High-resolution gridded population datasets for Latin America and the Caribbean using official statistics.

ABSTRACT: "Leaving no one behind" is the fundamental objective of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Latin America and the Caribbean is marked by social inequalities, whilst its total population is projected to increase to almost 760 million by 2050. In this context, contemporary and spatially detailed datasets that accurately capture the distribution of residential population are critical to appropriately inform and support environmental, health, and developmental applications at subnational levels. Existing datasets are under-utilised by governments due to the non-alignment with their own statistics. Therefore, official statistics at the finest level of administrative units available have been implemented to construct an open-access repository of high-resolution gridded population datase

SUBMITTER: McKeen T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10328919 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature