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    • West Africa Coastal Vulnerability Mapping: Population Projections, 2030 and 2050

    Metadata Updated: April 24, 2025

    The West Africa Coastal Vulnerability Mapping: Population Projections, 2030 and 2050 data set is based on an unreleased working version of the Gridded Population of the World (GPW), Version 4, year 2010 population count raster but at a coarser 5 arc-minute resolution. Bryan Jones of Baruch College produced country-level projections based on the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 4 (SSP4). SSP4 reflects a divided world where cities that have relatively high standards of living, are attractive to internal and international migrants. In low income countries, rapidly growing rural populations live on shrinking areas of arable land due to both high population pressure and expansion of large-scale mechanized farming by international agricultural firms. This pressure induces large migration flow to the cities, contributing to fast urbanization, although urban areas do not provide many opportUnities for the poor and there is a massive expansion of slums and squatter settlements. This scenario may not be the most likely for the West Africa region, but it has internal coherence and is at least plausible.

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    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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    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/H4J10131
    https://doi.org/10.7927/H4DB7ZR7
    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

    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 24, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

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    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date April 24, 2025
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    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-23
    Category WACVM, geospatial
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    Temporal 2030-01-01T00:00:00Z/2050-01-01T00:00:00Z

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