West Africa Coastal Vulnerability Mapping: Population Projections, 2030 and 2050

Description

The West Africa Coastal Vulnerability Mapping: Population Projections, 2030 and 2050 data set is based on an unreleased working version of the Gridded Population of the World (GPW), Version 4, year 2010 population count raster but at a coarser 5 arc-minute resolution. Bryan Jones of Baruch College produced country-level projections based on the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway 4 (SSP4). SSP4 reflects a divided world where cities that have relatively high standards of living, are attractive to internal and international migrants. In low income countries, rapidly growing rural populations live on shrinking areas of arable land due to both high population pressure and expansion of large-scale mechanized farming by international agricultural firms. This pressure induces large migration flow to the cities, contributing to fast urbanization, although urban areas do not provide many opportUnities for the poor and there is a massive expansion of slums and squatter settlements. This scenario may not be the most likely for the West Africa region, but it has internal coherence and is at least plausible.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.7927%2FH48K7719
21 Data Download Page https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/wacvm-population-projections-2030-2050/data-download
21 Documentation Page http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/wacvm-population-projections-2030-2050/docs
21 Data Set Overview Page https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/set/wacvm-population-projections-2030-2050
22 Sample browse graphic of the data set. https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/downloads/maps/wacvm/wacvm-population-projections-2030-2050/sedac-logo.jpg

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  • population
  • human-dimensions
  • earth-science

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