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The Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, 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, for the years 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020.�A proportional allocation gridding algorithm, utilizing approximately 13.5 million national and sub-national administrative Units, was used to assign population counts to 30 arc-second grid cells. The population density rasters were created by dividing the 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 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.

Product Summary

Platforms
MODELS
Instruments
Computer
Projects
GPW
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
0.008333 Decimal Degrees x 0.008333 Decimal Degrees
Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2000-07-01 ,
2005-07-01 ,
2010-07-01 ,
2015-07-01 ,
2020-07-01
Data Partner
Earth Science Data Information System (ESDIS)
Concept ID
C3540910651-ESDIS
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
54
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Population Density

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Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Center For International Earth Science Information Network-CIESIN-Columbia University. (2017). Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11 (Version 4.11) [Data set]. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H49C6VHW Date Accessed: 2026-06-09

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Societal attention to heat waves can indicate public health impacts Bogdanovich, Ekaterina, Guenther, Lars, Reichstein, Markus, Frank, Dorothea, Ruhrmann, Georg, Brenning, Alexander, Denissen, Jasper M. C., Orth, Rene Population Size, Population Density
Searching for predictors of the variability of impacts caused by non-native trees on regulating ecosystem services worldwide Romero-Blanco, Alberto, Castro-Diez, Pilar, Lazaro-Lobo, Adrian, Molina-Venegas, Rafael, Cruces, Paula, Pysek, Petr Population Density
Recent trends in the chemistry of major northern rivers signal widespread Arctic change Tank, Suzanne E., McClelland, James W., Spencer, Robert G. M., Shiklomanov, Alexander I., Suslova, Anya, Moatar, Florentina, Amon, Rainer M. W., Cooper, Lee W., Elias, Greg, Gordeev, Vyacheslav V., Guay, Christopher, Gurtovaya, Tatiana Yu., Kosmenko, Lyudmila S., Mutter, Edda A., Peterson, Bruce J., Peucker-Ehrenbrink, Bernhard, Raymond, Peter A., Schuster, Paul F., Scott, Lindsay, Staples, Robin, Striegl, Robert G., Tretiakov, Mikhail, Zhulidov, Alexander V., Zimov, Nikita, Zimov, Sergey, Holmes, Robert M. Population Density
Relationships Between 10 Years of Radar-Observed Supercell Characteristics and Hail Potential Homeyer, Cameron R., Murillo, Elisa M., Kumjian, Matthew R. Population Density
Spatio-temporal patterns and trends of the air pollution integrating MERRA-2 and in situ air quality data over Egypt (20132021) Masoud, Alaa A. Population Density, Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0)
Summer heatwaves, wind production and electricity demand in Southern Europe: climatic conditions and impacts Molina, M O, Gutierrez, C, Ortega, M, Sanchez, E Population Density
Substantial Differences in Compound Long-Duration Dry and Hot Events Over China Between Transient and Stabilized Warmer Worlds at 1.5C Global Warming Yang, Yi, Tang, Jianping Population Density
Spatiotemporal Ground Risk Mapping for Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Operations Pilko, Aliaksei, Sobester, Andras, Scanlan, James P., Ferraro, Mario Population Density
Spatiotemporal variation of air pollutants and their relationship with land surface temperature in Bengaluru, India Suthar, Gourav, Singhal, Rajat Prakash, Khandelwal, Sumit, Kaul, Nivedita Population Density
Trends in crowd accidents based on an analysis of press reports Feliciani, Claudio, Corbetta, Alessandro, Haghani, Milad, Nishinari, Katsuhiro Population Density
