Population

  1. WorldPop: High-resolution, contemporary data on population across Africa, Asia and Central/Southern America.
  2. Global Urban Extent: Maps showing urban extent across the world, at 500m resolution, derived from MODIS images.
  3. Gridded Population of the World : Includes raw population, population density, both historic, current and predicted.
  4. Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project : Based on the above, but includes information on rural and urban population balances.
  5. WorldPop : High-resolution, contemporary data on population across Africa, Asia and Central/Southern America. Combines the AfriPop, AmeriPop and AsiaPop projects.
  6. Large Urban Areas 1950-2050 : Historic, current and future estimates of populations in large urban areas of the world.
  7. Global Urban Extent : Maps showing urban extent across the world, at 500m resolution, derived from MODIS images. Requires email to author to download
  8. GeoHive : Population and country statistics. Not provided in GIS data formats, but can easily be converted from CSV