DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7813301
title: GlobPOP: A 33-year (1990-2022) global gridded population dataset generated by cluster analysis and statistical learning

description: Data Update Notice 数据更新通知

We are pleased to announce that the GlobPOP dataset for the years 2021-2022 has undergone a comprehensive quality check and has now been updated accordingly. Following the established methodology that ensures the high precision and reliability, these latest updates allow for even more comprehensive time-series analysis. The updated GlobPOP dataset remains available in GeoTIFF format for easy integration into your existing workflows.

2021-2022 年的 GlobPOP 数据集经过全面的质量检查,现已进行相应更新。 遵循确保高精度和可靠性的原有方法,本次更新允许进行更全面的时间序列分析。 更新后的 GlobPOP 数据集仍以 GeoTIFF 格式提供,以便轻松集成到您现有的工作流中。

To reflect these updates, our interactive web application has also been refreshed. Users can now explore the updated national population time-series curves from 1990 to 2022. This can be accessed via the same link: https://globpop.shinyapps.io/GlobPOP/. Thank you for your continued support of the GlobPOP, and we hope that the updated data will further enhance your research and policy analysis endeavors.

交互式网页反映了人口最新动态,用户现在可以探索感兴趣的国家1990 年至 2022 年人口时间序列曲线,并将其与人口普查数据进行比较。感谢您对 GlobPOP 的支持,我们希望更新的数据将进一步加强您的研究和政策分析工作。

If you encounter any issues, please contact us via email at lulingliu@mail.bnu.edu.cn. 

如果您遇到任何问题,请通过电子邮件联系我们。

Introduction

Continuously monitoring global population spatial dynamics is essential for implementing effective policies related to sustainable development, such as epidemiology, urban planning, and global inequality. 持续监测全球人口空间动态对于实施与可持续发展相关的有效政策至关重要,例如流行病学、城市规划和全球不平等。

Here, we present GlobPOP, a new continuous global gridded population product with a high-precision spatial resolution of 30 arcseconds from 1990 to 2022. Our data-fusion framework is based on cluster analysis and statistical learning approaches, which intends to fuse the existing five products(Global Human Settlements Layer Population (GHS-POP), Global Rural Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP), Gridded Population of the World Version 4 (GPWv4), LandScan Population datasets and WorldPop datasets to a new continuous global gridded population (GlobPOP). The temporal and spatial validation results demonstrate that the GlobPOP dataset is highly accurate.  GlobPOP是一套新的连续全球网格人口产品,时间跨度为从 1990 年到 2022 年,空间分辨率为 30 弧秒。数据生产融合框架基于聚类分析和统计学习方法,旨在融合现有的五个 产品(GHS-POP、GRUMP、GPWv4、LandScan和WorldPop)。时空验证结果表明GlobPOP 数据集高度准确。

With the availability of GlobPOP dataset in both population count and population density formats, researchers and policymakers can leverage our dataset to conduct time-series analysis of population and explore the spatial patterns of population development at various scales, ranging from national to city level. 通过人口计数和人口密度格式的 GlobPOP 数据集,研究人员和政策制定者可以利用该数据集对人口进行时间序列分析,并探索不同尺度的人口发展时空模式。

Data description

The product is produced in 30 arc-seconds resolution(approximately 1km in equator) and is made available in GeoTIFF format. There are two population formats, one is the 'Count'(Population count per grid) and another is the 'Density'(Population count per square kilometer each grid)

Each GeoTIFF filename has 5 fields that are separated by an underscore "_". A filename extension follows these fields. The fields are described below with the example filename:

GlobPOP_Count_30arc_1990_I32  

Field 1: GlobPOP(Global gridded population)Field 2: Pixel unit is population "Count" or population "Density"Field 3: Spatial resolution is 30 arc secondsField 4: Year "1990"Field 5: Data type is I32(Int 32) or F32(Float32)

More information

本数据相关论文已发表在Scientific Data,代码可在GitHub获取。

Please refer to the paper for detailed information: 

Liu, L., Cao, X., Li, S. et al. A 31-year (1990–2020) global gridded population dataset generated by cluster analysis and statistical learning. Sci Data 11, 124 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-02913-0.

The fully reproducible codes are publicly available at GitHub: https://github.com/lulingliu/GlobPOP.
description: This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42192584 and 42371334) and Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science and Beijing Engineering Research Center for Global Land Remote Sensing Products (Grant No. OF202316).