High Resolution Population Density Maps for India and Pakistan

Facebook and Columbia University CIESIN provide the High Resolution Settlement Layer as population datasets. The distribution of human population spans Pakistan and India, represented in 13 TIFF files as 10 x 10 degree tiles. The dataset was last updated on 2026-06-03.

Use Cases

• Analyze population distribution patterns based on high-resolution settlement data
• Model human settlement density for infrastructure planning based on geographic tiles
• Integrate population maps with other geospatial layers for regional analysis

Strengths

• Dataset comprises 13 TIFF files covering a specific geographic region
• Files are organized as 10 x 10 degree tiles with coordinates in the file names
• License is clearly stated as CC-BY-4.0

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

AI for Good at Meta (Facebook) and Columbia University - CIESIN

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-03 15:39:06.654536; freshness should be verified

Geography

Pakistan and India