3
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4BC3WMT
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4Z60M4Z
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4TD9VDP
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4JW8BX5
https://doi.org/10.7927/H49C6VHW
https://doi.org/10.7927/H45Q4T5F
https://doi.org/10.7927/H46M34XX
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4PN93PB
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4F47M65

Dates

Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025
Publisher SEDAC
Maintainer
Identifier C1597149689-SEDAC
Data First Published 2018-12-31
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-07-17
Category GPW, geospatial
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Metadata Type geospatial
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Program Code 026:001
Related Documents https://doi.org/10.7927/H49C6VBN, https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2015.1014272, https://doi.org/10.7927/H42R3PN3, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4BC3WMT, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4Z60M4Z, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4TD9VDP, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4JW8BX5, https://doi.org/10.7927/H49C6VHW, https://doi.org/10.7927/H45Q4T5F, https://doi.org/10.7927/H46M34XX, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4PN93PB, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4F47M65
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 06ff718309d8ea9399841a270b7f6cde7e41e238936c40401a2db281c95e88ef
Source Schema Version 1.1
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Temporal 2010-07-01T00:00:00Z/2010-07-01T00:00:00Z

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