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Myanmar - Estimated Population Layers (2016)

Estimated population layers: Alpha version 2010, 2015 and 2020 estimates of numbers of people per pixel ('ppp') and people per hectare ('pph'), with national totals adjusted to match UN population division estimates (http://esa.un.org/wpp/) and remaining unadjusted.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Dataset topic category
  • Demographics
  • Population
Language
  • English
Dataset reference date March 17, 2017
GeoNames
  • Myanmar
Process Step SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 0.000833333 decimal degrees (approx 100m at the equator) UNITS: Estimated persons per grid square MAPPING APPROACH: Random Forest
Lineage http://www.worldpop.org.uk/data/summary/?contselect=Asia&countselect=Myanmar&typeselect=Population
Responsible party worldpop.org.uk
Metadata creator information Metadata: http://www.worldpop.org.uk/data/WorldPop_data/AllContinents/MMR-POP_metadata.html
License Creative Commons Attribution
Copyright To be determined
Version 1.0
Date uploaded September 3, 2017, 12:42 (UTC)
Date modified December 29, 2019, 18:33 (UTC)