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Latin American and Caribbean population database

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Latin American and Caribbean population database
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AF4KGI
 
Creator Hyman, Glenn Graham
Castano, Silvia-Elena
López, Rosalba
Cuero, Alexander
Nagles, Carlos
Barona Adarve, Elizabeth
Perez, Liliana
Jones, Peter
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The population of Latin America and the Caribbean increased from 175 million in 1950 to 515 million in 2000. Where did this growth occur? What is the magnitude of change in different places? How can we visualize the geographic dimensions of population change in Latin America and the Caribbean? We compiled census and other public domain information to analyze both temporal and geographic changes in population in the region. Our database includes population totals for over 18,300 administrative districts within Latin America and the Caribbean. Tabular census data was linked to an administrative division map of the region and handled in a geographic information system. We transformed vector population maps to raster surfaces to make the digital maps comparable with other commonly available geographic information. Validation and error-checking analyses were carried out to compare the database with other sources of population information. The digital population maps created in this project have been put in the public domain and can be downloaded from our website. The Latin America and Caribbean map is part of a larger multi-institutional effort to map population in developing countries. This is the third version of the Latin American and Caribbean population database and it contains new data from the 2000 round of censuses and new and improved accessibility surfaces for creating the raster maps.
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
poverty
poverty mapping
food security
GIS
small area estimation
Latin America and the Caribbean
Digital Inclusion
 
Language English
 
Date 2000
 
Contributor Alliance Data Management
 
Type Interpolated Data
Geospatial Data
Aggregate Data
Quantitative Data
Models
Socio-economic Data
Geographic Data