AfriPop (www.afripop.org) dataset details
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DATASET: Alpha version 2010, 2014, and 2015 estimates of numbers of people per grid square, with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/) and 2010 and 2015 stimates of numbers of people per grid square remaining unadjusted.
REGION: Africa
SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.00833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator)
PROJECTION: Geographic, WGS84
UNITS: Estimated persons per grid square
MAPPING APPROACH: Land cover based, as described in: Linard, C., Gilbert, M., Snow, R.W., Noor, A.M. and Tatem, A.J., 2012, Population distribution, settlement patterns and accessibility across Africa in 2010, PLoS ONE,  7(2): e31743. 
FORMAT: Geotiff (zipped using 7-zip (open access tool): www.7-zip.org)
FILENAMES: Example - AGO10adjv4.tif = Angola (AGO) population count map for 2010 (10) adjusted to match UN national estimates (adj), version 4 (v4). Population maps are updated to new versions when improved census or other input data become available.
DATE OF PRODUCTION: January 2013

Dataset construction details and input data are provided here: www.afripop.org and here: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0031743

