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GMS database of large urban areas, 1950-2050 population estimates

This database represents the historic, current and future estimates and projections with number of inhabitants for the world's largest urban areas from 1950-2050. The data covers cities and other urban areas with more than 750,000 people.

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Additional Info

Field Value
Dataset topic category
  • Population
  • Population and censuses
Language
  • English
Use limitations This dataset is published under the Creative Commons 0 license - wavering all rights to this work, and it is free to share, adapt and modify the work without any conditions. We appreciate if you attribute Hugo Ahlenius, Nordpil and the http://nordpil.com website, if possible. To the extent possible under law, Hugo Ahlenius, Nordpil has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to World database of large urban areas, 1950-2050. This work is published from Sweden.
Dataset reference date January 19, 2016
GeoNames
  • Cambodia
  • China
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Myanmar
  • Thailand
  • Viet Nam
Process Step This dataset has not been edited in any way other than sub-setting (i.e.: clipping) area of interest. Additional information from source: Data was retrieved from World Urbanization Prospects: The 2007 Revision Population Database (online database), accessed June 8 2009. The population data was related to the ESRI Data & Maps 2008 cities dataset, where names matched, and coordinates for matching cities were retrieved using Hawhts' Tools. Cities not matched were researched using Google Earth and Wikipedia on June 9, 2009, most coordinates were retrieved from the coordinate pages on the latter sources (toolserver/geohack).
Lineage United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2014). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2014 Revision, CD-ROM Edition.
Responsible party For more information about the Population Division please contact the Office of the Director, Population Division, United Nations, 2 United Nations Plaza, Rm. DC2-1950, New York, NY 10017 USA, Telephone + 1-212-963-3209, Facsimile + 1-212-963-2147 population@un.org
License CC0-1.0
Copyright No
Version 1.0
Date uploaded January 19, 2016, 12:38 (UTC)
Date modified March 20, 2017, 13:40 (UTC)