WorldPop Africa dataset details
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DATASET: Alpha version 2010, 2015 and 2020 estimates of numbers of people per pixel ('ppp') with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/).
REGION: Africa
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84
UNITS: Estimated persons per grid square
MAPPING APPROACH: Random Forest
FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)
FILENAMES: Example - DZA_ppp_v2b_2010_UNadj.tif = Algeria (DZA) population per pixel (ppp) map for 2010 (2010) adjusted to match UN national estimates (UNadj), version 2b (v2b)
DATE OF PRODUCTION: April 2015

Also included: (i) Metadata html file, (ii) Google Earth file, (iii) Population datasets produced using original census year data