Esri

Esri

Esri produces a globally consistent weighted dasymetric estimate of the footprint of human settlement (Settlement score), and apportions population from the most recent and most detailed levels of census or population estimate geography to this footprint to create the World Population Estimate datasets.

ArcGIS Image Services*:

• World Population Estimate 2013
• World Population Estimated 2015
• World Population Estimated Density 2015
• World Population Estimate 2016
• World Population Estimate Density 2016
• World Settlement Score 2016
• World Population Estimate Confidence 2016

Supporting Content:

• Frye, C. et al., (2018). Using Classified and Unclassified Land Cover Data to Estimate the Footprint of Human Settlement. Data Science Journal. 17, p.20. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2018-020
• World Population Estimate 2016 Sources Web Map
• 2016 Methodology White Paper

*Available to all ArcGIS users (requires being signed in with an ArcGIS Online subscription).