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popgrids

This dataset consists 0.5 × 0.5 degree grids of:

1. Global population and GDP estimations for years 1980-2010 created by downscaling actual populations and GDPs by country, and
2. Global population and GDP projections for years 2020-2100 created by downscaling projected populations and GDPs under three shared socioeconomic pathways (SSP): SSP1; SSP2; and SSP3.

The dataset is modified Global dataset of gridded population and GDP scenarios, version 3. While the original dataset is a shapefile of 0.5 × 0.5 degree grids masked by countries, the new one contains a regular grid in form of raster objects.

Code used to create this data is at https://github.com/Nowosad/global_population_and_gdp.

Installation

Get the development version from github:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("Nowosad/popgrids")

Examples

library(popgrids)
library(sp)
library(raster)

Population estimation for 2010

plot(pop_grid, "p_2010")

GDPs projections for 2100 (pathway SSP3)

plot(gdp_grid, "g3_2100")

References

• Original data source: http://www.cger.nies.go.jp/gcp/population-and-gdp.html
• Murakami, D. and Yamagata, Y. (2016) Estimation of gridded population and GDP scenarios with spatially explicit statistical downscaling, ArXiv, 1610.09041, URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09041.