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Continent of Africa: High Resolution Population Density Maps

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Continent of Africa: High Resolution Population Density Maps
Description
This zip file contains 28 cloud optimized tiff files that cover the continent of Africa. Each of the 28 files represents a region or area - these are not divided by country. Notes: * The country-by-country files that were previously hosted here have been moved into separate datasets. You can find all of them [here](https://data.humdata.org/search?organization=facebook&q=%22High%20Resolution%20Population%20Density%20Maps%20%2B%20Demographic%20Estimates%22). * South Sudan, Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia are intentionally omitted from this dataset. However, a country-level dataset for Ethiopia can be found [here](https://data.humdata.org/dataset/ethiopia-high-resolution-population-density-maps-demographic-estimates). * These 28 tiff files represent 2015 population estimates. However, please note that many of the country-level files include 2020 population estimates including: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, The Gambia, Ghana, Lesotho, Liberia, Mozambique, Namibia, Sao Tome & Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Togo, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Creator
Data for Good at Meta
Publisher
The Centre for Humanitarian Data
Temporal Coverage
2018-10-01 to 2019-04-08
Date Issued
2019-04-08
License
http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
Access Rights
Public
Date Added
December 19, 2023
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2025-08-23.

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    Data for Good at Meta (2019). Continent of Africa: High Resolution Population Density Maps. The Centre for Humanitarian Data. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/dbd7b22d-7426-4eb0-b3c4-faa29a87f44b (dataset)
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