Name: GHSL World Urbanisation Prospects projected gridded population estimates (GHS-WUP-POP)
License: GHSL data are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

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Description

Spatially explicit, gridded projections of human population from 1975 to 2100 at 1 km spatial resolution, reported as persons per sqkm in 5-year intervals. Residential population estimates between 1975 and 2020 are derived from raw global census data harmonized by CIESIN for the Gridded Population of the World (GPWv4.11) dataset, combined with population trends obtained from the urban agglomeration time series of the UN World Urbanisation Prospects 2018 (UN WUP 2018 – F22). The population projections for 2025 to 2100 are computed according to the 2000-2020 local growth rates in subnational functional areas converging to the projected national growth rates for 2100 (UN World Population Prospects, 2024) and are downscaled to 1-km grid cells using the CRISP methodology.

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License

GHSL data are provided under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Documentation

https://human-settlement.emergency.copernicus.eu/ghs_wup_pop_r2025a.php

Managed By

JRC

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Contact

JRC-GHSL-DATA@ec.europa.eu

How to Cite

GHSL World Urbanisation Prospects projected gridded population estimates (GHS-WUP-POP) was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/ghs-wup-pop.

Usage Examples

Tutorials

Get To Know A Dataset: GHS WUP POP by MAFFENINI Luca

Tools & Applications

Raster data visualization by TOMMASI Pierpaolo, MAFFENINI Luca

Publications

GHSL WUP Projections Data Package 2025 by SCHIAVINA Marcello, MELCHIORRI Michele, MARI RIVERO Ines, FLORIO Pietro, FREIRE Sergio, JACOBS-CRISIONI Chris, MAFFENINI Luca, POLITIS Panagiotis, UHL Johannes H., CARIOLI Alessandra, PESARESI Martino, DIJKSTRA Lewis, KEMPER Thomas
Introducing the CRISP model to downscale future population projections by JACOBS-CRISIONI Chris, SCHIAVINA Marcello, KRASNODEBSKA Katarzyna, DIJKSTRA Lewis, CLAASSENS Jip, HILFERINK Maarten, VAN DER WIELEN Thijmen, KOOMEN Eric
Population by degree of urbanization and by urban agglomeration from 1950 to 2100 by JACOBS-CRISIONI Chris, SCHIAVINA Marcello, ALESSANDRINI Alfredo, DIJKSTRA Lewis

Resources on AWS

Description

Gridded datasets in World Mollweide projection (EPSG:54009) at 1 km spatial resolution; also available in WGS 1984 (EPSG:4326) at 30 arcsecond spatial resolution, globally from 1975 to 2100 in 5-year steps. Grid cell values represent the projected distribution of human population, in number of persons per cell.

Resource type

S3 Bucket

Amazon Resource Name (ARN)

arn:aws:s3:::jrc-ghsl/ghs-wup-pop

AWS Region

eu-central-1

AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)

aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://jrc-ghsl/ghs-wup-pop/

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Resource type

SNS Topic

Amazon Resource Name (ARN)

arn:aws:sns:eu-central-1:291461994469:jrc-ghsl-object_created

AWS Region

eu-central-1