Geodata and statistics / Humanitarian Data Exchange

Bottom-up gridded population estimates for Nigeria, version 1.2

This data release includes gridded population estimates (~100 m grid cells) with national coverage for Nigeria, along with estimates of the number of people belonging to individual age-sex groups. These population estimates represent the time period 2016 to 2017 corresponding to when the household surveys were conducted. Populations were mapped into areas where residential settlements were detected based on satellite imagery mostly from 2014. The data were produced by the [WorldPop](https://www.worldpop.org/) Research Group at the University of Southampton. This work was part of the [GRID3 ](h…