The spatial distribution of population in 2020 with country total adjusted to match the corresponding

UNPD estimate, Vietnam

Estimated total number of people per grid-cell. The dataset is available to download in Geotiff format at a
resolution of 3 arc (approximately 100m at the equator). The projection is Geographic Coordinate System,
WGS84. The units are number of people per pixel with country totals adjusted to match the corresponding
official United Nations population estimates that have been prepared by the Population Division of the
Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat (2019 Revision of World
Population Prospects). "NoData" values represent areas that were mapped as unsettled based on the outputs of
the Built-Settlement Growth Model (BSGM) developed by Jeremiah J.Nieves et al. 2020.

The mapping approach is the Random Forests-based dasymetric redistribution developed by Stevens et al. (2015)
. The disaggregation was done by Maksym Bondarenko (WorldPop) and David Kerr (WorldPop), using the
Random Forests population modelling R scripts (Bondarenko et al., 2020), with oversight from Alessandro
Sorichetta (WorldPop).

SOURCE DATA:

This dataset was produced based on the 2020 population census/projection-based estimates for 2020
(information and sources of the input population data can be found here).
Built-Settlement Growth Model (BSGM) outputs produced by Jeremiah J.Nieves et al. 2020.
Geospatial covariates representing factors related to population distribution, were obtained from the "
Global High Resolution Population Denominators Project" (OPP1134076).

REFERENCES:

- Stevens FR, Gaughan AE, Linard C, Tatem AJ (2015) Disaggregating Census Data for Population Mapping Using Random
Forests with Remotely-Sensed and Ancillary Data. PLoS ONE 10(2): e0107042. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0107042

- WorldPop (www.worldpop.org - School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton; Department
of Geography and Geosciences, University of Louisville; Departement de Geographie, Universite de Namur) and Center for
International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University (2018). Global High Resolution Population
Denominators Project - Funded by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1134076).

- Jeremiah J. Nieves, Alessandro Sorichetta, Catherine Linard, Maksym Bondarenko, Jessica E. Steele, Forrest R. Stevens,
Andrea E. Gaughan, Alessandra Carioli, Donna J. Clarke, Thomas Esch, Andrew J. Tatem, Annually modelling built-
settlements between remotely-sensed observations using relative changes in subnational populations and lights at night,
Computers, Environment and Urban Systems,Volume 80,2020,101444,ISSN 0198-
9715,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2019.101444

- Nieves, J.J.; Bondarenko, M.; Sorichetta, A.; Steele, J.E.; Kerr, D.; Carioli, A.; Stevens, F.R.; Gaughan, A.E.; Tatem, A.J.
Predicting Near-Future Built-Settlement Expansion Using Relative Changes in Small Area Populations. Remote Sens. 2020,
12, 1545.

- Bondarenko M., Nieves J. J., Stevens F. R., Gaughan A. E., Tatem A. and Sorichetta A. 2020. wpgpRFPMS: Random Forests
population modelling R scripts, version 0.1.0. University of Southampton: Southampton, UK.
https://dx.doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/WP00665

Region : Vietnam

DOI : 10.5258/SOTON/WP00685

Date of production : 2020-09-16

Recommended citation

Bondarenko M., Kerr D., Sorichetta A., and Tatem, A.J. 2020. Census/projection-disaggregated gridded
population datasets, adjusted to match the corresponding UNPD 2020 estimates, for 183 countries in 2020 using
Built-Settlement Growth Model (BSGM) outputs. WorldPop, University of Southampton, UK.
doi:10.5258/SOTON/WP00685

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