 High resolution, contemporary data on human population distributions are a prerequisite for the accurate measurement of the impacts of population growth, for monitoring changes and for planning interventions. The AfriPop project was initiated in July 2009 with an aim of producing detailed and freely-available population distribution maps for the whole of Africa.
>Home >Project details >Data >Methods >Publications >Contact/Acknowledgements  Large area spatial demographic datasets that provide per-grid square estimates of numbers of people are widely available through a range of projects, including AfriPop, but similar information on the demographic composition of these populations at a subnational scale are not freely available. AfriPop:demography aims to fill this gap for Africa through the provision of detailed gridded spatial population datasets showing age composition by 5-year groupings and gender.
 Three-dimensional representation of 100m spatial resolution alpha version 2009 population maps for East Africa. Close-ups of actual data shown for (a) Bujumbura, (b) Kigali, (c) Kampala, (d) Nairobi and (e) Dar Es Salaam
23rd March 2013:New Africa-wide total population distribution datasets at 1km resolution available for download, incorporating all recent country dataset updates. 27th February 2013: Updated datasets for Angola and Rwanda now available for download. 18th February 2013: Updated datasets for Burundi, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe now available for download. 18th October 2012: New publication in Science. 18th October 2012: Africa-wide population distribution maps datasets by 5-year age groupings now available. 2nd July 2012: Follow us on Twitter for dataset update notifications 2nd July 2012: Updated Central African Republic dataset available 3rd April 2012: New Rwanda and Botswana datasets added and new publication available 23rd February 2012: AfriPop alpha datasets updated and new publication available. 11th January 2012: AfriPop: demography under-5 and women of childbearing age data available 15th December 2011: Updated versions of all AfriPop alpha datasets now available 26th August 2011: Updated and improved maps are being added over the coming weeks 1st July 2011: AfriPop becomes an associate partner of The Human Mobility Mapping Project (THuMMP) 15th June 2011: AfriPop correspondence in Nature 20th May 2011: Zambia map updated with 2010 census data 25th April 2011: 2010 Alpha version mapping complete and available for download.  18th April 2011: Coming soon, AsiaPop 16th February 2011: North Africa maps coming soon. 19th September 2010: 100m spatial resolution alpha version population map for Somalia available for download. 13th July 2010: AfriPop endorsed by the Global Land Project 30th June 2010: Alpha version population distribution datasets complete for all sub-Saharan Africa countries and available for download soon: 
28th June 2010: 100m spatial resolution alpha version population map for Liberia constructed and available for download soon 23rd June 2010: 100m spatial resolution alpha version population maps for Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea constructed and available for download soon 18th June 2010: 100m spatial resolution alpha version population maps for Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon and Sierra Leone constructed and available for download soon 17th June 2010: 100m spatial resolution alpha version population maps for Guinea, Niger, Mauritania and the Gambia constructed and available for download soon 16th June 2010: 100m spatial resolution alpha version population map for Nigeria constructed and available for download soon 15th June 2010: 100m spatial resolution alpha version population maps for Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo and Benin constructed and available for download soon 14th June 2010: 100m spatial resolution alpha version population maps for Sudan, Central African Republic and Madagascar constructed and available for download soon 9th June 2010: 100m spatial resolution alpha version population maps for Ethiopia and Djibouti constructed and available for download soon 7th June 2010: 100m spatial resolution alpha version population map for Lesotho constructed and available for download soon 4th June 2010: 100m spatial resolution alpha version population maps for Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland constructed and available for download soon 3rd June 2010: 100m spatial resolution alpha version population maps for Angola, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe constructed and available for download soon 27th April 2010: 100m spatial resolution alpha version population map for Namibia constructed and available for download soon 5th April 2010: 100m spatial resolution alpha version population map for Eritrea constructed and available for download soon 15th March 2010: 100m spatial resolution alpha version population map for Somalia constructed and available for download soon 18th August 2009: 100m spatial resolution alpha version 2009 population maps for Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda available for download.
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