Historical Urban Population: 3700 BC - AD 2000

Description

The Historical Urban Population, 3700 BC - AD 2000, originally developed by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, is the first spatially explicit global data set containing location and size of urban populations over the last 6,000 years. The data set was created by digitizing, transcribing, and geocoding historical, archaeological, and census-based urban population data. Each data point consists of a city name, latitude, longitude, year, population, and a reliability ranking to assess the geographic uncertainty of each data point. Despite spatial and temporal gaps, no other geocoded data set at this resolution exists. It can therefore be used to investigate long-term historical urbanization trends and patterns, evaluate the current era of urbanization, and build a richer record of urban population through history.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Data Set Overview Page https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/urbanspatial-hist-urban-pop-3700bc-ad2000
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.7927%2FH4ZG6QBX
22 Sample browse graphic of the data set. https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/downloads/maps/urbanspatial/urbanspatial-hist-urban-pop-3700bc-ad2000/urbanspatial-hist-urban-pop-3700bc-ad2000-number-records-thumbnail.jpg
21 Data Download Page https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/urbanspatial-hist-urban-pop-3700bc-ad2000/data-download
21 Maps Download Page https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/urbanspatial-hist-urban-pop-3700bc-ad2000/maps
21 Documentation Page https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/urbanspatial-hist-urban-pop-3700bc-ad2000/docs

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  • population
  • human-dimensions
  • earth-science

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