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West Africa Coastal Vulnerability Mapping: GPW Version 4 Population Density, Preliminary Release 1, 2010

Metadata Updated: August 22, 2025

The West Africa Coastal Vulnerability Mapping: GPW Version 4 Population Density, Preliminary Release 1, 2010, represents the number of persons per square kilometer, and was calculated by dividing an unreleased working version of the Gridded Population of the World (GPW), Version 4, year 2010 population count raster for the West Africa region by a land area raster and cropping the result to within 200 kilometers of the coast. GPW provides globally consistent and spatially explicit human population information and data for use in research, policy making, and communications. This is a gridded (raster) data product that renders global population data at the scale and extent required to demonstrate the spatial relationship of human populations and the environment across the globe. The gridded data set is constructed from national or subnational input Units (usually administrative Units) of varying resolutions. The native grid cell resolution of GPWv4 is 30 arc-second, or ~1 km at the equator.

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/H4F769H4
https://doi.org/10.7927/H45T3HFZ
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4222RQJ
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4X9287N
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4SJ1HHX
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4DB7ZR7
https://doi.org/10.7927/H48K7719
https://doi.org/10.7927/H44T6G9K
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4125QK5
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4W95738
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4RJ4GCJ
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4MS3QP8
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4H41PCK
https://doi.org/10.7927/H49K485P
https://doi.org/10.7927/H4K0726D
http://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4042561
https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2015.1014272

Dates

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

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

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Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date August 22, 2025
Publisher SEDAC
Maintainer
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Data First Published 2018-12-06
Language en-US
Data Last Modified 2025-07-17
Category WACVM, geospatial
Public Access Level public
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Metadata Type geospatial
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Program Code 026:001
Related Documents https://doi.org/10.7927/H4F769H4, https://doi.org/10.7927/H45T3HFZ, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4222RQJ, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4X9287N, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4SJ1HHX, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4DB7ZR7, https://doi.org/10.7927/H48K7719, https://doi.org/10.7927/H44T6G9K, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4125QK5, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4W95738, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4RJ4GCJ, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4MS3QP8, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4H41PCK, https://doi.org/10.7927/H49K485P, https://doi.org/10.7927/H4K0726D, http://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi4042561, https://doi.org/10.1080/23754931.2015.1014272
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Temporal 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z/2010-12-31T00:00:00Z

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