A data-augmentation approach to deriving long-term surface SO2 across Northern China: Implications for interpretable machine learning Zhang, Shifu, Mi, Tan, Wu, Qinhuizi, Luo, Yuzhou, Grieneisen, Michael L., Shi, Guangming, Yang, Fumo, Zhan, Yu Heat Flux, Air Temperature, Skin Temperature, Specific Humidity, Water Vapor, Precipitation Rate, Snow/Ice, Evaporation, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds, Wind Speed, U/V Wind Components, Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction, Surface Temperature, Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Atmospheric Winds, Surface Winds, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Altitude, Boundary Layer Winds, Aerosols, Aerosol Extinction, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness, Angstrom Exponent, Aerosol Particle Properties, Carbonaceous Aerosols, Dust/Ash/Smoke, Organic Particles, Sulfate Particles, Sulfur Oxides, Sulfur Compounds, Sulfate, Sulfur Dioxide, Sulfur Oxides, Particulate Matter, Dimethyl Sulfide, Black Carbon, Sea Salt, PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 2.5), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 1.0), PARTICULATE MATTER (PM 10), Population Density
A geostatistical approach to compare metal accumulation pattern by lichens in plain and mountainous regions of northern and central India Bajpai, Rajesh, Shukla, Vertika, Raju, Ashwani, Singh, Chandra Prakash, Upreti, Dalip Kumar Population Density
100 global bright spots of green growth: Co-occurrence of nighttime light gain and forest gain, 19902015 Busch, Jonah, Amarjargal, Oyut Population Density
A comprehensive evaluation of the use of Lagrangian particle dispersion models for inverse modeling of greenhouse gas emissions Vojta, Martin, Plach, Andreas, Thompson, Rona L., Stohl, Andreas Population Density
A comprehensive study of the COVID-19 impact on PM2. 5 levels over the contiguous United States: A deep learning approach Ghahremanloo, Masoud, Lops, Yannic, Choi, Yunsoo, Jung, Jia, Mousavinezhad, Seyedali, Hammond, Davyda Population Density, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
A Bayesian Fuzzy Clustering Approach for Design of Precipitation Gauge Network Using Merged Remote Sensing and Groundbased Precipitation Products Sreeparvathy, Vijay, Srinivas, V. V. Population Density, Precipitation, Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Rain
Animal tracing with sulfur isotopes: Spatial segregation and climate variability in Africa likely contribute to population trends of a migratory songbird Brlik, Vojtech, Prochazka, Petr, Hansson, Bengt, Stricker, Craig A., Yohannes, Elizabeth, Powell, Rebecca L., Wunder, Michael B. Population Density
AREAdata: A worldwide climate dataset averaged across spatial units at different scales through time Smith, Thomas P., Stemkovski, Michael, Koontz, Austin, Pearse, William D. Population Density
Analytical Hierarchy Process Tool in Google Earth Engine platform: A case study of a tropical landfill site suitability Bhattacharya, Soham, Ghosh, Surajit, Bhattacharyya, Soumya Population Density
Agricultural landscape change impact on the quality of land: An African continent-wide assessment in gained and displaced agricultural lands Akinyemi, Felicia O., Ifejika Speranza, Chinwe Population Density, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Crop/Plant Yields, Land Use Classes, Landscape Patterns, Cropland
Air quality trends in rural India: analysis of NO 2 pollution using satellite measurements Pathak, Mansi, Kuttippurath, Jayanarayanan Population Density, Nitrogen Dioxide
An Ubiquitous 2.6 GHz Radio Propagation Model for Wireless Networks Using Self-Supervised Learning From Satellite Images Sousa, Marco, Vieira, Pedro, Queluz, Maria Paula, Rodrigues, Antonio Population Density
A shift from cattle to camel and goat farming can sustain milk production with lower inputs and emissions in north sub-Saharan Africa's drylands Rahimi, Jaber, Fillol, Erwann, Mutua, John Y., Cinardi, Giuseppina, Robinson, Timothy P., Notenbaert, An M. O., Ericksen, Polly J., Graham, Michael W., Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus Population Density
Black carbon aerosol reductions during COVID-19 confinement quantified by aircraft measurements over Europe Kruger, Ovid O., Holanda, Bruna A., Chowdhury, Sourangsu, Pozzer, Andrea, Walter, David, Pohlker, Christopher, Andres Hernandez, Maria Dolores, Burrows, John P., Voigt, Christiane, Lelieveld, Jos, Quaas, Johannes, Poschl, Ulrich, Pohlker, Mira L. Population Density
Cash in the City D'Aoust, Olivia, Gunneman, Julius, Patel, Karishma V., Tassot, Caroline Population Density
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