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Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density Adjusted to Match 2015 Revision UN WPP Country Totals, Revision 11

Metadata Updated: August 22, 2025

The Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density Adjusted to Match 2015 Revision of UN WPP Country Totals, Revision 11 consists of estimates of human population density (number of persons per square kilometer) based on counts consistent with national censuses and population registers with respect to relative spatial distribution, but adjusted to match the 2015 Revision of the United Nation's World Population Prospects (UN WPP) country totals, for the years 2000, 2005, 2011, 2015, and 2020. A proportional allocation gridding algorithm, utilizing approximately 13.5 million national and sub-national administrative Units, was used to assign UN WPP-adjusted population counts to 30 arc-second grid cells. The density rasters were created by dividing the UN WPP-adjusted population count raster for a given target year by the land area raster. 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 adjusted count data were aggregated to 2.5 arc-minute, 15 arc-minute, 30 arc-minute and 1 degree resolutions to produce density rasters at these 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/10.1080/23754931.2015.1014272
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4BC3WMT
https://doi.org/10.7927/H42Z13KG
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
https://doi.org/10.7927/H49884ZR

Dates

Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date August 22, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date August 22, 2025
Publisher SEDAC
Maintainer
Identifier C1597159820-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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Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 1c879bbe-20b7-41f6-961a-7efc8460171b
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/10.1080/23754931.2015.1014272, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4BC3WMT, https://doi.org/10.7927/H42Z13KG, 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, https://doi.org/10.7927/H49884ZR
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash a7ed02537a40a7b23474d194614ffe0e7b498d8ccc5f04892bd9278f7f07c160
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial
Temporal 2000-07-01T00:00:00Z/2020-07-01T00:00:00Z

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