High-resolution gridded population datasets for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2010, 2015, and 2020

Scientific Data

Volumn 2, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Sorichetta, Alessandro ^a   Hornby, Graeme M ^a   Stevens, Forrest R ^b   Gaughan, Andrea E ^b   Linard, Catherine ^c,d   Tatem, Andrew J ^a,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^d FNRS   (Belgium)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^f FLOWMINDER FOUNDATION   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARIBBEAN; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

CARIBBEAN REGION; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH PLANNING; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84952780639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20524463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2015.45     Document Type: Article

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